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so a correct attitude to our culture should be held. At the end of the novel, the understanding and reconciliation not only shows the author’s inheritance of Chinese traditional novels, but more important, embodies a correct attitude towards culture, that is, to inherit the mother culture and to absorb the new culture and to find balance between cultures. Today, in the multi-cultural context, if the traditional Chinese culture is given up, there would be no bridge between tradition and new cultures, but if only the native culture is taken seriously and the differences between cultures is exaggerated, the conflicts between cultures will be more intense, and then, there will be no hope of peace, common development and prosperity. Conclusion In the novel the Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan describes the conflicts between the mothers and the daughters. The misunderstandings between the mothers and the daughters in the novel are caused by the different cultural backgrounds and experiences. Fortunately, through painful efforts, the mothers and the daughters begin to understand and communicate each other at the end of the story, which metaphorically demonstrates the transition of the relationship between Chinese and American culture from conflicts to blending. As to our Chinese culture, it faces many challenges in the context of globalization. Although learning new technologies from other countries and absorbing the essence of other cultures are necessary, Chinese culture should be protected. History and present interacts each other, and they inherit each other. There's no country in the world which can ignore the past with today’s prosperity. If anyone forgets his past, and loses his history, he will become a person without history and tradition, and he cannot really locate himself in the multi-cultural society, and he will lose the base of development. The Chinese nation has a long and old history; the Chinese-American's history which is bestowed by their nature shouldn't be ignored, and this is the real reason for the mothers to try to combine their history with their lives in American and pass them on to their daughters. In this sense, the aim of recalling the history is to grasp the present and the future better. Bibliography [1] Beidler, Peter G. Writing Matters. Chengdu: Sichuan University Press, 2003. [2] Ling, Amy. High Context Cultures and Low Context Cultures. December 13, 2004. [3] Shear, Walter. The Joy Luck Club-- Generation Dichotomy of Culture.1993. [4] Souris, Stephen. Only Two Kinds of Daughters:Inter-Monologue Dialogicity in The Joy Luck Club in Amy Tan, ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2000. [5] 程爱民. 论谭恩美小说中的母亲形象及母女关系的文化内涵[J]. 南京师大学报(社会科学版). 2001,（4）. [6] 刘海平，王守仁. 新编美国文学史（第四卷）[M]. 上海：上海外语教育出版社，2002. [7] [美] 谭恩美著，程乃珊译.喜福会[M]. 上海：上海译文出版社, 2006. [8] 谭恩美. 喜福会: 哈佛蓝星双语名著导读[M]. 天津：天津科技翻译出版公司，2003. [9] 王兆胜. 林语堂.脚踏中西文化[M]. 北京:北京出版集团; 津文出版社. [10] 张从益. 中西文化比较研究[M]. 长沙：湖南人民出版社，2004. [11] 张琼.华裔文学中的中国文化形象[J].中华读书报. 2005, (3).