As a work that reflects culture differences between China and America, the Joy Luck Club has drawn a wide attention from scholars whose researches are more of holistic analyses from a macro perspective of cross-cultural communication. In accordance with the degree of dependence of semantic on dialogue context and dialogue language itself, Edward Hall divides culture into high-context culture and low-context culture, and holds that Chinese culture is a high-context culture, while American culture is a low- context one. According to Hall’s theory, the Sino- US cultural conflicts reflected by the mother- daughter conflicts in the Joy Luck Club can be analyzed from high-context and low-context culture perspective. And after conflicts, there finally will be a harmonious trend of Sino-US culture development, changing from clash and conflict to convergence and integration.
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