摘要：

著名美籍华裔女作家谭恩美的作品《喜福会》描述了四位生活在美国的中国母亲与女儿们经历了文化碰撞、谅解、共存的过程。本论文对小说中体现的中国梦与美国梦作了初步的分析,进而对其所折射出的中西文化的冲突与共存做了进一步探析。本论文依据文本中出现的四对母女，将主要分析内容分为四部分，并对每一部分中母亲的中国梦与女儿的美国梦做了对比性阐述。美国梦与中国梦是本文所论文化现象的文化根源。母与女的矛盾冲突是东西两种文化根源相互碰撞的缩影，但因为血脉亲情的存在，她们能够彼此忍让包容，寻找到一种和谐的共存方式，继而使两种文化能够在一个多元的环境中共存。

关键词：中国梦；美国梦；文化根源；碰撞；共存

Abstract:
 
The Joy Luck Club written by famous Chinese-American woman writer Amy Tan described the process of cultural conflict, understanding, and coexistence between four Chinese mothers living in the United States and their daughters. This thesis made a preliminary analysis of Chinese dreams and American dreams which were embodied in the novel, and then made a further analysis of Chinese and western cultural conflict and coexistence reflected by the novel. In the thesis, the author based on the four pairs of mother and daughter who appeared in the novel and divided the main body of the thesis into four parts. Furthermore, the author elaborated mothers’ Chinese dreams and daughters’ American dreams in each section. Chinese dreams and American dreams are the cultural roots of cultural phenomena which were analyzed in the thesis. The conflicts between mothers and daughters are the microcosm of the collision of two different cultures. Because of the presence of blood kinship, mothers and daughters were tolerant to each other, and they could be in harmony, and the two different cultures could coexist in a complex environment.

Key words: Chinese dreams; American dreams; cultural roots; collision; coexistence              

1. Introduction
Amy Tan is another prominent writer after Maxine Hong Kingston in the Chinese American literature. She was born on Feb. 19th 1952 in Oakland, California. Both of her parents were Chinese immigrants. Like other Chinese Americans, She grew up surrounded by influences from both Chinese and American cultures. In addition, Amy Tan’s childhood filled with confusion to her cultural identity. There seemed to be countless contradictions in her life between her ethnicity and the western mainstream culture in which she was educated.