Abstract: The Joy Luck Club is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It has received continuing popularity after its publication. It describes four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco, California. In this novel, growing up in different cultural contexts, the mothers and daughters always contradict with each other and they find it hard to construct their cultural identities. As cultural symbols, Chinese food and Mahjong easily capture the attention of readers in the novel. So this paper takes mahjong as a point-cut to analyze the special function of mahjong in the process of female cultural identity construction in this novel. By this it shows the wisdom of mahjong and enlightens us in daily lives.
Key Words: Mahjong; Cultural identity construction; Mother-daughter relationship; The Joy Luck Club

摘  要： 《喜福会》是谭恩美所著的一部畅销书。自其出版以来，备受关注热捧。它描绘了在加利福尼亚旧金山的四个中美移民家庭。在小说中，由于成长于不同的文化环境，母女之间经常出现矛盾并且她们也发现构建自身的文化十分困难。而作为文化符号， 书中的中国食物与麻将很容易受到读者的观众。因此本文以麻将作为切入点分析麻将在小说中女性文化身份构建所起的独特作用。希望本文展示出麻将的智慧，并使人们在日常生活中得到启发。
关键词：麻将；文化身份构建；母女关系；喜福会