【正文】 s? love reminds them that they cannot deny their mothers? culture. III. Cultural Dialogue, Communication and Understanding Because of the constant maternal love of the Joy Luck Club mothers, the daughters begin to understand and appreciate their mothers and the Chinese culture that their mothers represent. They begin to have cultural dialogue and munication with their mothers. Although they don?t have any special dialogue or discussion about the Chinese culture, the Joy Luck Club mothers try to grasp every chance to tell their daughters the knowledge about China. When Waverly and her mother have a dialogue about Genghis Khan, Taiyuan is mentioned. Waverly misunderstands it as Taiwan, her mother corrects her instantly, “I was born in China, in Taiyuan. Taiwan is a province of China.” (Tan 167). She doesn?t want her daughter misunderstand her motherland. On another occasion when some boys in Waverly?s class say Chinese people do Chinese torture, her mother corrects her daughter, “Chinese people do many things. Chinese people do business, do medicine, and do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.” (Tan 73). Lindo says these words because she doesn?t want her daughter feel unconfident in front of her American classmates. In this way, she tells her daughter that Chinese people are not inferior to any other people in the world. For them (the Joy Luck Club mothers), the offspring of Chinese immigrants are as superb as the Americans. Thus, through this kind of daily dialogue, the Joy Luck Club mothers instill a sense of Chineseness into their daughters? hearts. Thanks to their great efforts and maternal love, on one hand, the Joy Luck Club mothers gain understanding from their daughters。因而 , 《喜福會》中的母愛不僅是中國文化的象征 ,更重要的是母女理解與溝通的橋梁，也是中美文化交流的橋梁。這四位母親都有著自己的世界觀，她們的世界觀又是立足于她們的中國生活經(jīng)歷。 understanding。 A Cultural Interpretation of Maternal Love in the Joy Luck Club 《喜福會》中母愛主題的文化闡釋 Abstract The Joy Luck Club is written by Amy Tan， a famous Chinese American writer. In the novel, she presents the stories of four Chineseimmigrant women and their Americanborn daughters. Each of the four Chinese women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share her experiences with her daughter, and they never cease to try to build a bridge over the cultural differences and conflicts between them and their daughters with their maternal love of various forms. At first the daughters don?t understand their mothers and the Chinese culture that their mothers represent, but as time elapses, the daughters begin to understand and appreciate their mothers39。 culture。她們想把自己的經(jīng)歷一一講述給女兒 ,并努力通過母愛的表達在她們與女兒的文化差異和沖突之間建立起溝通的橋梁。 關(guān)鍵詞 《喜福會》；沖突；理解；文化；母愛 Introduction Amy Tan?s the Joy Luck Club is a masterpiece in ChineseAmerican literature. The Joy Luck Club mothers and their daughters have been the focus of research ever since the publication of this book. Some researchers put the emphasis on the relationship between the mothers and daughters while some others believe that it is the writing style that makes Amy Tan?s the Joy Luck Club a success. For there are conflicts that have been vividly described in this book, some researchers make the conflicts in the Joy Luck Club the theme of their thesis. However, in this thesis, maternal love will be the theme, and it will be interpreted from a cultural point of view. Through the stories of the Joy Luck Club, the secretladen lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their Americanborn daughters are shown in front of the readers. The daughters reject their mothers? seemingly constant criticism of everything they choose, from husbands to hairdos. They view their mothers? warnings as irrelevant, and their advice as intrusive. The daughters do not know what has inspired their warnings and advice: the hardships their mothers suffered in China before ing to the United States. Thus, as the mothers see it, their daughters are flailing in their modern American circumstances, unable to use what is “in their bones,” the family?s inheritance of pain that led to their determined strength for survival, which their mothers try to bequeath them. The mothers, meanwhile, watch with heartache as their daughters? marriages fail, as they expect less and less and so accept less and less. Conflicts have bee something that prevents the understanding and munication between mothers and daughters. In fact, all the conflicts are caused by cultural differences. The Joy Luck Club mothers have accepted and been deeply influenced by Chinese culture, while their daughters are born and grow up in the United States and know little about Chinese culture. What they have accepted is the American mainstream culture which is somehow contradictory with Chinese culture. However, due to the maternal love of the Joy Luck Club mothers, the mothers and daughters finally understand each other. The maternal love in the Joy Luck Club helps the daughters understand their mothers。 on the other hand, they impart the Chinese culture to their Americanborn daughters, which is of the most significance. In the process of dialogue and munication, cultural barriers that cause misunderstanding between mothers and daughters are being removed little by little, and in the end the understanding and blending of the two cultures are achieved. Conclusion Due to the disparate cultures they are born in, the Joy Luck Club mothers and daughters at first find it is difficult to have mutual understanding. However, as the Joy Luck Club mothers tell the daughters their experiences in China, their American daughters begin to know why sometimes their mothers? behaviors are so different, or even backward and superstitious in their eyes. Their mothers suffer a lot before they immigrate to the United S