The Joy Luck Club
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Article in Adult Fiction and Big Read categories.
Contents
- 1 About the Author
- 2 Other works by Amy Tan
- 3 Novels featuring Chinese Culture and History
- 4 Novels and memoirs featuring Chinese-American Families
- 5 First-Generation, Second-Generation and other Immigrant Stories
- 6 Novels featuring Mothers and Daughters
- 7 Nonfiction featuring Chinese Culture and History
- 8 San Francisco
- 9 Feature Films
- 10 For Children
- 11 External Links
About the Author
Other works by Amy Tan
Fiction:
- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- The Hundred Secret Senses
- The Kitchen's God's Wife
- Saving Fish from Drowning
Nonfiction:
For Children:
- The Chinese Siamese Cat (adapted into the television series Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat)
Novels featuring Chinese Culture and History
- The Red Chamber by Pauline Chen - An epic reimagining of the Chinese classic "Dream of the Red Chamber" is set against a backdrop of eighteenth-century Beijing and follows the intersecting lives of three women, including orphaned Daiyu, who becomes tangled in a web of intrigue with ties to the Emperor's Palace.
Novels and memoirs featuring Chinese-American Families
- Mona In the Promised Land by Gish Jen
- The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston. Try also her novel Tripmaster Monkey.
- Girl from Purple Mountain : Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America by May-Lee Chai and Winberg Chai
- Falling Leaves : The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter, by Adeline Yeh Mah. This book is also available in a version written for younger readers: *Chinese Cinderella
First-Generation, Second-Generation and other Immigrant Stories
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- A Step From Heaven by An Na
- Still Life with Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother by Helie Lee
- China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
- On Golden Mountain, by Lisa See
Novels featuring Mothers and Daughters
- The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Everything Will Be All Right by Tessa Hadley
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Nonfiction featuring Chinese Culture and History
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang - The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, describing the life of the author's grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother, a member of the Communist elite, and the family's experiences during the Cultural Revolution.
San Francisco
Feature Films
For Children
- In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord.
External Links
- The NEA's Big Read website has a Reader's Guide and more information about the book and the author.
- The Chinese in California: San Francisco's Chinatown An introduction to San Francisco's Chinatown on the Library of Congress website