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Chinese Civil War
Chinese civil war occured in the start of 1927 and ended 1950. Taiwan's Republic of China and mainland China's People's Republic of China was fighting over the legitimate government of China. In the end, both claiming to be the legitimate government of China. This conflict could be related to the storyline when the daughters was explaining about their mother's tragedy. -
Mao's People Reublic of China
Mao was the leader of People Republic of China at the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing. Since 1920, China is going through the civil war and had a full scale attack to Japan at 1947, China is having a huge problem. Money was worthless, a lot of the people were poor, and had a high unemployment rate. This relates to the story because of how hard of life families had. http://www.china-profile.com/history/hist_list_1.htm -
Attacks against China
Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo China. This caused an outbreak for people in China because they were worried that they'll be unsafe in the future for other nation's attacks. Many of the people in China dissagreed in this attack against others, while they just wanted to stay put for defending themselves http://www.china-profile.com/history/hist_list_1.htm -
Treaty of Friendship
China and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty of Friendship. This could affect the storyline of the book on how it was written. China and the Soviet Union had a meeting to have full-scale attack on Japan. This war could be the cause of the book on how The Joy Luck Club's families got seperated between each other. http://www.china-profile.com/history/hist_list_1.htm -
China's invade of Tibet
Battle of Chambo, also known as the Invasion of Tibet, occured after a fail negotiation between Taiwan and mainland China.The whole point of the invasion is to kill their official government and to get Tibetan representatives to agree to attend negotiations in Beijing and sign terms recognizing their power over Tibet. This invasion is very similar to the storyline that the daughter's mother story was told http://www.china-profile.com/history/hist_list_1.htm -
UN's Global Arms
United Nations places a global arms embargo on China because China's involvement in Korean War. Book, The Joy Luck Club, is mainly based off of the storyline when children's parents got seperated from their child and daughters telling the story of what happend. The author, Amy Tan, could've related this event to the story in the book. http://www.china-profile.com/history/hist_list_1.htm -
Farmers
All land is collectivized and farmers are organized into (large) People's Communes. In the book, Jing-mei's family was a farmer and purely relied on farming to live on. This could've been the main reason on why Amy tan decided to give Jing-mei's family a farming job instead of any other kinds of work they would live to survive with. http://www.china-profile.com/history/hist_list_1.htm -
White Night Riots
White Nights Riots was an event that occured purely to assassinate San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and of Harvey Milk, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors who was the first openly gay elected official in the United States. This could've caused the author, Amy Tan, to think different than she had originally planned to write about. http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=White_Night_Riot:_A_Policeman%27s_View -
The Joy Luck Club.
The Joy Luck Club was made by Amy Tan as her best selling novels she ever published. She worked on it for about 4 years, 1985-1989, and finalized for publishing in San Francisco. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_Luck_Club_%28novel%29 -
San Francisco's Earthquake
San Francisco, where the The Joy Luck Club was published at. On the same year that was published, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area. It killed 67 people and caused more than $5 billion damages throughout the earthquake. It is known for the most deadliest earthquake happend in the United States. This earthquake could've caused the author to have multiple conflicts as for time it had to be published, twist of the storyline, and much more. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecke
