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出的文化沖突與融合的分析,說明在全球化環(huán)境中,應(yīng)該在不同文化中找到一個(gè)平衡點(diǎn),并以正確的態(tài)度來對(duì)待文化沖突,同時(shí)不要輕易否定母文化,在向全世界學(xué)習(xí)其他優(yōu)秀文化的時(shí)候,也要向他們傳播中國傳統(tǒng)文化。t forget their Chinese traditional culture, while their daughters are born in America, they are the second generation immigrants, and they don39。 so called Chinese culture and their way of thinking, so misunderstanding often makes them unhappy. 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 maternal love to their daughters. Thanks to their great efforts, their purpose is fulfilled. Therefore, cultural understanding and blending between the mothers and daughters are achieved. In the context of globalization, China faces many chances to develop its economic power。s is increasing rapidly. This paper, through the exploration of The Joy Luck Club, mainly discusses the cultural conflicts, understanding and integration between the mothers and the daughters, and metaphorically between Chinese culture and American culture. 2.Amy Tan and her novel The Joy Luck ClubAmy Tan was born in Oakland, California. Both of her parents were Chinese immigrants. Her father, John Tan, was an electrical engineer and Baptist minister. In China, her mother who was forced to leave her three daughters from a previous marriage behind in Shanghai. Her marriage to John Tan produced three children, Amy was one of them. Amy Tan’s family is a typical immigrant family, her parents are the first generation immigrants, and she is the secondgeneration immigrant. She has experienced the same kind of inpatibility which she described in the novel. When she finished the high school in Switzerland, she and her mother were in frequent conflict. Tan further defied her mother by abandoning the premed course her mother had urged her to pursue the study of English and linguistics. In the novel, Jingmei abandoned studying piano her mother asked her to study, because she cannot stand her mother’s arrangement for her. Amy Tan and the daughters in the novel have many things in mon. They are the secondgeneration immigrants. But the mothers, as the first generation immigrants, they don’t totally integrate in the American culture. They cannot speak English with fluency. They never discard the tradition and never forget their lives in China. They show their love for their daughters by interfering in their activities and planning the daughters’ future. To the mothers, they have the pulsory and responsibility to train their daughters to bee perfect persons. They want to make their daughters bine the “American Context” with “Chinese Personality” perfectly. Their daughters, however, are often born and grow up in America, and are deeply affected by the American moral standard and acting principles. They cherish their independent spirits and characters, and they are not willing to be interfered and controlled by others. Their narratives justify the puzzle, and the conflicts between two generations they face, when they span the different cultures. They view their mothers as the fossils of the old society, because they fear and hate their mothers’ interference and negation on their activities. When their mothers tell their stories in China they express their detestation on it, when their mothers want to pass their Chinese cultural tradition to them, they are against it firmly. With the clash of different cultures, the two generations have difficulties in municating and understanding each other. But the novel doesn’t end with the conflicts。 they wonder whether they have their daughters away from tradition. So in the story “The Joy Luck Club” Jingmei feels puzzled,“What will I say? What can I tell them about my mother? I don’t know anything.”(Tan 26)The way in which the mothers express their love cannot be accepted by the daughters. Jingmei believes that her mother’s constant blame is the embodiment of lacking of affection. However, in fact, the mother’s severity and high expectations are expressions of love and faith in her daughter. Other motherdaughter pairs experience the same misunderstanding. In some ways, this misunderstanding es from cultural differences. The Chinese traditional concepts such as filial obedience, criticismenveloped expression of love are all different from the American concepts such as the individualism, freedom, selfesteem and direct expression. The mothers in the The Joy Luck Club hope that their daughters can get close to them as they were so close to their own mothers in China. For instance, Ammei’s Popo tells her that her mother is a ghost to make Ammei forget her mother. Although Ammei hasn’t seen her mother for years, she gets to love her mother when her mother bs her hair, and all these things they do are as natural as they do them everyday. And Ammei says,“This is how a daughter loves her mother. It is so deep it is in your bones.”(Tan 41) when she has seen her mother cutting her flesh to cook soup for her Popo.But in America, children always do not follow all that their parents tell them and behave what they want to. They emphases their individuality