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As a work that reflects culture differences between China and America,the Joy Luck Club has drawn a wide attention from scholars whose researches are more of holistic analyses from a macro perspective of cross-cultural communication.In accordance with the degree of dependence of semantic on dialogue context and dialogue language itself,Edward Hall divides culture into high-context culture and low-context culture,and holds that Chinese culture is a high-context culture,while American culture is a low-context one.According to Hall’s theory,the Sino-US cultural conflicts reflected by the mother-daughter conflicts in the Joy Luck Club can be analyzed from high-context and low-context culture perspective.And after conflicts,there finally will be a harmonious trend of Sino-US culture development,changing from clash and conflict to convergence and integration.
As a work that reflects culture differences between China and America, the Joy Luck Club has drawn a wide attention from scholars whose researches are more of holistic analyzes from a macro perspective of cross-cultural communication. In accordance with the degree of dependence of semantic on dialogue context and dialogue language itself, Edward Hall divides culture into high-context culture and low-context culture, and holds that Chinese culture is a high-context culture, while American culture is a low-context one. According to Hall’s theory, the Sino-US cultural conflicts reflected by the mother-daughter conflicts in the Joy Luck Club can be analyzed from high-context and low-context culture perspective. And after conflicts, there finally finally be a harmonious trend of Sino-US culture development, changing from clash and conflict to convergence and integration.