文档介绍：The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
 
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
The Joy Luck Club
eForeward
Feathers From a Thousand LI Away
The Joy Luck Club: Jing-Mei Woo
Scar: An-Mei Hsu
The Red Candle: Lindo Jong
The Moon Lady: Ying-Ying St. Clair
The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates
Rules of the Game: Waverly Jong
The Voice from the Wall: Lena St. Clair
Half and Half: Rose Hsu Jordan
Two Kinds: Jing-Mei Woo
American Translation
Rice Husband: Lena St. Clair
Four Directions: Waverly Jong
Without Wood: Rose Hsu Jordan
Best Quality: Jing-Mei Woo
Queen Mother of the Western Skies
Magpies: An-Mei Hsu
Waiting Between the Trees: Ying-Ying St. Clair
Double face: Lindo Jong
A Pair of Tickets: Jing-Mei Woo
Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to her weekly writers' group for kindness and criticism during the writing of this book. Special thanks also to Louis DeMattei, Robert Foothorap, Gretchen Schields, Amy Hempel, Jennifer Barth, and my family in China and America. And a thousand flowers each to three people whom I have had the joy and the luck to know: my editor, Faith Sale, for her belief in this book; my agent, Sandra Dijkstra, for saving my life; and my teacher, Molly Giles, who told me to start over again and then patiently guided me to the end.
The Joy Luck Club
The mothers, and the daughters:
Suyuan Woo—Jing-mei "June" Woo
An-mei Hsu—Rose Hsu Jordan
Lindo Jong—Waverly Jong
Ying-ying St. Clair—Lena St. Clair
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eForeward
Born in 1952 in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrant parents, Amy Tan followed her own path. Over the objections of her mother, she majored in college in writing and linguistics and pursued a career in business writing.
Any Tan's relationship with her mother was very difficult. An opportunity to travel with her mother back to China brought a new perspective.
Amy Tan's first fiction efforts were short stories. These attracted an agent, Sandr