21. Featured Author: Amy Tan But amy tan has a wonderful eye for what is telling, a fine ear for dialogue, a deep empathy for her subject matter and a guilelessly straightforward way http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/18/specials/tan.html

Featured Author: Amy Tan With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times In This Feature Reviews of Amy Tan's Earlier Books Articles About Amy Tan Recent Links Nancy Willard Reviews 'The Bonesetter's Daughter' (Feb. 18, 2001) First Chapter: 'The Bonesetter's Daughter' Reuters Amy Tan REVIEWS OF AMY TAN'S EARLIER BOOKS: The Joy Luck Club ,' reviewed by Orville Schell "In the hands of a less talented writer such thematic material might easily have become overly didactic . . . [But Amy Tan] has a wonderful eye for what is telling, a fine ear for dialogue, a deep empathy for her subject matter and a guilelessly straightforward way of writing . . . She has written a jewel of a book." The Kitchen God's Wife "Within the peculiar construction of Amy Tan's second novel is a harrowing, compelling and at times bitterly humorous tale . . . [N]one of Tan's fans will be disappointed. 'The Kitchen God's Wife' is a more ambitious effort and, in the end, greatly satisfying." The Moon Lady "Here's cause for celebration: a handsome new storybook by Amy Tan with glowing illustrations by Gretchen Schields . . . a story with deep, satisfying meanings . . . It may seem greedy to want more, but there are structural flaws . . ." The Hundred Secret Senses ,' reviewed by Claire Messud "To accept the novel as anything more than a mildly entertaining and slightly ridiculous ghost story, the reader must [make a] demanding leap of faith, turning a blind eye to rash improbabilities and a host of loose ends. . . . Nonetheless, [the character] Kwan, in particular, is a memorable creation."

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Amy Tan Amy Tan Biography; bibliography. From Voices from the Gap Amy Tan Bio; short book reviews Amy Tan Bio; bibliography; links. The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Young Adult Fiction By Frances A. Nadeau. In ALAN Review Female Protagonists in Multicultural Young Adult Literature By Judith Hyan and Deborah Sherrill. In ALAN Review Return to: Author Page Chinese American Literature

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PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 10: Amy Tan (1952 - ) Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present MLA Style Citation of this Web Page Chap. 10: Index ... Home Page Source Anniina's Amy Tan Page Primary Works The Joy Luck Club. NY: Putnam's, 1989. PS3570 .A48 J6 The Kitchen God's Wife. NY: Putnam, 1991. PS3570 .A48 K58 The Moon Lady. NY: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992. Juv / Easy T161 m The Joy Luck Club The hundred secret senses. NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. PS3570 .A48 H86 The Bonesetter's Daughter. NY: Putnam, 2001. Selected Bibliography 1980-Present "The World of Amy Tan." Paintbrush: A Journal of Poetry and Translation 22 (Autm 1995). Special Edition Bomarito, Jessica, Jeffrey W. Hunter, and Amy Hudock. eds. Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2004. Ho, Wendy. In her mother's house: the politics of Asian American mother-daughter writing. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 1999. PS153 .A84 H6

24. Amy Tan (b. 1952) amy tan s work is greatly indebted to and inspired by that of Maxine Hong Kingston, particularly to Kingston s first book, The Woman Warrior. http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/tan.html

Amy Tan (b. 1952) Contributing Editor: Amy Ling Classroom Issues and Strategies Amy Tan's work is greatly indebted to and inspired by that of Maxine Hong Kingston , particularly to Kingston's first book, The Woman Warrior . Thus, it would be useful to read these two authors back-to-back as well as to compare Tan with other bicultural women writers who found their voices in the wake of the civil rights and women's liberation movements. Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues Thematically, The Joy Luck Club and The Woman Warrior share three foci: the mother/daughter relationship, story-telling, and finding one's own voice or identity. The mother/daughter tension, universally caused by generational conflicts, is here intensified by cultural differences. In Tan's novels, the mothers have immigrated from China to the United States for the express purpose of providing their daughters with greater opportunities. To their surprise and dismay, the daughters have grown up American and thus "foreign" and incomprehensible. Through storytelling, each of the four mothers and daughters attempts to make herself comprehensible to her other half. "The Red Candle" is one such attempt and a fine short story in its own right. Though set in China, where women had few rights and almost no autonomy, it nonetheless provides a feminist exemplum, showing how a clever girl uses the very customs meant to constrain her to achieve her liberation. Significant Form, Style, or Artistic Conventions

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from LaborLawTalk.com Word: Definition: English Math Teacher Labor Law ... Labor Law Center Employment law requires that employers post mandatory labor law posters . Our complete labor law poster combines the mandated state, federal and OSHA posters on one poster. Book Reports Children's Literature Drama ... Young Adult Literature Amy Tan Lesson plans for The Joy Luck Club and other works Sponsored Link The Joy Luck Club E-Notes Lesson Plan A thorough unit plan, featuring activities, quizzes, tests, and more. Also includes the complete eNotes to the novel. Amy Tan: Overview Extensive analysis, including structure, themes, and images. Anniina's Amy Tan Page Biography, extensive links, excerpts, reviews. The Bonesetter's Daughter Twenty discussion questions. The Bonesetter's Daughter Reading Guide Ten discussion questions. The Joy Luck Club Historical background, author biography, related works, discussion questions, related resources, and a thorough teacher's guide. These materials were prepared as part of the NEA Big Read. The Joy Luck Club Study Guide This 6-page guide to the film version requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or compatible application.

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Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: Amy Tan Also known as: Amy Tan Amy Tam A Tan Amy Ed. Tan ... Amy Tan ed. Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Amy Tan combine/separate works The Joy Luck Club 4281 copies, 36 reviews The bonesetter's daughter 2119 copies, 31 reviews The kitchen god's wife 2036 copies, 16 reviews The hundred secret senses 1767 copies, 13 reviews Saving fish from drowning 1132 copies, 28 reviews The opposite of fate : a book of musings 588 copies, 10 reviews 125 copies, review The Moon Lady 69 copies, review The Chinese Siamese cat 50 copies, 1 review 2 copies, review Spark Notes The Joy Luck Club 2 copies, review Klub Held og Gl¦de 1 copy, review 1 copy, review Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars 5 stars Common Knowledge Share what you know. view history You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data. For more help see the Common Knowledge help page Canonical name Gender female Date of birth Date of death Burial location Nationality Places of residence Oakland, California, USA

27. Literary Encyclopedia: Amy Tan Born in 1952 in the predominantly white neighbourhood of Oakland, California, the Chinese American novelist amy tan describes herself as “the average baby http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4311

28. The Big Read amy tan was born February 19, 1952, in Oakland, California. Her parents shared some of the dark history fictionalized in The Joy Luck Club. http://www.neabigread.org/books/joyluckclub/joyluck04_about.php

The Joy Luck Club About the Author Preface Introduction Historical Context About the Author ... Teacher's Guide Amy Tan (b. 1952) Amy Tan was born February 19, 1952, in Oakland, California. Her parents shared some of the dark history fictionalized in The Joy Luck Club . Her mother, Daisy, was born to a wealthy family and left Shanghai and a disastrous marriage right before the Communist takeover in 1949. She was forced to leave behind her three daughters. Tan's father, John, a Baptist minister and electrical engineer, also fled the civil war in China. Tan and her two brothers were raised in Santa Clara, California. Tan was a good student. At age eight, her treatment of the theme "What the Library Means to Me" won her a transistor radio and mention in the local newspaper. When Tan was 14, her brother Peter and her father died within seven months of each other, both from brain tumors. A neurosurgeon gave no explanation other than bad luck. This twin tragedy spurred Daisy Tan to hoist anchor and move the family to Switzerland. After they returned to California, Tan was ready for college, where she eschewed her mother's wish for her to study medicine and studied literature instead. She met her husband, Lou DeMattei, on a blind date in Oregon while enrolled in one of the seven undergraduate institutions she attended. Tan followed him to San Jose, California, where she later earned an M.A. in linguistics in 1973. While in a doctoral program in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, Tan's best friend was murdered. Shocked by the event, Tan left school and started working with children as a language development consultant. Her love of reading reawakened in 1985, when she read many woman novelists for the first time, including Louise Erdrich and Maxine Hong Kingston. Tan settled into a lucrative business-writing career, but restlessness led her to a writing workshop. Her second story, "Waiting Between the Trees," was noticed by a literary agent.

29. Amy Tan Interview With Don Swaim A 1989 interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio. Available in RealAudio. http://wiredforbooks.org/amytan/

Wired For Books home Don Swaim Interviews Audio Interview with Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club , a collection of short stories by Amy Tan, may be about Chinese mothers and their American daughters, but the relationship between mother and daughter can also be applied to families the world over. Much of Tan's writing is influenced by her Chinese upbringing in San Francisco. Growing up, she was caught between parents wanting her to think like a Chinese, where everything exists in relation to the family values, and American peers who aspired for individualism. She considers herself a combination of both cultures. In another book, Rules of the Game , Tan writes about the challenges of a child prodigy of a Chinese family. This story is fiction, but it is based on true events. Tan, since age of 5, was told her destiny in life were to become a neurosurgeon and a concert pianist on the side. The irony in that, however, came when Tan was 15. Both her father and her brother died within six months of each other due to a brain tumor. That tramatic event would stay with her for the rest of her life. To hear more about Tan's family and her adventures, click on the link below.

30. Amy Tan Writer The Joy Luck Club. amy tan was born in Oakland, California, USA; and attended San Jose State Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0848819/

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SYM=GetSymbol('BIO'); my cart home authors books ... Reading Group Guide Amy Tan Amy Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club The Hundred Secret Senses The Bonesetter's Daughter The Opposite of Fate Saving Fish from Drowning The Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat , which has been adapted as Sagwa , a PBS series for children. Tan was also the co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club Email Alerts To keep up-to-date, input your email address, and we will contact you on publication Please alert me via email when: The author releases another book Send this page to a friend About Penguin Group USA Site Map Help ... Penguin Worldwide The Complete Jane Austen Masterpiece Theatre reading guides Find free reading guides to kick start your book club discussion. Click here viewCounter('author', 30, 'Amy+Tan', ''+SYM+'', '');

33. Lyme Disease In Canada, Amy Tan It wasn t until she began having hallucinations about a naked man approaching her bed that novelist amy tan got really worried. http://www.canlyme.com/amy.html

Search this site Home Symptoms Live Discussion ... Our Stories Amy Tan, Ticked Off About Lyme The Novelist, Under Treatment for Late-Stage Lyme Disease, Could Never Have Conceived How Hard It Would Be to Get a Diagnosis or How Surreal the Symptoms Could Be By J.J. McCoy Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 5, 2003; Page HE01 It wasn't until she began having hallucinations about a naked man approaching her bed that novelist Amy Tan got really worried. She first assumed what she was seeing was her husband, who brings her coffee in the morning. "But it was the middle of the night," she recalls, and "he wasn't saying anything or doing anything else. He was just coming toward me [before stopping] next to the bedstand, as though he was turning on the light." She took his silence to mean the worst. "I thought someone was dead," she recalls. "I reached for him, and the image started to warp as I realized it wasn't real." She sprang to in dread and started running through her SoHo loft, calling out for him and very soon finding her flesh-and-blood husband, Lou DeMattai, calmly watching TV. "Oh, thank God, you're alive!" she said.

34. ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Exploring Language And Identity: Amy Tan’s “Mothe In the essay “Mother Tongue,” amy tan explains that she “began to write stories using all Arrange for copies of the essay “Mother Tongue” by amy tan. http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=910

35. KQED | Forum: Amy Tan KQED Public Radio free audio archive of amy tan from the locallyproduced program Forum. http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R511011000

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Web LitPlans.com LitPlans : Amy Tan Lesson Plans, Teacher's Guides, Novel Unit Plans, Study Guides, and more for: Tan, Amy How to Use This Directory A B C ... Amy Tan BookRags The Hundred Secret Senses (Book) (by Amy Tan) Adult/All (Amazon.com) The Joy Luck Club Complete Study Pack (by Amy Tan) BookRags Joy Luck Club Teacher Pack (by Amy Tan) Teacher's Pet Publications Joy Luck Club Puzzle Pack (by Amy Tan) Teacher's Pet Publications The Joy Luck Club Novel Curriculum Unit (by Amy Tan) Center for Learning (Amazon.com) Joy Luck Club Novel Unit (by Amy Tan) Novel Units Inc. (Amazon.com) The Joy Luck Club Cliffs Notes (by Amy Tan) Cliffs Notes (Amazon.com) Joy Luck Club Student Packet (by Amy Tan) Novel Units Inc. (Amazon.com) Joy Luck Club Study Guide (by Amy Tan) SparkNotes (Amazon.com) Contemporary Classics: The Joy Luck Club Teacher Packet and other resources (by Amy Tan) Perfection Learning Corp. The Joy Luck Club Novel Ideas Plus (by Amy Tan) Sundance Publishing The Joy Luck Club Unit Plan (by Amy Tan) Brigham Young Univ. The Joy Luck Club (Movie) (by Amy Tan) (Amazon.com)

37. Amy Tan: Overview amy tan does not see herself as primarily a ChineseAmerican writer focusing on the immigrant experience. She objects to being limited because of her http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/tan.html

High-context Cultures and Low-context Cultures The Joy Luck Club explores the clash between Chinese culture and American culture. One way of understanding the difference is to look at communication in these cultures. Chinese culture can be classified as a high-context culture and American culture as a low-context culture. First I will define these terms, then explain the significance of these two categories, and finally apply them to The Joy Luck Club Culture is the way of living which a group of people has developed and transmits from one generation to the next. It includes concepts, skills, habits of thinking and acting, arts, institutions, ways of relating to the world, and agreement on what is significant and necessary to know. Race, ethnicity, class, and gender are cultural creations; they derive their meanings from the culture. Context is the whole situation, background, or environment connected to an event, a situation, or an individual. A high-context culture is a culture in which the individual has internalized meaning and information, so that little is explicitly stated in written or spoken messages. In conversation, the listener knows what is meant; because the speaker and listener share the same knowledge and assumptions, the listener can piece together the speaker's meaning. China is a high-context culture. A low-context culture is one in which information and meaning are explicitly stated in the message or communication. Individuals in a low-context culture expect explanations when statements or situations are unclear, as they often are. Information and meaning are not internalized by the individual but are derived from context, e.g., from the situation or an event. The United States is a low-context culture.

38. Amy Tan Quotes - The Quotations Page amy tan (1952 ) US novelist more author details amy tan. - More quotations on Power. - 1 Quotation in other collections http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Amy_Tan/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Amy Tan (1952 - ) US novelist [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. Amy Tan Memory feeds imagination. Amy Tan - More quotations on: [ Imagination Memory You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! Amy Tan - More quotations on: [ Power 1 Quotation in other collections Search for Amy Tan at Amazon.com Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total Previous Author: Bill Tammeus Next Author: Andrew S. Tanenbaum Return to Author List Browse our complete list of 3141 authors by last name: A B C D ... Z (c) 1994-2007 QuotationsPage.com and Michael Moncur Please read the

39. Amy Tan A bibliography of amy tan s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/amy-tan/

Fantastic Fiction Authors T Amy Tan Preferences google_ad_client = "pub-4149752303753296";google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/frames/banner.htm";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 60;google_ad_format = "468x60_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="5061332721";google_color_border = "6699CC";google_color_bg = "003366";google_color_link = "FFFFFF";google_color_url = "AECCEB";google_color_text = "AECCEB"; Home Awards New Books Coming Soon ... Years Browse Authors A H O V ... U Amy Tan Search Authors Search Books About Amy Tan Amy Tan is the author of four critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling novels. Her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a recipient of the Commonwealth Gold Award. The Joy Luck Club was also adapted into a feature film in 1994. Her subsequent novels are The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter. She lives in San Francisco and New York. Novels The Joy Luck Club The Kitchen God's Wife The Hundred Secret Senses The Bonesetter's Daughter ... Saving Fish from Drowning Series contributed to Best American Short Stories (with Katrina Kenison) The Best American Short Stories 1999 Non fiction Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America With Three Cords and an Attitude (with Dave Barry Stephen King Tabitha King Barbara Kingsolver ... Mother (with Maya Angelou Mary Higgins Clark The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings Awards Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction Best Novel nominee

40. Amy Tan : The Bonesetter's Daughter : Hundred Secret Senses : The Joy Luck Club Read reviews of The Bonesetter s Daughter, Hundred Secret Senses and The Joy Luck Club by amy tan at MostlyFiction.com. http://www.mostlyfiction.com/world/tan.htm

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