【正文】 s book has four parts divided into four sections creating sixteen chapters. This thesis which consists of six main chapters, will analyze the conflicts and blending between American and Chinese cultures in The Joy Luck Club. In the first chapter, I will briefly introduce the relationship works and the main experience in China of the immigrant mothers. In the second chapter, I will summarize the conflicts between mothers and daughters respectively with the following key words: expectation, confidence, interference, and misunderstanding. In the following chapter, I39。d like to analyze the reasons of the conflicts between mothers and daughters, including the different cultural traditions, different natural conditions, different social anization, and different ways of expression. In the last but one chapter, the way how they confront the conflicts and get along with each other finally will be my focus. In the last chapter, I will make a summary. The reason why I choose this novel and this topic is on the one hand, with the globalization going far and fast, nowadays more and more people get the chance to live abroad. According to the latest figure release of the 20xx American Study of Population Dynamics the Chinese Americans bee the largest Asian American ethnic groups, and in the past 10 years, ChineseAmerican population increased by one third. So I believe my thesis has a realistic significance when more and more Chinese e across culture shocks in the foreign countries. On the other hand, the style of education between China and America differs a lot. My thesis also tries to summarize the solutions in solving the conflicts which are offered by the author by analyzing the specific conflicts of four pairs of mothers and daughters in the novel. Conflict and Blending between American Daughters and Their Chinese Mothers 2 Chapter Two The Mothers39。 Sufferings The novel has a balanced structure. There are four sections, and four tales within each section. To make my thesis easy to follow, I’d like to introduce the sufferings of the four mothers first, which actually lay the foundation for some of the conflicts and the flows of the plots. The Sufferings of June Woo39。s Mother Suyuan Woo June Woo39。s Chinese name was Jingmei Woo, and she was an unmarried writer who decided to travel to China to meet the half—sisters she had never known． Suyuan Woo was her mother． During the World War Ⅱ , Suyuan took the kids to Guangxi to seek safer shelter, where she and the other three women anized a Joy Luck Club which relieved them of cares and worries. Before long news came that the Japanese army would invade Kweilin, and then Suyuan Woo had to flee to Chongqing with her twin daughters with no vehicles at all. However she was so exhausted that she dropped her twin daughters on the side of the road desperately. Fortunately, she had a narrow escape with the help of an American missionary, who took her to the hospital, in which she met Luning Woo and married him in America. The Sufferings of Rose39。s Mother Anmei Hsu Anmei Hsu was the mother of Rose． She was the last of four best friends， who came to the US after seeing her own mother bee the mistreated 4th wife of an abusive Chinese businessman. When she was young, she was forced to follow her mother as a concubine to Tianjin from Ningbo. Under the old rule of patriarchal ideology in Chinese society, if a woman remarried, it would be a great shame to her and her family. Therefore, her mother39。s status in the mansion was much lower than the other three wives. Anmei Hsu deeply felt the pain of living off others. Although finally she was relieved of jealousy and struggle of the large house, the free was at the cost of the life of her mother. The Sufferings of Waverly39。s Mother Lindo Jong Waverly was a divorced accountant and she had a new boyfriend, Rich. Lindo was her mother. She came to the United States after having escaped from a horrible arranged Conflict and Blending between American Daughters and Their Chinese Mothers 3 marriage with a 10yearsold boy when she was 13． She lived in the north of China, where they had suffered natural disasters for several years, so her parents had to let her get married early, while the other family members got away from the faminestricken area. Lindo Jong married a useless rich kid by a matchmaker. Unfortunately, she was not in that family a hostess, but a child bride, suffering a variety of insults. In order to preserve the secretssexual dysfunctionof their son, her parentsinlaw gave money and set her free. The Sufferings of Lena39。s Mother Ying Ying Gu Lena was a depressed and newly married woman whose husband, Harold, was an American guy． Ying Ying, mother of Lena, was Suyuan39。s another friend who came to the United States after having been married to a cruel Chinese man． Ying Ying Gu came from a prosperous family. Her husband was a playboy, and gave her such great physical and psychological damage that she killed her unborn child in desperation, and departed from her husband until he had died. Later, she married an American soldier and began a new life. Conflict and Blending between American Daughters and Their Chinese Mothers 4 Chapter Three Conflicts Conflicts between Suyuan Woo and June The main conflict between Suyuan Woo and her daughter lies in that the mother had too much expectation for her daughter, while the daughter could not stand the great pressure. I extract the following two typical paragraphs to illustrate it: You could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down.