The Importance of Certain Traditional Chinese Beliefs in Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club"

The Importance of Traditional Chinese Beliefs in The Joy Luck Club <Tab/>The Joy Luck Club originally started off as a collection of intense, emotional short stories, written by Amy Tan. These twelve short stories are divided into four sections, and deal with the tensions between Chinese and American culture within the relationships between mothers and daughters. The Joy Luck Club is now considered a novel, because all twelve of the …

…balance of energy in an environment, however, is known as Feng Shui, and is yet another aspect of Chinese culture that greatly affects Ying-ying's life. Though many of these supernatural aspects of Chinese culture were largely wiped out during the Cultural Revolution, these aspects of Chinese culture are far from dead. They are very much kept alive in books such as this novel, even if they are not practiced as much as they once were.