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	The Joy Luck Club ecards and Amy Tan free cliff notes
		The Joy Luck Club, was published in early spring in 1989 by G. Putnam's Sons and presents a story of four Chinese women and their American-born daughters.
		The club contimued in the United states in order to lift her friends spirits from the Japanese invasion going on at the time.hoping to bring luck to her friends and family and finding joy in that hope.
		Thus, Tan wrote the joy luck club not only to help her sort out her cultural heritage but to learn how she and her mother could get along.
	www.thejoyluckclub.com (371 words)

	Joy Luck Club, The (1993): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The story of four remarkable friends whose extraordinary lives are filled with joy and heartbreak.
		Their lifelong friendship reveals a mosaic of the startling events and conditions that have shaped their lives -- and how these experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children.
		Joy Luck Club is full of tragidies and hope.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/joyluckclub (439 words)

	Joy Luck Club, The - Literature Guide - MSN Encarta
		The Joy Luck Club, published by G. Putnam's Sons in 1989, presents the stories of four Chinese immigrant women and their American-born daughters.
		The book's name comes from the club formed in China by one of the mothers, Suyuan Woo, in order to lift her friends' spirits and distract them from their problems during the Japanese invasion.
		Suyuan continued the club when she came to the United Stateshoping to bring luck to her family and friends and finding joy in that hope.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_701509542/Joy_Luck_Club_The.html (177 words)

	Literature Center Book Notes- Joy Luck Club, The - AOL@SCHOOL
		The club is the American version of a similar club, also named the Joy Luck Club, formed by Suyuan Woo in Kweilin, China, during the difficult time shortly before that city's fall to the Japanese.
		The Joy Luck Club also is inevitably and frequently compared with its predecessors, Maxine Hong Kingston's three varied books: The Woman Warrior (1976), China Men (1980), and Tripmaster Monkey (1989).
		Much like The Joy Luck Club, this novel feels as if Tan's ancestors are speaking through her as she transcends herself to triumph over ancestral ghosts.
	www.aolatschool.com /students/books/booknotes/_a/joy-luck-club-the/20060103190309990003 (1230 words)

	The Joy Luck Club
		A stunning literary achievement, THE JOY LUCK CLUB explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers.
		They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
		The Joy Luck Club is the story of four Chinese women born and raised in China before 1949 and their four American-born daughters.
	www.tuvy.com /resource/books/j/Joy_Luck_Club.html (482 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Joy Luck Club: Books: Amy Tan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		TJLC shows, in its older generation, the huge amounts of reliance displaced individuals have on bonding with other alienated people and the human struggle surmounted to achieve happiness.
		The daughters in TJLC portray the difficulties sometimes endured being Chinese-American and seeming to be an outsider of each culture.
		Sometimes the tone of TJLC can be overly sentimental and meandering but in all Tan creates a moving tale of displacement, the need to belong and solidarity.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Joy-Luck-Club-Amy-Tan/dp/0749399570 (1216 words)

	The Joy Luck Fight Club (thing)@Everything2.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Joy Luck Fight Club is a fantastic movie that merges together the heretofore never combined genres of action, drama, and chick flick.
		Every week this club grows stronger, and more and more mothers and daughters gain that special connection you can only get from beating the crap out of each other over a friendly game of Mah-Jonng (with a meal for everyone served afterwards, of course!).
		The third rule of Joy Luck Fight Club is: when someone has a touching moment or has a connection with their previously distant mother, the fight is over.
	everything2.com /?node_id=993636 (561 words)

	SparkNotes: The Joy Luck Club: Feathers from a Thousand Li Away: Introduction & “The Joy Luck Club”
		In fact, the San Francisco version of the club is a revival of the club Suyuan founded earlier, while she was still in China.
		At her first Joy Luck Club event, Jing-mei suffers silently as the other members level veiled criticisms at her for having dropped out of school and having been evicted from her apartment.
		To take her mother’s place in the Joy Luck Club is to enact an important ritual, and to carry on the memory of what was begun in China and resurrected in America.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/joyluck/section1.html (1895 words)

	Title: "The Joy Luck Club" - Topics: U.S./1945 - 1991, Diversity & California; World/China
		to "The Joy Luck Club" will assist teachers and parents using this film to show the culture and history of China in the first half of the 20th century focusing on the mistreatment of women.
		"The Joy Luck Club" is a story of Chinese-American assimilation.
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	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/joy-luck-club.html (746 words)

	Review: The Joy Luck Club (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Joy Luck Club, as stated in the movie's opening narrative, is a collection of four aging Chinese women bound together more by hope than joy or luck.
		The Joy Luck Club is the sum total of its parts with common themes giving solid grounding and greater resonance to the overall film.
		The line between drama and melodrama is a fine one, and, while The Joy Luck Club most often successfully navigates the tightrope, there are times when it slips and comes across as heavy-handed.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/j/joy_luck.html (600 words)

	The Joy Luck Club Movie Review by Anthony Leong from MediaCircus.net
		And though the story is deeply entrenched in the Asian-American experience, "The Joy Luck Club" ends up transcending all races and cultures with its heartfelt examination of the special bond between mothers and their daughters.
		The 'Joy Luck Club' of the title refers to four women who immigrated from China to the United States long ago: An Mei (Lisa Lu), Ying Ying (France Nuyen), Lindo (Tsai Chin, heard recently in "Titan A.E. "), and Suyuan (Kieu Chinh of "Riot in the Streets").
		Instead, they are tears of joy as the torch of hope and the aspirations of a better life are passed on to a new generation.
	www.mediacircus.net /joyluckclub.html (753 words)

	Amazon.ca: Joy Luck Club: Books: Amy Tan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She started a club in China during the war to keep the women's minds off the war and preoccupied with something fun.
		Her mother has just died and the three other mothers from "The Joy Luck Club" try to encourage Jing-mei to travel to China and tell her half sisters about their mother whom they never knew and her life.
		The purpose of the Joy Luck Club is to reward oneself and spend time with family and friends and enjoy food.
	www.amazon.ca /Joy-Luck-Club-Amy-Tan/dp/0804106304 (2021 words)

	eReader.com: Excerpt from The Joy Luck Club
		And her friends at the Joy Luck Club said she died just like a rabbit: quickly and with unfinished business left behind.
		Joy Luck was an idea my mother remembered from the days of her first marriage in Kweilin, before the Japanese came.
		It was the story she would always tell me when she was bored, when there was nothing to do, when every bowl had been washed and the Formica table had been wiped down twice, when my father sat reading the newspaper and smoking one Pall Mall cigarette after another, a warning not to disturb him.
	www.ereader.com /product/book/excerpt/11742?book=The_Joy_Luck_Club (3218 words)

	The Big Read
		Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club is itself a joyful study in luck.
		An intricately patterned novel whose author thought she was writing a short-story collection, it is also a mother-daughter saga by a writer whose own mother wanted her to be anything but a writer.
		The novel tells the story of new waves of immigrants who are changing and enriching America.
	www.neabigread.org /books/joyluckclub (200 words)

	MCMLS: THE BIG READ 2007 EVENTS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On Thursday, May 24, at 7:00pm the final group discussion of The Joy Luck Club in Montgomery County will be held in the Community room of the Central Library at 104 I-45 North Conroe.
		The project is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest, and includes book discussions and associated programming at locations throughout the greater Houston area, including Montgomery, Harris, Fort Bend, and Brazoria County locations.
		To stimulate interest and participation, complimentary copies of The Joy Luck Club will be made available to the first several people who register for one or more of the programs.
	www.countylibrary.org /bigread.htm (391 words)

	Weekend: No joy luck club
		Better Luck Tomorrow is an astonishing debut from filmmaker Justin Lin, a breakthrough on two counts that Hollywood typically bungles for profit.
		Better Luck Tomorrow is the work of a filmmaker wise beyond his experience with the camera and human nature.
		Better Luck Tomorrow should be required viewing for MTV's audience, if only to provide another, darker side to the pranks and parties.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/04/24/Weekend/No_joy_luck_club.shtml (791 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Joy Luck Club (xhtml)
		"The Joy Luck Club" comes rushing off the screen in a torrent of memories, as if its characters have been saving their stories for years, waiting for the right moment to share them.
		The "Joy Luck Club" of the title is a group of four older Chinese ladies who meet once a week to play mah jong, and compare stories of their families and grandchildren.
		"The Joy Luck Club" is like a flowering of talent that has been waiting so long to be celebrated.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19930917/REVIEWS/309170303 (640 words)

	‘The Joy Luck Club’ (R)
		Based on Amy Tan's sprawling tale of loss and perseverance among a small group of immigrant Chinese women and their American-born daughters, it is the latest in multicultural haute couture.
		Set in present-day San Francisco, "The Joy Luck Club" focuses on a group of four elegant, late-middle-aged Chinese women who, since arriving in America just after World War II, have gathered together once a week to play mah-jongg.
		The philosophy behind this gathering of survivors was to celebrate the passing of each week as if it were a New Year; to eat and laugh and tell their best stories in an attempt to restore their spirits and resist the grip of poverty and hardship.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thejoyluckclubrhinson_a0a844.htm (829 words)

	Filmtracks: The Joy Luck Club (Rachel Portman)
		The Joy Luck Club: (Rachel Portman) Vaulting to great heights immediately upon its release, Amy Tan's best-selling 1989 novel was destined for similar success in the arthouse film industry.
		At the time of the film's release in 1993, Portman was not yet recognized internationally as a foremost female composer, with only a substantial amount of British television scoring and a handful of arthouse films to her known credits.
		Also of note in The Joy Luck Club is the solo trumpet, something that Portman uses sparingly in her scores, but is often warmly embraced as another welcome variation from her norm (in, for instance, The Legend of Bagger Vance).
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/joy_luck_club.html (770 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: The Joy Luck Club Study Guide
		They called it the Joy Luck Club because their only joy was to wish for luck.
		As soon as Jing-mei is thrust into her mother's place at the Joy Luck Club, she realizes how little she knows about her mother, being American and a generation younger.
		It is not only the daughter who figures as the swan, the realization of all her mother’s hopes, but the mother too--for she holds the key to her daughter’s triumph in life.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/luck/section1.html (1319 words)

	Amy Tan Profile -- Academy of Achievement: Print Preview
		She worked around the clock to meet the demands from her many high-priced clients, but she took no joy in the work, and felt frustrated and unfulfilled.
		A year later her first book, a collection of interrelated stories called The Joy Luck Club was an international best-seller, and Amy Tan's life was changed forever.
		Although they are primarily concerned with the lives and concerns of Asian-American women, her stories have found an enthusiastic audience among Americans of all backgrounds, and have already been translated into 23 languages.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/printmember/tan0pro-1 (181 words)

	The Joy Luck Club Movie Review by Michelle Shen from MediaCircus.net
		To abandon one's children is probably the last thing a mother would do, yet in "The Joy Luck Club", convinced she was about to die, Suyuan did just that with the hope her twin daughters' would be protected from her bad luck.
		However, as "The Joy Luck Club" illustrates, a woman's lack of ego in a relationship and the constant fawning of her husband to win his love is not merely limited to a feudal society.
		In addition, although the memorable characters are the real strength of "The Joy Luck Club", some of the acting tends to be more melodramatic than dramatic, and the dialogue often sounds too poetic to be grounded in reality.
	mediacircus.net /joyluckclub2.html (801 words)

	Amy Tan : The Bonesetter's Daughter : Hundred Secret Senses : The Joy Luck Club : Book Review
		In fact, it was done with more flair in The Joy Luck Club, crafted in the form of a mahjong game.
		The Joy Luck Club was formed by four immigrant Chinese women in 1949 to play mahjong, eat, gossip and talk about their daughters.
		She has always been uncomfortable and embarrassed by the Joy Luck Club.
	mostlyfiction.com /world/tan.htm (1138 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| The Joy Luck Club
		The Joy Luck Club recounts the elder women's past struggles in China as well as their daughters' difficulties--both as children and as adults--in reconciling Western notions with their Chinese heritage.
		The novel is loosely arranged, like a series of interlocking short stories, but Suyuan's story of her lost children provides a frame for all the others, setting up the novel's theme of the Westernized daughters learning to understand their Chinese mothers.
		Near the beginning of the novel, Jing-mei discovers at her first meeting of the Joy Luck Club not only that Suyuan had been searching for her lost twin daughters, but that they have been found.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/04.22.99/joyluckclub-9916.html (743 words)

	Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan) - Reviews on RateItAll
		I read "The Joy Luck Club" when it was published over 10 years ago, and then I listened to the story again on tape this week.
		The book is based on the lives of four Chinese women and their grown daughters living in San Francisco.
		Joy Luck Club brings you along the sorrowful, yet happy lives of four old ladies in China.
	www.rateitall.com /i-18017-joy-luck-club-amy-tan.aspx (808 words)

	The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan \| LibraryThing
		The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
		United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club.
		Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money.
	www.librarything.com /work/4652 (273 words)

	Joy Luck Club
		The four daughters in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club are Chinese.
		They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds ‘joy luck’ is not a word, it does not exist.
		They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from one generation to generation.” Chinese mothers were “taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people’s misery, to eat my own bitterness.” Yet, the daughters do not have this obedience to their mothers.
	www.doingmyhomework.com /show_essay/People-J-656.html (305 words)

	Rolling Stone : The Joy Luck Club : Review
		Few would have predicted best seller-dom for a 1989 first novel about four chattering Chinese aunties living in San Francisco who have met every week since 1949 to play mah-jongg and trade stories about themselves and their families.
		But The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan -- who was born in 1952 in Oakland, Calif, after her parents immigrated to America -- struck a responsive chord that transcended geography and cut to the heart of parent-child relationships in pungent, lyrical prose.
		The Joy Luck Club hits hardest when it bypasses sentiment to ponder the inextricable mix of love and pain that comes with the ties that bind.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/movie/5947235/review/5947236/the_joy_luck_club (461 words)

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