... dynamics of migration experienced by Chinese-American families. The medium for this perspective is the experiences of Lindo and Waverly Jong, the mother and daughter characters portrayed in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (Putnam, 1989). Lindo is an immigrant from China who found her way to the United States after surviving a flood that separated her from her family, a failed first marriage and war. Waverly is born to ... Lindo and her second husband Tin Jong in the United States and becomes a national ... child chess champion as a child. Political and economic upheaval is the most often ....

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