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喜福会中的文化冲突
喜福会中的文化冲突

Amy Tan was a famous American-Chinese writer. The Joy Luck Club, as her first wor k,become successful as soon as it was released.

However, their daughters were born in and grew up in America. They were affected b y the American culture and education. Different backgrounds and languages had made them misunderstand each other even hurt each other. Because of the differences in ed ucation and valuation towards equality and family, the mothers and daughters became estranged while they should have been the closest persons. In the end, when the dau ghters finally understood the “Chinese-style Maternal Love” that their mothers have given to them, the collision of two obviously different cultures are easing. The paper a nalyzes the cultural differences from the aspects such as Chinese traditional thoughts, cultural clash and cultural fusion shown in the movie.

This paper is the discussion about the the mother-daughter collision between Chinese and American cultures, it is divided into three parts:

I. The conflicts between Chinese and western culture

From a cultural perspective, the first part of the film through the relationship between the four pairs of mothers and daughters, present the two kinds of collisions between Chinese western culture and conflict, the second part describes the relationship between the mother and daughter from the conflict to the final combination. The differences between Chinese traditional ideas and American values are one of the main causes of the conflict between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American daughters. This paper is mainly discussed from the conflict and combination of the Joy Luck Club ", so as to deepen the readers' understanding and acceptance of the work.

1. The word "family" is endowed with different meanings. In China's traditional ideas, the family represents the absolute power of parents to their children. The child is a parent's subsidiary, and the parents must be absolutely obedient with children living in the control of their parents. At the same time, the family also means that the relationship between the parents and children and the child is the continuation of family life, bearing the honor of the family.And the independent and individualistic values of American traditional culture encourages individuals to struggle, emphasize self realization and independent consciousness.

2.Chinese people attach great importance to the family's collective strength, the American people believe in individualism; family is the whole world of mother . She find their own life through her daughter’s life and expected through her daughter's achievements to compensate for their own frustrated life, and her daughter is convinced that "I am what i am" and refused to intervene. The relationship between Chinese mother and American daughter, which reflects the conflict and contradiction of the different values of the Chinese family's "mutual dependence" and "individual struggle" of American culture. Home for the two generations of mother and daughter is a completely different concept

II.The fusion of Chinese and western culture

In fact, the conflict between mother and daughter is only a representation, the implication is sincere expectations from mother to daughter , mutual love and

friendship between mother and daughter . In the view of the mother, the daughter of their life is the continuation of their daughter is their hope, the daughter of their various attempts on the wish. Daughter's success is his own success, his pride. They want to in accordance with the Chinese traditional ethics, asked her daughter learn toe, life, future and marriage, everything must be to listen to the mother's arrangement. Is the daughter of the deep love and the mother daughter is full of expectations: they never let daughter from his suffering, but also to let the daughter received a good education, have the equal happy marriage, under the painstaking care of the mother away from trouble and sorrow. But the fact is China disappointed mother, daughter to pursue the is discipline of American style of individual rights, freedom and independence is particularly disgusted with mother, unable to stand the mother widespread and pervasive motherly love, can not accept mother didn't respect of daughter's own wishes your bossy ways, think mother does not accept themselves, think they always picky, think oneself regardless of how can let mother satisfied The relationship between mother and daughter, there is a contradiction and harmony. In childhood, the mothers demand more of the daughters making them feel injured. In adulthood, the mother also used their life experience, unlocked the secrets for her daughter, helped them know themselves and understood their own, and built up their confidence. Between the mother and the daughter eventually become a partner. Women should be aware of self-esteem, the mother told her daughter this truth. Only self-esteem, love can also be loved.

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经济实力、综合国力不断强大,全球化的趋势不断加强的情况下,东西方的文化渐渐地融合在一起,本文又将东西方文化融合的一面展现出来,体现了现实意义和强大的社会价值。 本课题在国内外的研究状况和及发展趋势: 从20 世纪起, 特别是自20世纪70年代以来, 一批知识界、文学界的华裔精英人物不仅跻身于美国的“主流文化” 圈, 而且以他们 的才智和作品使生活在美国的华人群体及他们身后的悠久的中国文 化传统逐步凸现出来。因此, 今天, 中美文化之间的关系问题己越来越成为中美文学界、批评界所关注的热点问题之一。小说《喜福会》(The Joy Luck Club ) 便是近些年来美国华裔作家对中美文化之间的关系进行探索的一个范本。美国人类学家、空间关系学的创始人爱德华·霍尔认为,“虽然世界各国的文化具有千差万别,但大多数文化还是具有明显的倾向性的”,因此他把文化大致分为“高背景文化与低背景文化”,朱漱真(2008年)出版的“中美文化的冲突与融合对《喜福会》文化的解读”就是利用霍尔的观点来分析研究的。E.D.Huntley(1998),在“A Critical Comparison”一文中对此片文章做了建设性的比较。 小说从东方∕西方、自我∕他者两个方面构建了一个东西方文化从二元对立到二元消解的文化发展景观。自新中国成立以来,我们可以意识到中国本身也包含了部分美国文化,而美国文化也包含了部分中国文化。同时,我们也可以看到中西文化由冲突碰撞到融合的发展前景。 主要研究内容:

从《喜福会》透视中美文化冲突与融合(1).

从《喜福会》透视中美文化冲突与融合(1) AbstractThe Joy Luck Club is the first novel of Amy Tan,a famous Chinese-American writer. In the novel she mainly describes the relationship between the Joy Luck Club mothers and their daughters and cultural conflicts. The novel is set in the age of globalization and in the multicultural American society; it represents the process of misunderstanding, conflicts, understanding and blending between the mothers and the daughters. Globalization not only brings many chances to china but also brings cultural challenges to China. As the degree of globalization is getting deeper, Chinese culture faces the danger of being integrated and changed by other cultures. Through contextual analysis of the Joy Luck Club and the cultural conflicts and blending embodied in it, this paper demonstrates that in the age of globalization a balance should be kept among different cultures, and a right attitude towards cultural conflicts should be taken, and it suggests that the native culture should not be thrown away when learning from others, and instead, it should be transmitted to others.Key WordsThe Joy Luck Club; conflict; understanding; cultural blending摘要《喜福会》是著名美国籍华裔女作家谭恩美的处女作,作者在小说中主要描述了四对移民母女的关系和她们之间由于文化的差异而引起的冲突,小说以全球化时代和美国多元文化社会为背景,呈现了4对母女由误会,冲突到理解的过程。在全球化环境下中国面临很多发展的机遇,但更多的是文化的挑战。随着全球化的加剧,中国文化面临一种被融化,被改变的危险。本文通过对《喜福会》文本及其所透视出的文化冲突与融合的分析,说明在全球化环境中,应该在不同文化中找到一个平衡点,并以正确的态度来对待文化冲突,同时不要轻易否定母文化,在向全世界学习其他优秀文化的时候,也要向他们传播中国传统文化。关键词《喜福会》;冲突;理解;文化融 合IntroductionIn the novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan explores the relationship between mothers and daughters. There are 4 mother-daughter pairs in the novel, mothers are the first generation immigrants, and the daughters are born in America. The Joy Luck Club mothers come from the Chinese traditional families when the dictatorial Chinese power is destroyed by the Japanese insurgents in the 1940s. They escape from the political upheaval of China, but they don't forget their Chinese traditional culture, while their daughters are born in America, they are the second generation immigrants, and they don't understand their mothers' Chinese culture, and their way of thinking, so there are often misunderstandings between the mothers and the daughters. In order to make their daughters know them and the Chinese culture, the Joy Luck Club mothers have made pain- taking efforts to remove their differences. They seize every opportunity to tell their daughters their past experiences, demonstrate their courage to challenge the feudal society and never stop extending

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