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- Title
When East is West, Examining Chinese Mother-Daughter Relationships and Cultural Values through Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
- Authors
Yea-Wen Chen
- Abstract
The need to examine mother-daughter relationships among culturally diverse samples provides the impetus for this exploratory study. The present endeavor aims to explore key themes and issues in mother-daughter relationships between sojourning Chinese daughters residing in the US and their mothers back home in China or Taiwan from the perspectives of the sojourning daughters. This study utilized the film The Joy Luck Club as a stimulus to elicit both personal experiences of maintaining mother-daughter bonds on foreign soil and experiences with cultural value orientations in mother-daughter relationships through discussion with sojourning Chinese in the US. A total of four female sojourning Chinese participated in this study. Guided by a constant comparison method (Glaser, 1992; Glaser & Strauss, 1967), the results reveal four major themes. This initial investigation highlights a potential shift towards individualism in contemporary Chinese culture(s), signifies the importance of relational maintenance in long-distance mother-daughter relationships, and confirms Baxter's (1990) identification of the contradictions between autonomy and connection as the primary relational dialectic.
- Subjects
CHINESE people; JOY Luck Club, The (Book : Tan); MINORITIES; NONCITIZENS; MOTHER-daughter relationship; PARENT-child relationships; INTERPERSONAL relations; MULTICULTURALISM; INDIVIDUALISM; CULTURE
- Publication
Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research, 2007, Vol 6, p99
- ISSN
1552-700X
- Publication type
Article