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Introduction

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The Joy Luck Club, published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1989, presents the stories of four Chinese immigrant women and their American-born daughters. Each […]

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Amy Tan

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Amy Tan began writing fiction as a distraction from her work as a technical writer. A self-proclaimed workaholic, Tan wanted to find a way to […]

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Plot Summary

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The Joy Luck Club consists of sixteen interlocking stories about the lives of four Chinese immigrant women and their four American-born daughters. In 1949, the […]

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Characters

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A Jing-Mei Woo Jing-Mei, daughter of Suyuan Woo, takes her mother’s place in the Joy Luck Club when her mother dies. Jing-Mei searches for her […]

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Themes

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A Choices and Consequences The Joy Luck Club presents the stories of four Chinese immigrant women and their American-born daughters. All of their lives, the […]

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Construction

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A Structure In presenting the stories of four Chinese immigrant women and their American-born daughters in The Joy Luck Club, Tan uses “cradling,” a formal […]

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Historical Perspective

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A Historical China While The Joy Luck Club was published in 1989, it is set in pre-World War II China and contemporary San Francisco. The […]

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Questions

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In an interview with Elaine Woo for the Los Angeles Times (March 12, 1989), Amy Tan said that her parents wanted their children “to have […]

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Compare and Contrast

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1930s and 1940s: The Japanese occupied China. Full war erupted in 1945 in Beijing between the Chinese and Japanese. After the war, civil war breaks […]