Amy Tan is an author who often uses the theme of Chinese-American life, focusing mainly on mother-daughter relationships where the mother is an immigrant from China and the daughter is a thoroughly Americanized - yellow on the surface and white underneath. In "A Pair of Tickets," the mother tries to convey their rich history and legacy to her daughter, who is almost completely ignorant of their heritage, while the daughter attempts to understand her hopelessly old- fashioned mother. ... After visiting with her for a day they plan to take a plane to Shanghai, China where Jandale will meet her t...

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The first vignette is told by the daughter of the club's founder. ... The feelings that mothers have concerning their daughters, how daughters feel about their mothers, and the competition, love and resentment that takes place among various members of the group are gradually revealed. They essentially capture hearts and open eyes at the same time. ... I suppose love between mother and daughter prevails through all conflict, and even beyond death. It is proven when Suyuan's long-cherished wish of uniting June and her other daughters is fulfilled. ...

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One daughter shows her shame when she says to her mother, "I wish you wouldn't do that, telling everyone I'm your daughter" (p. 101). ... In the first place, mother-daughter relations between Chinese mothers and ABC daughters are not easy ones in Tan's novels. ... Another roundabout manner Suayan avidly sought to keep the Asian tradition in her daughter's lifestyle was Suayan's refusal to speak to her daughter in English. ... Despite the mothers struggle to transform their daughters into the best combination: "American circumstances and Chinese character (289)," in tim...

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The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a very moving movie about four mothers and four daughters and how they relive many of the same occurrences and hardships throughout life, only in different times and settings. ... They came to America wanting more for their families, but more particularly their daughters who were born as Americans. The mothers did not want their daughters to experience going "without," love, hope, joy, and to always have good luck and fortune, all while knowing whom they are. ... The relationships between all mothers and daughters were very important and how each p...

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The first time Nao Ling was able to get her daughter back, but after her husband sold the daughter a second time Nao Ling never saw her again. ... This was at a time when China was in great need of reform. ... I was not born at an auspicious time. The eight words of my birth time are not good ones. My husband spoiled my youth, son-in-law my middle years, and now it is my daughter who makes my old age unhappy"(230). ...

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It was a disgrace and embarrassment for the entire family that their daughter had a bastard child. ... Kingston's mother says; "To be a woman, to have a daughter in starvation time, was a waste enough" (6). ... Chinese folklore is peppered with such phrases as "girls are maggots in the rice," and "it is more profitable to raise geese than daughters." ... A daughter was referred to as an outsider because she would no longer bring any economic benefit to the family. ... Kingston does it for a long time, and for the first time speaks out about her in the contents of this book, where she brea...

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Her mother is gone, and she is gone without knowing that her twin daughters are still alive. ... At the time, she has no makeup and they will think she is Chinese. ... Suyuan wished to be reunited with her firstborn twin daughters, and now that desire has been realized through her daughter Jing-mei. ... The full circle begins with a mother's journey from China to America in a time of war and ends with the daughter voyaging back in order to spring forward into a new life. ...

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In the book, The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, this is portrayed in mother-daughter relationships. Lindo Jong tries to teach Waverly, her daughter, about all the Chinese values, beliefs, and traditions. ... I smile But my daughter's eyes and her smile become very narrow - (291). ... Waverly realizes that she has been a scared child all her life, hiding from her mother, "I saw what I had been fighting for: It was me, a scared child who had run away a long time ago to what I had imagined was a safer place- (204). ... Waverly finally was able to peer over her mothers barriers for a ...

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"As soon as the daughters grew old enough to be married off to her husband's family, she creates an economical loss to her family." ... "But there were some who would not sell their land, and when they had nothing wherewith to buy seed and plow and oxen they sold their daughters." ... "Mothers bound the feet of their daughters at around 5 years of age and gradually decreased the size of the child's foot over a period of months. ... It was what the people of traditional China followed at that time. ... There was strong discrimination against women during the time of traditional China....

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For example: in the book, Wang Lung's first daughter was displayed as a mentally disabled girl that counld not speak. In reality this was based on Buck's own daughter Carol who also suffered a similar disablity. ... Because the north and south hated each other immensly, Wang Lung had a very hard time surviving in the south. ... People say that during this time of famine many resorted to cannbalism. ...

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It seems every time Kingston turns around she is being denied some right or privilege a boy would enjoy; she is consistently referred to as a "slave-. ... She proves herself to be inadequate of handling even the most simple of tasks; and when the time came for her to confront her distant husband, she faltered, weak as a kitten. ... Brave Orchid incessantly ridicules Kingston, telling her how messy, how unattractive, and how uncouth her daughter is. ... Says Brave Orchid to her daughter, "You're always listening to Teacher Ghosts, those Scientist Ghosts, Doctor Ghosts."" ...

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My grandma had seven sons and daughters. ... He also used a lot of money for my brother and me to school in the city, so we stayed in the store most of the time. ... Grandma's wish was to bring all her sons and daughter to New York. ... My parents didn't make a lot of money during that time, but they worked really hard. ... Time passed so fast. ...

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In 1979, China (which contained approximately 25% of the world's population), initiated a dramatic policy named "one child family" that aimed for major social and economic reforms. Rather then just trying to use other forms of birth prevention to control the countries population and limit industrial...

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Many of these people not better or worse then you or I have had a rough time making some of their dreams come true. ... Gish Jen is a daughter of immigrant parents. ... People threw rocks at them all the time. ...

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Parents work hard to earn money in order to afford their son or daughter the chance to get higher education. On the one hand, that can be a motive power to encourage students to work hard, because they do not want to disappoint their parents; on the other hand, it produces pressures on students who spend all their time and energy on study in order to get high marks an the examinations. ...

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For San-Francisco year was in the same time great and very bad. ... Noble Prize was originated by very rich man who didn't have any sons or daughters who will inherit his money after his death, so he decided to make a Noble fund and all the people who participated in year's events and helped it will get some money from his account. ... President Bush gave him time to destroy the weapons, but Hussein tried to cover it up and waste time. ... UN tried to help Hussein and give him more time because that's what they want in UN: Peace around the world. ... Every time period has its go...

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The Opium War, and the opium trade proper between China and Great Britain lead to the development of sinophobic ideals surrounding the Chinese. As a result, Chinese immigration into countries such as Canada, as well as their integration into Canadian societies was immensely difficult within the year...

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But for some, this policy is saving money " having just one child means that the average household uses fewer resources on children, in both time and money. ... An old Chinese saying states that "The birth of a son is a big happiness, but the birth of a daughter is a small happiness ". ...

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This economic planning failed because workers focused on iron smelting and neglected farming and ignoring food production at a time when bad weather brought poor harvests and famine; and resulting into the death of thirty million people. ... (See Appendix B) The situation is quite different in rural areas; families are eligible to have a second child if their first child is a daughter or suffers any kind of disability, albeit a second child is subject to birth spacing, which varies from 3 to 4 years. ...

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