Amy Tan Amy Tan is a famous Chinese-American female writer. His works include "The Joy Luck Club", "The Kitchen God's Wife", "The Bonesetter's Daughter", etc.

Amy Tan was born in California, USA, in 1952. She is one of the famous contemporary Chinese-American female writers. She did not start writing novels until she was thirty-three years old. In 1919, she published her first novel "The Joy Luck Club", which established her reputation in the literary world. "The Joy Luck Club" is based on the story of four pairs of mothers and daughters, and vividly describes the delicate feelings between mothers and daughters. This novel not only won the National Book Award of the year, but was also adapted into a movie, setting a record high. box office success. After "The Joy Luck Club", Amy Tan also published "The Kitchen Wife's God" and "The Hundred Secret Senese", both of which were critical and critical bestsellers.

Amy Tan is good at describing the emotional entanglement between mothers and daughters. Many novelists use this as a writing theme. However, as a second-generation Chinese American, Amy Tan has an extra layer of cultural struggles compared to future writers. . Amy Tan often takes Chinese-American women born in the United States as the protagonists. This group of Chinese-American women not only face issues of racial identity, but also must cope with the pressure from their parents. Mothers come from war-torn China, and usually have a past that they cannot look back on. After coming to the New World, they place all their hopes on their daughters, but the feeling of "hoping for their daughters to fail" puts great pressure on their daughters; mothers They also use traditional methods to discipline their daughters. Traditional Chinese parents are not used to praising their children and require absolute obedience from their children. When their daughters see the "democratic" education method of American parents and then see their mother who can't even speak English well, they feel even more depressed. It's indignant. It's not that mother and daughter don't love each other, but due to the cultural and age gap, they either don't know how to express their love, or they express the wrong meaning. As a result, the two closest people often cause the most serious harm to each other.