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《喜福会》跨文化交际讲解ppt

2.What is the expressive differences between Waverly/June’s dispute and Suyuan/Lindo’s flaunt? Why do they have such differences?
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Different Communication Style
American: express their feelings directly, communication depends on verbal messages. Listener should try to understand what people say, not how they behave
Case 1
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Questions:
1. What makes little Waverly unhappy and rebel against her mother? What did she say?
2. What is Lindo's idea of daughters? Why does she think so?
Emphasize common interests, conformity, cooperation and interdependence.
To consider themselves as individuals Expect people who are involved in a
who are responsible for their own
Individualism: refers to the tendency to focus on the needs of self as opposed to community and society.

《喜福会》跨文化交际讲解.ppt

2.What is the expressive differences between Waverly/June's dispute and Suyuan/Lindo's flaunt? Why do they have such differences?
Different Communication Style
Chinese: use indirect way to express one's feeling, speakers do not always express their meaning fully in words. Listener should try to understand other's meaning in context.
Case 3
Questions:
1.What do you think of Rich's behavior at dinner? Do Lindo and the other family members accept it? Can you guess their opinions on Rich? Why do they think so?
group relationship to have duties and
actions as well as for their destinies obligations to one another
Different Family Values
Chinese: most of the parents think that they have right to arrange their children's life and point out their mistakes, meanwhile, the children have obligation to take care of their parents well, it is necessary to obey parents' instructions.

喜福会英文背景及人物赏析

喜福会英文背景及人物赏析(总5页)--本页仅作为文档封面，使用时请直接删除即可----内页可以根据需求调整合适字体及大小--The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco, California who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game.In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nguyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass. The novel was also adapted into a play, by Susan Kim, which premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York. CharactersMothersSuyuan WooDuring the Second World War, Suyuan lives in China while her husband at the time served as an officer in Chungking (Chongqing). She starts the original Joy Luck Club with her three friends to cope with the war. There is little to eat, but they pretend it is a feast, and talk about their hopes for the future. On the day of the Japanese invasion, Suyuan leaves her house with nothing but a bag of clothes, a bag of food, and her twin baby daughters.During the long journey, Suyuan contracts such severe dysentery that she feels certain she will die. Fearing that a dead mother would doom her babies' chances of rescue, she reluctantly and emotionally leaves her daughters under a barren tree, together with all her belongings, along with a note asking anyone who might find the babies to care for them and contact the father. Suyuan then departs, expecting to die. However, she is rescued by a truck and finds out her husband has died. She later remarries, comes to America, forms a new Joy Luck Club with three other Chinese female immigrants she met at church, and gives birth to another daughter. But her abandonment of the twin girls haunts her for the rest of her life. After many years, Suyuan learns that the twins were adopted, but dies of a brain aneurysm before she can meet them. It is her American-born daughter Jing-mei who fulfills her long-cherished wish of reuniting with her elder twin half-sisters.As Suyuan dies before the novel begins, her history is told by Jing-mei, based on her knowledge of her mother's stories, anecdotes from her father, and what the other members of the Joy Luck Club tell her.An-Mei HsuAn-Mei is raised by her grandparents and other relatives during her early years in Ningbo after her widowed mother shocks the family by becoming a concubine to a middle-aged wealthy man after her first husband's death. This becomes a source of conflict for the young An-Mei, as her aunts and uncles deeply resent her mother for such a dishonorable act. They try to convince An-Mei that it is not fitting for her to live with her disgraced mother, who is now forbidden to enter the family home. An-Mei's mother, however, still wishes to be part of her daughter's life. After An-Mei's grandmother dies, An-mei moves out to live with her mother in the home of her mother's new husband, Wu-Tsing. An-Mei learns that her mother was coerced into being Wu-Tsing's concubine through the manipulations of his Second Wife, the favorite. This woman arranged for An-Mei's mother, still in mourning for her original husband, to be raped by Wu-Tsing. The stigma left An-Mei's mother with no choice but to marry Wu-Tsing and become his new but lowly Fourth Wife. She later lost her babyson to Second Wife, who claimed the boy as her own child to ensure her place in the household. Second Wife also tried to win over An-mei upon her arrival in Wu-Tsing's mansion, giving her a necklace made of "pearls" that her mother later revealed were actually glass beads by crushing one with her teacup. An-Mei's mother re-knots the necklace to hide the missing bead, but now An-Mei knows the truth about Second Wife's seeming generosity.Wu-Tsing is a highly superstitious man, and Second Wife takes advantage of this weakness by making false suicide attempts and threatening to haunt him as a ghost if he does not let her have her way. According to Chinese tradition, a person's soul comes back after three days to settle scores with the living. Wu-Tsing, therefore, is known to be afraid to face the ghost of an angry or scorned wife. After Second Wife fakes a suicide attempt to prevent An-Mei and her mother from getting their own small house, An-Mei's mother successfully commits suicide herself, eating tangyuan laced with lethal amounts of opium. She times her death so that her soul is due to return on the first day of the new year, a day when all debts must be settled lest the debtor suffer great misfortune. With this in mind, Wu-Tsing promises to treat his Fourth Wife's children, including An-Mei, as if they were his very own flesh and blood by an honored First Wife. When Second Wife attempts to disrupt this, An-Mei crushes the fake pearl necklace Second Wife gave her beneath her feet to show her awareness of all Second Wife's deception and to symbolize her new power over Second Wife, who now fears her and realizes the bad karma she has brought upon herself.An-Mei later immigrates to America, marries, and gives birth to seven children (four sons, three daughters). The youngest, a son named Bing, drowns at age four.Lindo JongLindo is a strong-willed woman, a trait that her daughter Waverly attributes to her having been born in the year of the Horse. When Lindo was only twelve, she was forced to move in with a neighbor's young son, Huang Tyan-yu, through the machinations of the village matchmaker. After some training for household duties through her in-laws, she and Tyan-yu married when she turned sixteen. She soon realized that her husband was just a little boy at heart and had no sexual interest in her. Lindo began to care for her husband as a brother, but her cruel mother-in-law expected Lindo to produce a grandson. She restricted most of Lindo's daily activities, eventually ordering her to remain on bed rest until she could conceive and deliver a child.Determined to escape this unfortunate situation, Lindo carefully observed the other people in the household and eventually formed a clever plan to escape her marriage without dishonoring herself or her family. She managed to trick her young husband's family into believing that he was actually fated to marry another girl who was already pregnant with his "spiritual child", and that her marriage to Huang Tyan Yu would only bring bad luck to the family. In reality, the girl in question was a mere servant in the household and indeed pregnant, but abandoned by her lover.Freed from her first marriage, Lindo decided to emigrate to America. She married a Chinese-American man named Tin Jong and has three children: sons Winston and Vincent, and daughter Waverly.Lindo experiences regret over losing some of her Chinese identity by living so long in America (she is treated like a tourist on a visit to China); however, she expresses concern that Waverly's American upbringing has formed a barrier between them.Ying-Ying "Betty" St. ClairFrom a young age, Ying-Ying is told by her wealthy and conservative family that Chinese girls should be meek and gentle. This is especially difficult for her, she feels, because she is a Tiger character. She begins to develop a passive personality and repress her feelings as she grows up in Wuxi. Ying-Ying marries a charismatic man named Lin Xiao, not out of love, but because she believed it was her fate. Her husband is revealed to be abusive and openly has extramarital relationships with other women.When Ying-Ying discovers she is pregnant, she gets an abortion and makes the decision to live with her relatives in a smaller city in China.After ten years, she moves to Shanghai and works in a clothing store, where she meets an American man named Clifford St. Clair. He falls in love with her, but Ying-Ying cannot express any strong emotion after her first marriage. He courts her for four years before she agrees to marry him after learning that Lin Xiao had died, which she takes as the proper sign to move on. She allows Clifford to control most aspects of her life, mistranslating her words and actions, and even changing her name to "Betty". Ying-Ying gives birth to her daughter, Lena, after moving to San Francisco with St. Clair. When Lena is around ten years old, Ying-Ying becomes pregnant a third time, but the baby boy is anencephalic and soon dies.Ying-Ying is horrified when she realizes that Lena, a Tiger like herself, has inherited or emulated her passive behaviors and trapped herself in a loveless marriage with a controlling husband. She finally resolves to call upon the more assertive qualities of her Tiger nature, to appeal to those qualities in Lena. She will tell Lena her story in the hope that she will be able to break free from the same passivity that ruined most of her young life back in China.DaughtersJing-Mei "June" WooJing-Mei has never fully understood her mother and seems directionless in life. During June's childhood, her mother used to tell her that she could be anything she wants; however, she particularly wanted her daughter to be gifted, a child star who amazes the world, like Ginny Tiu (seen briefly on television) or June's rival Waverly. At the beginning of the novel, June is chosen to replace her mother's seat in the Joy Luck Club after her mother's death. At the end of the novel, June is still trying to deal with her mother's death, and she visits China to see the twin half-sisters (Wang Chwun Yu and Wang Chwung Hwa) whom her mother had been forced to abandon when the Japanese attacked China.One critic[who] has suggested[1] that the reason for the communication gap between Jing-Mei and her mother, and between the other daughters and their mothers—a major theme of the novel—occurs because the mothers come from a high context culture and the Americanized daughters from a low context culture. The mothers believe that the daughters will intuitively understand their cryptic utterances, but the daughters don't understand them at all.Rose Hsu JordanRose is somewhat passive and is a bit of a perfectionist. She had an unsettling childhood experience when her youngest brother, Bing, drowned while she was supposed to be watching him, and his body was never recovered. Rose marries a doctor, Ted Jordan, who loves her but also wants to spite his snooty, racist mother. After a malpractice suit, Ted has a mid-life crisis and decides to leave Rose. Rose confides in her mother and An-mei tells her the story of her own childhood. When Ted comes for the divorce papers, Rose finds her voice and tells him that he can't just throw her out of his life, comparing herself to his garden, once so beloved, now unkempt and full of weeds. An-Mei tells her that Ted has been cheating on her, which Rose thinks is absurd, but she later discovers this to be true. She wants to hire a good lawyer and fight for possession of the house, which she eventually wins.Waverly JongWaverly is an independent-minded and intelligent woman, but is annoyed by her mother's constant criticism. Well into her adult life, she finds herself restrained by her subconscious fear of letting her mother down. During their childhood, June and Waverly become childhood rivals; their mothers constantly compared their daughter's development and accomplishments. Waverly was once agifted chess champion, but quit after feeling that her mother was using her daughter's talent to show off, taking credit for Waverly's wins. She has a daughter, Shoshana, from her first marriage with Marvin, and is currently engaged to her boyfriend Rich Shields.Lena St. ClairThroughout Lena's childhood, she gradually becomes her mother's voice and interprets her mother's Chinese words for others. Like her father Clifford, she translates Ying-ying's words to sound more pleasant than what Ying-ying actually says. Ying-ying has taught Lena to beware of consequences, to the extent that Lena visualizes disaster in the taking of any risk. Lena's husband, Harold, is also her boss. He takes the credit for Lena's business and design ideas. He demands financial "equality" in their marriage. Lena is an associate while Harold is a partner, so he has a larger salary than she does. However, he insists that all household expenses be divided equally between them. Harold believes that by making everything equal, they can make their love equal as well. Lena feels frustrated and powerless.Table of contentsFeathers from a Thousand Li Away"The Joy Luck Club," Jing-mei "June" Woo"Scar," An-Mei Hsu"The Red Candle," Lindo Jong"The Moon Lady," Ying-Ying St ClairThe Twenty-Six Malignant Gates"Rules of the Game," Waverly Jong"The Voice from the Wall," Lena St. Clair"Half and Half," Rose Hsu Jordan"Two Kinds," Jing-mei "June" WooAmerican Translation"Rice Husband," Lena St. Clair"Four Directions," Waverly Jong"Without Wood," Rose Hsu Jordan"Best Quality," Jing-mei "June" WooQueen Mother of the Western Skies"Magpies," An-mei Hsu"Waiting Between the Trees," Ying-Ying St. Clair"Double Face," Lindo Jong"A Pair of Tickets," Jing-mei "June" WooCriticismThough Amy Tan's book has been widely praised by critics, it has also been alleged by Chinese-American author Frank Chin that it perpetuates racist stereotypes.[2][3][4] Chinese-American director Wayne Wang was impressed with the story and created a film version of the novel.[5] References^ CUNY Brooklyn article^ Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake^ The Joy Luck Club^ Review: The Joy Luck Club^ "Asian images in film spotlight - The Joy Luck Club". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 3 July 2008.。

英文电影鉴赏——喜福会

USC Scripter Award 1994 USC Scripter Award (提名) 罗纳德·巴斯 USC Scripter Award (提名) 覃恩美
Casting Society of America, USA(Artios) 1994
Best Casting for Feature Film, Drama Heidi Levitt
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Obviously, the conflicts are caused by mothers’ and daughters’ generation gaps and growing backgrounds. The mothers grew up in China where there are many traditions and rules to follow. However, the daughters grew up in San Francisco and live in an American way. In another way, it is also conflicts between the two cultures. In China, parents are the symbol of power. In America, however, everyone is equal and parents encourage sense of independence

《喜福会》跨文化交际讲解 ppt课件

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《喜福会》跨文化交际讲解
1.What do you think of Rich’s behavior at dinner? Do Lindo and the other family members accept it? Can you guess their opinions on Rich? Why do they think so?
American: people advocates the freedom, equality and democracy. Parents let children to make choice themselves. Children have responsibility to their own action.
Case 1
《喜福会》跨文化交际讲解
1. What makes little Waverly unhappy and rebel against her mother? What did she say?
2. What is Lindo's idea of daughters? Why does she think so?
Personal happiness is ultimate goal
Collectivism
(Chinese)
Society as key element
Society’s prosperity is ultimate goal
Individuals are encouraged to improve Individual should resist personal
3. Do you think the argument between Linda and little Waverly would happen to ordinary Chinese mothers and daughters? Why or why not?

喜福会 The Joy luck club 剧情和影评(英文)

Plot（情节回顾）在电影开头有一段剧情，就是钢琴回忆那一段，我们在这里简要提一下：在小时候微莉总是下棋冠军而June却在钢琴竞赛中失利。

June以为从此他就不用弹琴了，谁知道。

然后她被迫去弹琴，June提到她希望是那个死去的双胞胎。

这样就好了但是母亲说：It’s too late to change母亲甲（林多阿姨LinDo）1、她五岁那年，在母亲、媒婆和大户人家的共同协商下，订给了这大户人家作媳妇。

她仍跟母亲住在一起，但从此母亲用着「你是别人家的人」来对待她.诸如提醒她：「别吃那么快，人家会不要你！」......处处不忘提醒着，她已不再是母亲家的人。

母亲说，不是不再爱她，只是不敢对已经不属于自己的人有任何奢望。

她越是长成亭亭玉立，母女俩越是经常泪眼婆娑、对看无语。

2、终于，到了她得要离去的日子。

送往婆家的前一天，母亲跟她说：「你耳朵比我大，将来一定比我有福气。

以后不管发生什么事，绝对不要忘了你自己是谁。

」次日清晨，婆家派人来接她。

父母全家行李都打包好了，只等把她送走，便立刻启程南下找生路去。

母亲说：「你已经够幸运的了。

」的意思是:的确，这种穷人家的女儿，多少是根本养不大、或者早就卖掉不知死活了呢！她好歹是跟着母亲，又正正当当被送进婆家的——虽然根本不知道自己到底是嫁给了谁！3、结婚那天，她披着红头纱等丈夫进来。

等待自己的命运的那一刻，她决定一辈子记住母亲跟她说的话：「永远不要忘记自己是谁！」她嫁给了比自己小很多的小男生，结婚当夜就拿蜥蜴吓她，他又正值讨厌女生的年龄，因此不准她睡床上。

但她后来因此糟了殃。

她在婆家的身份地位，是用肚皮里生不生的出儿子来决定的。

她无法让小男生对她有任何欲念，她当然不可能受孕，她因此被婆婆三天两头的打骂。

4、最后，她用了精明的伎俩，让自己脱身。

她无意间听到女仆跟拉车夫的对谈，知道这可怜的女仆从拉车夫受了孕，车夫却抵赖不认。

她便利用婆婆迷信祖宗的弱点，告诉婆婆整桩婚姻都是错的，是媒婆贪钱的结果，祖宗中意的媳妇是那女仆，而且还让她受了传宗接代的种。

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苏 (Su Yuan):
抗战时期被迫遗弃一对双胞胎女儿，到美国后再婚，她将所有希望放在女儿君身上，希望把她塑造成一个有别于自己能成为白人社会所接受的高雅女性。
君（June）:
反抗母亲的意志，强调自己的自由，与母亲的隔膜和误解持续多年。
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母亲的期望
“到了美国，我就要生个女儿，她会很像我。但在美国，她却无须仰仗丈夫鼻息度日。在美国，不会有人歧视她，因为，我会让她讲上一口流利漂亮的美式英语。她将应有尽有，不会烦恼不会忧愁。她会领略我的一番苦心，我要她成为一只比期望中还要好上一百倍的漂亮的天鹅！
遗传了母亲强势个性却彻底活在母亲的眼光中，为了顺从母意做了很多牺牲，她渴望能够自己决定人生和婚姻，并获得母亲的祝福与肯定。
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母亲乙（莺莺阿姨 Ying Ying）女儿乙（李娜 Lena）
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【除非他给你想要的爱与尊重，否则离开他】
莺莺（Ying-Ying）:
痛苦的婚姻让她对自我不断贬低和抹杀，沉默半生。当她面对女儿的不幸婚姻时，果断打破沉默。
罗丝（Rose）: 嫁入豪门后心甘情愿付
出和妥协，放弃深造的机会，甚至贬低自我，不再有主见，在婚姻中被丈夫忽略。听完母亲的故事，明白珍惜自己才会被人珍惜的道理后，重新肯定了自我价值，挽救了婚姻。
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母亲丁（苏 Su Yuan）女儿丁（君 June）
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【我对你没有期许，只有期盼，期盼你拥有更好的。】
李娜（Lena）:
试图以经济上的忍让与多付车换来丈夫的感情，在男权的威慑下失去了自尊和自信。在母亲开导中终于认清自我价值和对配偶的真正诉求。

喜福会

• 对于移居海外的人来说，一切都是不确定和有待探索的。由于跨越边境后的漂浮状态，使得他们能够更深刻地理解文化、身份和种族的建构型。由于旧身份的丧失和新身份的不确定，在少数文学中，对身份和共同体的重新想像始终是紧迫的。 • 少数族裔的身份建构不仅取决于他们自己的努力，还取决于移民国的态度。
• 霍尔认为, 在高语境文化中,人们有着类似的经历和信息渠道。长期稳定的交流使人们形成了对周围环境比较一致的反应。 • 因而,在处理大量日常事务时,他们往往不需要、也不希望得到过多的背景知识。在交谈中,无需过多的表达,双方就会心领神会,因为共同的背景知识和想象空间会帮助听者把说者含糊的意思拼凑起来。 • 在高语境文化中, 人们并不仅仅通过语言来表达意思,手势、空间的运用,甚至沉默都可以传递信息 , 他们认为“沉默比语言更有力” 。
• 新一代华人子女因为生活在与父母截然不同的文化环境里, 受着美国文化的熏陶, 平时读的是英文书籍, 而非孔子的经典,往往在思想上更倾向于接受美国文化与价值观。 • 然而, 无论华裔青年已经美国化到何种程度, 以白人为代表的主流社会依然把他们看作是少数民族, 是中国人。这使得新生代的华裔极易产生一种迷茫和身份危机:“我究竟是谁?”
• 因此，在这种环境中成长起来的华裔第二代，由于内外压力，他们认同的是宗主国文化，而故国的文化则是他们需要超越的对象，女儿们的最终结果就是: “事实上，除了她的头发和皮肤是中国式的外表，她的内部，全是美国制造的。” • 这也导致母女间的隔阂。在这一成长故事中，母女间的交流障碍实质上体现的是两种不同价值观的矛盾，女儿们不断试图超越和弃绝以母亲为代表的东方遗产，从而形成新的主体性。
• 华裔女作家任璧莲(Gish Jen)在一次接受采访中谈道:“这种对身份的追求是非常美国化的。在中国的人们不会探讨根的问题。你一旦开始思考身为爱尔兰裔美国人、非洲裔美国人或华裔美国人意味着什么时, 那你就是美国人了。” • 《喜福会》中女儿们一旦有了想做中国人的迫切愿望,这便表明她们已经非常美国化了,不再是中国人。” • 既然她们已经是美国人了 ,便不用担心被中国文化同化。她们渴求具有一定的中国气质 ,在某种程度上也反映了美国人对异域文化的向往。

英文版---喜福会影评

Analysis of the causes of the conflict between mother and daughter from the Cultural Perspective In "the Joy Luck Club"电影《喜福会》向我们讲述了中国母亲与美国女儿人之间沟通障碍以及她们在东方信仰与西方价值观及传统文化与现代文明之间的争执。

母亲与女儿的交流障碍不仅仅反映出两代人之间的隔阂，更反映出一种文化差异。

母亲代表的逐渐消失的传统文化，女儿代表的则是日益壮大的新型文化；母亲们坚守着特殊的国家文化，她们想要传授一些中国文化给女儿们，但却以女儿们没有满足她们的期望而失落不已。

然而，女儿们在妈妈们的期望与美国的现实中打转，最终接受了主流文化，并且嘲笑和丢弃了以她们妈妈为代表的非主流文化，在这一系列冲突的过程中，她们不断地寻求自我和社会地位，并且努力去继承她们的文化价值。

母亲们努力去调解她们“中国式的过去”和“美国当代”，而女儿们也试着寻找着自主与忠于文化遗产之间的平衡点。

The movie "the Joy Luck Club" tells us communication obstacles between Chinese mother and American daughter and their belief in eastern and Western values and the dispute of traditional culture and modern civilization. Communication barriers between the mother and the daughter reflects not only the gap between two generations, but also reflects a cultural difference. The mother on behalf of the gradual disappearance ofthe traditional culture, the daughter is the representative of the newculture growing; mothers hold special national culture, they want to teachsome Chinese culture to the girls, but because the girls do not meet their expectations and disappointed. However, the daughters between the mothers about expectationsand American reality, finally accepted the mainstream culture, and ridiculed andrejected the non mainstream culture to their mother as the representative. In this seriesof conflicts, they continue to seek self and social status, and work hardto inherit their cultural value. Mothers try to mediate their "the past of China type" and "America contemporary", while the daughters try looking for autonomy and loyal to the balance between cultural heritage.2．1个人主义与集体主义对比2.1 the contrast of individualism and collectivism个人、集体主义是衡量文化变化的重要标尺，为人与人交流之间的文化异同提供了一个强有力的解说性框架。

喜福会英文背景及人物赏析

The Joy Luck Club(1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco, California who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game.In 1993, the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, France Nguyen, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, Lisa Lu, and Vivian Wu. The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass. The novel was also adapted into a play, by Susan Kim, which premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York.CharactersMothersSuyuan WooDuring the Second World War, Suyuan lives in China while her husband at the time served as an officer in Chungking (Chongqing). She starts the original Joy Luck Club with her three friends to cope with the war. There is little to eat, but they pretend it is a feast, and talk about their hopes for the future. On the day of the Japanese invasion, Suyuan leaves her house with nothing but a bag of clothes, a bag of food, and her twin baby daughters.During the long journey, Suyuan contracts such severe dysentery that she feels certain she will die. Fearing that a dead mother would doom her babies' chances of rescue, she reluctantly and emotionally leaves her daughters under a barren tree, together with all her belongings, along with a note asking anyone who might find the babies to care for them and contact the father. Suyuan then departs, expecting to die. However, she is rescued by a truck and finds out her husband has died. She later remarries, comes to America, forms a new Joy Luck Club with three other Chinese female immigrants she met at church, and gives birth to another daughter. But her abandonment of the twin girls haunts her for the rest of her life. After many years, Suyuan learns that the twins were adopted, but dies of a brain aneurysm before she can meet them. It is her American-born daughter Jing-mei who fulfills her long-cherished wish of reuniting with her elder twin half-sisters. As Suyuan dies before the novel begins, her history is told by Jing-mei, based on her knowledge of her mother's stories, anecdotes from her father, and what the other members of the Joy Luck Club tell her.An-Mei HsuAn-Mei is raised by her grandparents and other relatives during her early years in Ningbo after her widowed mother shocks the family by becoming a concubine to a middle-aged wealthy man after her first husband's death. This becomes a source of conflict for the young An-Mei, as her aunts and uncles deeply resent her mother for such a dishonorable act. They try to convince An-Mei that it is not fitting for her to live with her disgraced mother, who is now forbidden to enter the family home. An-Mei's mother, however, still wishes to be part of her daughter's life. After An-Mei's grandmother dies, An-mei moves out to live with her mother in the home of her mother's new husband, Wu-Tsing.An-Mei learns that her mother was coerced into being Wu-Tsing's concubine through the manipulations of his Second Wife, the favorite. This woman arranged for An-Mei's mother, still in mourning for her original husband, to be raped by Wu-Tsing. The stigma left An-Mei's mother withno choice but to marry Wu-Tsing and become his new but lowly Fourth Wife. She later lost her baby son to Second Wife, who claimed the boy as her own child to ensure her place in the household. Second Wife also tried to win over An-mei upon her arrival in Wu-Tsing's mansion, giving her a necklace made of "pearls" that her mother later revealed were actually glass beads by crushing one with her teacup. An-Mei's mother re-knots the necklace to hide the missing bead, but now An-Mei knows the truth about Second Wife's seeming generosity.Wu-Tsing is a highly superstitious man, and Second Wife takes advantage of this weakness by making false suicide attempts and threatening to haunt him as a ghost if he does not let her have her way. According to Chinese tradition, a person's soul comes back after three days to settle scores with the living. Wu-Tsing, therefore, is known to be afraid to face the ghost of an angry or scorned wife. After Second Wife fakes a suicide attempt to prevent An-Mei and her mother from getting their own small house, An-Mei's mother successfully commits suicide herself, eating tangyuan laced with lethal amounts of opium. She times her death so that her soul is due to return on the first day of the new year, a day when all debts must be settled lest the debtor suffer great misfortune. With this in mind, Wu-Tsing promises to treat his Fourth Wife's children, including An-Mei, as if they were his very own flesh and blood by an honored First Wife. When Second Wife attempts to disrupt this, An-Mei crushes the fake pearl necklace Second Wife gave her beneath her feet to show her awareness of all Second Wife's deception and to symbolize her new power over Second Wife, who now fears her and realizes the bad karma she has brought upon herself.An-Mei later immigrates to America, marries, and gives birth to seven children (four sons, three daughters). The youngest, a son named Bing, drowns at age four.Lindo JongLindo is a strong-willed woman, a trait that her daughter Waverly attributes to her having been born in the year of the Horse. When Lindo was only twelve, she was forced to move in with a neighbor's young son, Huang Tyan-yu, through the machinations of the village matchmaker. After some training for household duties through her in-laws, she and Tyan-yu married when she turned sixteen. She soon realized that her husband was just a little boy at heart and had no sexual interest in her. Lindo began to care for her husband as a brother, but her cruel mother-in-law expected Lindo to produce a grandson. She restricted most of Lindo's daily activities, eventually ordering her to remain on bed rest until she could conceive and deliver a child.Determined to escape this unfortunate situation, Lindo carefully observed the other people in the household and eventually formed a clever plan to escape her marriage without dishonoring herself or her family. She managed to trick her young husband's family into believing that he was actually fated to marry another girl who was already pregnant with his "spiritual child", and that her marriage to Huang Tyan Yu would only bring bad luck to the family. In reality, the girl in question was a mere servant in the household and indeed pregnant, but abandoned by her lover.Freed from her first marriage, Lindo decided to emigrate to America. She married a Chinese-American man named Tin Jong and has three children: sons Winston and Vincent, and daughter Waverly.Lindo experiences regret over losing some of her Chinese identity by living so long in America (she is treated like a tourist on a visit to China); however, she expresses concern that Waverly's American upbringing has formed a barrier between them.Ying-Ying "Betty" St. ClairFrom a young age, Ying-Ying is told by her wealthy and conservative family that Chinese girls should be meek and gentle. This is especially difficult for her, she feels, because she is a Tiger character. She begins to develop a passive personality and repress her feelings as she grows up in Wuxi. Ying-Ying marries a charismatic man named Lin Xiao, not out of love, but because she believed it was her fate. Her husband is revealed to be abusive and openly has extramaritalrelationships with other women. When Ying-Ying discovers she is pregnant, she gets an abortion and makes the decision to live with her relatives in a smaller city in China.After ten years, she moves to Shanghai and works in a clothing store, where she meets an American man named Clifford St. Clair. He falls in love with her, but Ying-Ying cannot express any strong emotion after her first marriage. He courts her for four years before she agrees to marry him after learning that Lin Xiao had died, which she takes as the proper sign to move on. She allows Clifford to control most aspects of her life, mistranslating her words and actions, and even changing her name to "Betty". Ying-Ying gives birth to her daughter, Lena, after moving to San Francisco with St. Clair. When Lena is around ten years old, Ying-Ying becomes pregnant a third time, but the baby boy is anencephalic and soon dies.Ying-Ying is horrified when she realizes that Lena, a Tiger like herself, has inherited or emulated her passive behaviors and trapped herself in a loveless marriage with a controlling husband. She finally resolves to call upon the more assertive qualities of her Tiger nature, to appeal to those qualities in Lena. She will tell Lena her story in the hope that she will be able to break free from the same passivity that ruined most of her young life back in China.DaughtersJing-Mei "June" WooJing-Mei has never fully understood her mother and seems directionless in life. During June's childhood, her mother used to tell her that she could be anything she wants; however, she particularly wanted her daughter to be gifted, a child star who amazes the world, like Ginny Tiu (seen briefly on television) or June's rival Waverly. At the beginning of the novel, June is chosen to replace her mother's seat in the Joy Luck Club after her mother's death. At the end of the novel, June is still trying to deal with her mother's death, and she visits China to see the twin half-sisters (Wang Chwun Yu and Wang Chwung Hwa) whom her mother had been forced to abandon when the Japanese attacked China.One critic[who] has suggested[1] that the reason for the communication gap between Jing-Mei and her mother, and between the other daughters and their mothers—a major theme of the novel—occurs because the mothers come from a high context culture and the Americanized daughters from a low context culture. The mothers believe that the daughters will intuitively understand their cryptic utterances, but the daughters don't understand them at all.Rose Hsu JordanRose is somewhat passive and is a bit of a perfectionist. She had an unsettling childhood experience when her youngest brother, Bing, drowned while she was supposed to be watching him, and his body was never recovered. Rose marries a doctor, Ted Jordan, who loves her but also wants to spite his snooty, racist mother. After a malpractice suit, Ted has a mid-life crisis and decides to leave Rose. Rose confides in her mother and An-mei tells her the story of her own childhood. When Ted comes for the divorce papers, Rose finds her voice and tells him that he can't just throw her out of his life, comparing herself to his garden, once so beloved, now unkempt and full of weeds. An-Mei tells her that Ted has been cheating on her, which Rose thinks is absurd, but she later discovers this to be true. She wants to hire a good lawyer and fight for possession of the house, which she eventually wins.Waverly JongWaverly is an independent-minded and intelligent woman, but is annoyed by her mother's constant criticism. Well into her adult life, she finds herself restrained by her subconscious fear of letting her mother down. During their childhood, June and Waverly become childhood rivals; their mothers constantly compared their daughter's development and accomplishments. Waverly was once a gifted chess champion, but quit after feeling that her mother was using her daughter'stalent to show off, taking credit for Waverly's wins. She has a daughter, Shoshana, from her first marriage with Marvin, and is currently engaged to her boyfriend Rich Shields.Lena St. ClairThroughout Lena's childhood, she gradually becomes her mother's voice and interprets her mother's Chinese words for others. Like her father Clifford, she translates Ying-ying's words to sound more pleasant than what Ying-ying actually says. Ying-ying has taught Lena to beware of consequences, to the extent that Lena visualizes disaster in the taking of any risk. Lena's husband, Harold, is also her boss. He takes the credit for Lena's business and design ideas. He demands financial "equality" in their marriage. Lena is an associate while Harold is a partner, so he has a larger salary than she does. However, he insists that all household expenses be divided equally between them. Harold believes that by making everything equal, they can make their love equal as well. Lena feels frustrated and powerless.Table of contentsFeathers from a Thousand Li Away"The Joy Luck Club," Jing-mei "June" Woo"Scar," An-Mei Hsu"The Red Candle," Lindo Jong"The Moon Lady," Ying-Ying St ClairThe Twenty-Six Malignant Gates"Rules of the Game," Waverly Jong"The Voice from the Wall," Lena St. Clair"Half and Half," Rose Hsu Jordan"Two Kinds," Jing-mei "June" WooAmerican Translation"Rice Husband," Lena St. Clair"Four Directions," Waverly Jong"Without Wood," Rose Hsu Jordan"Best Quality," Jing-mei "June" WooQueen Mother of the Western Skies"Magpies," An-mei Hsu"Waiting Between the Trees," Ying-Ying St. Clair"Double Face," Lindo Jong"A Pair of Tickets," Jing-mei "June" WooCriticismThough Amy Tan's book has been widely praised by critics, it has also been alleged by Chinese-American author Frank Chin that it perpetuates racist stereotypes.[2][3][4] Chinese-American director Wayne Wang was impressed with the story and created a film version of the novel.[5]References^ CUNY Brooklyn article^ Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake^ The Joy Luck Club^ Review: The Joy Luck Club^ "Asian images in film spotlight - The Joy Luck Club". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 3 July 2008.。

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The Commentary on the Judgment says, “Heaven and Earth are opposites, but they strive for union. All beings stand in opposition to one another: what they do takes on order thereby. Great indeed is the effect of the time of Opposition”(Wilhelm 575).
The loss of balance by maj jong
The pursuit of balance by traditional Chinese symbols The final harmony and balance of these symbols
There are many symbols of Chinese games and myths with the metaphorical significance.
originates from Yijing, or The Book of Changes, or I Ching :
Confucianism “Qian”
and Daoism
and “Kun”, or the Heaven and Earth
“Yi”
meanssquare” coexist as a union:

Circumference All the shapes in the world
The metaphorical significance of “round” and “square” is deeply rooted in the historical concept that everything recycles.

英文电影鉴赏——喜福会PPT课件

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Amy received her
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Obviously, the conflicts are caused by mothers’ and daughters’ generation gaps and growing backgrounds. The mothers grew up in China where there are many traditions and rules to follow. However, the daughters grew up in San Francisco and live in an American way. In another way, it is also conflicts between the two cultures. In China, parents are the symbol of power. In America, however, everyone is equal and parents encourage sense of independence
Best Actress Under Ten in a Motion Picture Melanie Chang
Best Actress Under Ten in a Motion Picture (提名) Mai Vu

《喜福会(The Joy Luck Club)》英中字幕

“这牲畜…”市场鹅贩吹嘘着
"was once a duck"
“本是只鸭子”
"that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose."
“伸长脖子企盼化鹅”
"And now look! lt is too beautiful to eat."
“你瞧，它美得令人不忍下肚”
All right, all right! They're lining up for a pass!
好耶，他们直线传球，加油
Here we go, baby. Here we go. Oakland.
-[ Man ] All right! Go! -Go!
-Go! Yeah! -[ Cheering ]
我母亲召集喜福会
having met all these women in church,
好和她教堂认识的朋友聚会
Auntie An Mei,
安美阿姨
Auntie Lindo,
林多阿姨
Auntie Ying Ying.
莺莺阿姨
For 30 years, these women feasted,
三十年来，这些妇人们聚会
那就和犹太麻将没二样了，没有技巧可言
You American girls play Chinese, Jewish. What's the difference?
你们美国女孩一定认为，中国人、犹太人，不同吗
[ All Laughing ]
[ June Narrating ] They were worried.
In me, they see their own daughters,

喜福会PPT课件

罗丝（Rose）: 嫁入豪门后心甘情愿付
出和妥协，放弃深造的机会，甚至贬低自我，不再有主见，在婚姻中被丈夫忽略。听完母亲的故事，明白珍惜自己才会被人珍惜的道理后，重新肯定了自我价值，挽救了婚姻。
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母亲丁（苏 Su Yuan）女儿丁（君 June）
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【我对你没有期许，只有期盼，期盼你拥有更好的。】
苏 (Su Yuan):
抗战时期被迫遗弃一对双胞胎女儿，到美国后再婚，她将所有希望放在女儿君身上，希望把她塑造成一个有别于自己能成为白人社会所接受的高雅女性。
君（June）:
反抗母亲的意志，强调自己的自由，与母亲的隔膜和误解持续多年。
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母亲的期望
“到了美国，我就要生个女儿，她会很像我。但在美国，她却无须仰仗丈夫鼻息度日。在美国，不会有人歧视她，因为，我会让她讲上一口流利漂亮的美式英语。她将应有尽有，不会烦恼不会忧愁。她会领略我的一番苦心，我要她成为一只比期望中还要好上一百倍的漂亮的天鹅！
异样人生
谭恩美在《命运的反面》里自述曾在十六岁时，为了新交的男友，和母亲发生了激烈争吵。母亲把她推到墙边，举着切肉刀，刀锋压在她喉咙上有20分钟。最后，她垮了下来，哭泣着求母亲：“我想活下去，我想活下去。”母亲才把切肉刀从她脖子上拿开。在叛逆的青春期，她出过两次车祸；被人用枪指着抢劫，几乎被强奸；受到死亡威胁，几乎被泥石流冲走。20多岁那年，她最好的朋友在生日那天被入室抢劫者捆绑勒死，她被叫去辨认尸体，从此中途辍学，放弃博士学位。晚年的母亲还告诉她一个秘密：她在中国大陆有3个同母异父的姐姐。这个秘密深深震撼了谭恩美，成了她创作的主题。

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Experience & Sense of values
In China, parents tend to plan everything for their children while in America it is different. Chinese tend to share happiness,sorrow with their families and friends while Americans like to work along for their career.
What cause these collisions?
Times Languages Experience Sense of values Education
Times
The mothers and the daughters were born in different times. Mothers were born in the old China while their daughters were born in a totally different place, and they accept the American’s way of lifestyle and education. [Chinese people tend to show respect to older people while Americans prefer everyone to be equal].
Ying-Ying ”Betty” St. Clair She was born in a wealthy and conservative family in China. She married a charismatic man named Lin Xiao, a playboy, not out of love, but because she believed it was her fate. She killed her son because the strong hate to her husband.

《喜福会》跨文化交际讲解

2.Does Rich realize the mistakes he has made? Why?
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Dining Culture
Chinese: people never speak insincerely. We don’t say what we think.
American: Express their need straightforward. enjoy themselves, say what they want, accept what they need.
2.What is the expressive differences between Waverly/June’s dispute and Suyuan/Lindo’s flaunt? Why do they have such differences?
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Different Communication Style
Case 1
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Questions:
1. What makes little Waverly unhappy and rebel against her mother? What did she say?
2. What is Lindo's idea of daughters? Why does she think so?
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Case 3
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Questions:
1.What do you think of Rich’s behavior at dinner? Do Lindo and the other family members accept it? Can you guess their opinions on Rich? Why do they think so?