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1、Chinese American literatureBy changkakenThe theme and topic of Chinise American CultureChinese American literature deals with many topics and themes.A common topic is the challenges Another common theme is that of interaction between generations.Questions of identity and gender are often dealt with
2、as wellChinese American Literature in the 19th century19th century Chinese American literature has only recently come to be studied,as much of it was written in Chinese.19th century Chinese American writers were primarily workers and students.Some famous writers of this periodChinese American Litera
3、ture in the 20th centuryChinese American literature written of the 20th century is written almost exclusively in English.Chinese American authors became more prolific and accepted after the lifting of the Chinese Exclusion Act.The 1970s saw further progress.Chinese American Literature in the 20th ce
4、nturyIn the 1980sDavid Henry HwangAmy TanThe 1990s saw further growthRecent HistoryHow can you say luck and chance are the same thing.Chance is the first step you take,and luck is what comes afterwardsAmy Tan The Kitchen Gods WifeAmy TanA middle child and only daughter born on in Oakland,California
5、to Chinese immigrants John Tan and Daisy February 19,1952.Moved to Switzerland,where Amy finished high school.During this period,Amy learned about her mothers former marriage to an abusive man in China,and of their four children,including three daughters and a son who died as a toddler.In 1987 Amy t
6、raveled with Daisy to China.There,Amy finally met her three half-sisters.Tan received her bachelors and masters degrees in English and linguistics from San Jos State University,and later did doctoral linguistics studies at UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley.Resides in Sausalito,California with her husban
7、d,Louis DeMattei,a lawyer whom she met on a blind date and married in 1974.Major Works of Amy Tan The Joy Luck ClubThe Kitchen Gods WifeThe Hundred Secret SensesThe Bonesetters DaughterSaving Fish From DrowningThe Opposite of Fate:A Book of Musings(Non-fiction)The Moon Lady(1992)Sagwa,the Chinese Si
8、amese Cat(1994)The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club(1989)is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan.It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco,California who start a club known as the Joy Luck Club,playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety
9、of foods.The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game,with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters.The three mothers and four daughters(one mother,Suyuan Woo,dies before the novel opens)share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes.Each part is preceded by
10、a parable relating to the game.In 1993,the novel was adapted into a feature film directed by Wayne Wang and starring Ming-Na,Lauren Tom,Tamlyn Tomita,France Nuyen,Rosalind Chao,Kieu Chinh,Tsai Chin,Lisa Lu,and Vivian Wu.The screenplay was written by the author Amy Tan along with Ronald Bass.The nove
11、l was also adapted into a play,by Susan Kim,which premiered at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in New York.The Kitchen Gods Wifeu A triumphuA solid indication uAagain a story that a Chinese mother tells her daughteruSurpasses its predecessor as a fully integrated and developed narrative,immensely readab
12、le,perceptive,humorous,poignant and wise.The Hundred Secret SensesThe Hundred Secret Senses focuses on the relationship between Chinese-born Kwan and her younger,Chinese American sister Olivia,who serves as the books primary narrator.The melding of Olivias modern Western world and Kwans yin world co
13、me to show the desire and ambivalence of connecting and creating an Asian American identity for Olivia and Kwan,individually and together.The tension builds when together Kwan schemes to get Olivia and her estranged husband,Simon,back together by traveling to China.Kwan serves as the translator for
14、the two writers on their assignment to discover Olivia and Kwans connection to the Yin world.Kwan makes Olivia come to see that there are things in this world that we can understand through our five senses but that sometimes the hundred secret senses are where we understand the rest.This story is ab
15、out the journey of identity,family history,past lives,and ultimately,love.The Bonesetters DaughterThe Bonesetters Daughter,published in 2001,is Amy Tans fourth novel.Like much of Tans work,this novel deals with the relationship between an American-born Chinese woman and her immigrant mother.The book
16、 explores the difficult relationship between Ruth,a Chinese-American woman,and LuLing,her Chinese mother.Tan brilliantly combines the small details of everyday life with the larger issues of displacement,culture and language and the importance of shared family histories.Compelling.exotic lands and t
17、he past lend themselves to poetry.Saving Fish From DrowningAwarded an honorable mention from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature,it is Tans sixth and most recent work.The story follows the trials and tribulations twelve American tourists face when they embark on an expedition to explore
18、 China and Burma.The book opens with an article from the San Francisco Chronicle,stating that 11 tourists,including four men,five women,and two children have mysteriously vanished in Burma,after sailing away on a cruise on Christmas morning.From then on,the story is told through the omniscient first
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