摘 要  《喜福会》是美国著名的华裔女作家谭恩美的代表作品。在小说中作者呈现给读者的是四位中国移民母亲与她们女儿之间的故事。孩子的母亲用中国式的教育方法来教育她们在美国出生并且受教育的女儿们，结果导致了一连串的冲突。小说中母亲与女儿的冲突实质上是中国与美国家庭教育观念的冲突。本论文以《喜福会》为切入点，剖析中美家庭教育的差异，通过比较这两种家庭教育，希望能取他人之长补己之短，从而促进我国的家庭教育。8911
关键词：《喜福会》；家庭教育；中美；差异   
Abstract   The Joy Luck Club is written by Amy Tan, a famous Chinese American writer. In the novel, it tells the stories of four Chinese-immigrant women and their American-born daughters. The mothers educate their daughters who are born and get educated in the United States by Chinese family education methods. This paper attempts to analyze these differences from the perspective of education. By comparing these two family educations, we hope to learn other’s experience to make up for our own defects so as to promote China’s family education.
Key words: The Joy Luck Club; family education; China-America; differencesOn Differences in Family Education Between China and America  
——Take The Joy Luck Club As an Example
Contents
摘 要i
Abstractii
I. Introduction.1
II. Differences in Family Education Between China and America Reflected in the Novel.3
 2.1 Different Understanding of Family Values.3
 2.2 Differences in Aims of Family Education.5
 2.3 Differences in Methods of Family Education5
 2.4 Differences in Contents of Family Education6
Ⅲ. Reasons for Family Education Differences Between China and America in the Novel The Joy Luck Club.7
 3.1 Different Historical Background7
 3.2 Different Social Condition.7
 3.3 Different Traditional Culture.8
 3.4 Differences of Attitudes Toward Family Education.8
 3.5 Differences of Thinking Mode9
Ⅳ. Results of Two Different Kinds of Family Education.10
V. Inspiration of the American Family Education to Chinese Family Education11
 5.1 Updating the Concept of Family Education.11
 5.2 Paying Attention to the Children’ All-round Development11
 5.3 Raising Independent Thinking Ability of Children12
Ⅵ. Conclusion.13
Bibliography.14
Acknowledgments.15                  
Ⅰ. Introduction  
    Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club is a masterpiece in Chinese-American literature. Through the stories of The Joy Luck Club, the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters are shown in front of the readers. Conflict is the main plot in The Joy Luck Club, and mothers and their daughters have many conflicts. The mothers that have had suffered many hardships and tortures in old China put all their hopes on their daughters. However, daughters were completely indifferent to their mothers’ considerable efforts and always go against their mothers’ wishes. They do not want to be confined and do some things at the mercy of their own mothers. Because of the two generations are born and grow up in different cultural environments, the mothers are deeply influenced by the traditional Chinese culture, while their daughters are born and get educated in the United States, whose culture is a completely different one. Thus conflicts have become something that prevents the understanding and communication between mothers and daughters. In fact, the conflicts between mothers and daughters reflect the conflicts of the family education between China and America.
Education is a social activity of cultivation and the inheritance of experiences in the daily life. It is a sort of social culture phenomenon which reflects different social cultural implications. In a sense, cultural transmission is education. Family, school and social education are the three main part of the education. But family education should not be replaced by school and social education. When children were born they had been in the atmosphere of family education. Generally speaking, it indicates that behaviors of criticism, guidance, cultivation and administration by the parents. It plays an important role not only in model values but also in cultivating an unique quality to our children. Chinese culture attaches importance to the harmony between human and nature but Americans pay more attention to overcoming the nature by them. The family education between China and America exists a significant difference. For example, in the mutual relationship of family members, Chinese parents are almost in the dominant position. but American parents attach more importance to getting along with their kids equally. About the concept of childcare, Chinese parents almost hope their kids can find a good job to be prosperous, in the future but American parents lay stresses on promoting their kids’ capability of living adaptation. About the ways of education between China and America, Chinese parents are willing to undertake the whole things for giving their kids more time to spend on study, but American parents tend to make their children do many practical things all by themselves. The disparities between two countries lead to the living adaptation of Chinese children inferior to American children. It is meaningful to promote children to grow healthily and enhance their own integral quality. So we should better understand and take examples by employing foreign advanced means of education for children. “the methods of education are the choice for a certain social culture. ” (Laughton 54) Through the comparison of education between China an America, we can analyze the distinctions between two countries in cross-culture communication. 《喜福会》中美家庭教育差异:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_7449.html