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Introduction
1.Definitions of Culture
2.Background of Chinese-American Writers
3.Significance of the Study
4.Structure of This Thesis
Chapter One Literature Review
1.1 Review of Related theory
1.1.1Research on HC and LC
1.1.2 Research on the Cultural Dimension of Individualism and Collectivism
1.2 Research on The Joy Luck Club Home and Abroad
Chapter Two Background of Amy Tan and The Joy Luck Club
2.1 Amy Tan as a Chinese-American Writer
2.2 The Clue of The Joy Luck Club(1988)
Chapter Three Cultural Conflicts in The Joy Luck Club
3.1 Conflict between Chinese Obedience to Parents and American Independence and Democracy
3.2 Conflict between Chinese Women's Submissiveness and American Women's Independence
3.3 Conflict between Family's Honor and Individual Achievement
3.4 Conflict between Chinese High-context Culture and American Low-context Culture
3.5 Conflict between Superstition and Science
Chapter Four Causes of Cultural Conflict
4.1 Chinese Culture Experienced by the Joy Luck Club Mothers
4.1.1 Three Obediences and Four Virtues
4.1.2"Resign Oneself to Adversity"
4.1.3 Mothers' Ethnic Complex
4.2 American Culture Experienced by the Joy Luck Club Daughters
4.2.1 Individualism
4.2.2 Equality-Independence-Freedom
4.2.3 Race Prejudice and Governments' Policies
Chapter Five Tendency towards Cultural Fusion
5.1 Cultural Negotiation
5.2 Significance of the Reconciliation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgements