Wu Suyuan's Cultural Identity in The Joy Luck Club

1 The Joy Luck Club was a small mahjong party organized by Wu Suyuan, one of Chinese mothers, and three sisters in Guilin in the 1940s to escape the fear and anxiety caused by the war, hoping to bring good luck to each other, that is, happiness and joy.

2. The Joy Luck Club is a novel by Amy Tan, a Chinese American woman writer. The Joy Luck Club is a party name given by mothers who immigrated to the United States to play mahjong. By describing the generation gap and estrangement conflict between four pairs of mothers and daughters, the author reflects the collision and compatibility between Chinese mother culture and foreign culture, and the difficult pursuit of self-cultural identity between the two cultures in the collision.