喜福会书评 英文

第一篇：喜福会书评 英文

The Expression of Love

——Book Review on The Joy Luck Club “The Joy Luck Club” is the story about the four central pairs of Chinese immigrant mothers and daughters born in America: Suyuan Woo and Jing-mei “June” Woo, An-mei Hsu and Rose Hsu Jordan, Lindo Jong and Waverly Jong, and Ying-ying St.Clair and Lena St.Clair.The novel shows us conflicts between mothers’ hopes and daughters’ disobedience and rebellion.The conflicts and misunderstanding may result from the generation gap and cultural difference, however, in my point of view, what rigidifies their relationship is the way of expressing love.It is no doubt that the mothers and the daughters love each other deeply and mothers spare no effort to give daughters everything they could provide.From mothers’ perspective, they hope daughters a brighter further and full of promises.So they express their love by planning daughters’ blueprints and then impose their will on daughters and force them to walk their scheduled path.And for daughters, especially those live in an American, they struggle for individual freedom and wish to live their own way.Due to schemed future, they cannot accurately make a definition for their identities.Under this condition, criticism form mothers and rebellion for daughters become how they express love.In this way, love becomes a heavy burden for both of them.Mothers and daughters need to express their love in the right way.So empathy and effective communications is of great importance.Mothers should show their love according to their daughters’ interest or at least make them know why they make the choice for them.Fortunately, the novel ends up with the reunion of mothers and the daughters.It is evident that due to mothers’ telling frank stories and daughters’ patient hearing, soul communication has happened among them.They perceive the deep love form each other.So expression of love is significant and remarkable.The novel teaches us how to express our love and is worth reading.参考文献

[1] Tan, Amy.1989.The Joy Luck Club [M].New York: Ivy Books.[2] A Study of Communication Barriers Between Mothers and Daughters in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.

第二篇：喜福会中文版书评

《喜福会》中文版书评

《喜福会》中所描写的四位母亲，在40年代带着旧中国的苦难和传统文化，从中国大陆移居美国。那时的美国是她们心目中的天堂，在美国她们希望自己的女儿再也不会重复旧中国妇女的不幸，不再重蹈她们的覆辙。对孩子她们寄予无限的希望，她们想按自己的理想规划女儿的前程。但是，这些在美国出生长大的孩子们自幼接受的是美国的文化，在她们看来，母亲的想法与行为既荒唐又可笑，于是双方各执己见，互不相让，从而产生了很深的矛盾。

这些矛盾其实从根源上讲源自两国文化的差异。其一体现在语言上，我们可以发现这样一个有趣的现象，即使在家庭中，所有成员的对话都是使用英文，但母亲们的英文中总会夹着些许的汉语词汇，特别在她们急于表达某种意义的时候。我们相信，对于母亲来说，中文永远是她们的母语，就像中国永远是她们心灵深处的家。只要她们愿意，这语言随时能够从她们嘴里流利而出。所以苏坚持办着“喜福会”，因为这是母亲们心中传统文化的栖息之地，让她们这群身处异国他乡，徘徊在主流文化边缘的异乡人，可以穿起中国服装，用母语闲聊、讲故事，在强烈的本土文化氛围中感受精神上的慰藉。而反之，这些第二代移民随着年月的增长，甚至已经完全忘记了自己本来是个中国人。她们不再使用中文，而是用流利的英语进行交流。即使在打麻将的这样一个传统的场合，她们也不允许母亲们在和她们的交流中夹杂中文，因为她们不知道她们“是不是在作弊”。语言的不通，自然在很大程度上造成了母女之间信息交流的闭塞，直至双方都陷入沉默。其二体现在家庭观的差异上，在中国的传统观念中，家庭既代表了家长对子女的绝对权力，又意味着家长与子女之间相互依赖的关系。但在美国的个人主义价值观则鼓励各人奋斗，强调自我实现和独立意识。苏一直以来都把对在大陆下落不明的两个双胞胎的“亏欠”转化成希望寄托在女儿君的身上。她望女成凤，一直用自己心目中的母爱方式对君进行着“天才培养计划”，并在君有所反抗的时候强势地喊出：“女儿只有两种，服从母命和随心所欲的，但这房子只容得下服从的。”可是君这样在“自由国度”长大的孩子如何能理解母亲的苦心，她也不甘示弱地对母亲吼着：“我又不是你的奴隶，这里不是中国，你逼不了我！”此后，母女俩的分歧一直持续了二十多年，君故意忽视母亲的期盼，也使自己最终成为了一个碌碌无为的人。薇莉自幼有着下棋的天赋，却因看不惯母亲拿着自己的荣誉到处炫耀而赌气说不再下棋，而她倔强的母亲林多却认为自己对薇莉的苦心栽培不仅没有得到女儿应有的尊重和回报，就连为女儿骄傲这么无可厚非的表现都被女儿当作是失去面子的事情，从而失望不已，以致很长时间不再“干涉”女儿的生活，永远一副不喜不悲的表情，母女之间的隔阂由此而生，“失语”长达了二十多年之久。

虽然母女间误会重重，但并不意味着双方无法弥合，找不到交汇点。因为，她们受着双重文化的渗透，具有双重文化意识，使得她们在用美国方式解决不了问题时，潜意识中的中国文化意识又会有所作用，反之亦然。双重身份注定使她们在两种文化之间极力寻求调和。最终本书也形成了相对完美的结局：君也终于明白了母亲对自己所有的期盼，不过是好好地生活下去。当她在麻将桌的母亲东首位置坐下的那一刻，我们似乎看到了女儿/西方已经开始认真接纳母亲/东方。林多视女儿的幸福为自己最大的快乐，她对薇莉婚姻的宽容和接受在一定程度上也表现出了她对美国文化的接受和对两种文化差异的尊重。在李娜要爱情不要过度依赖的所谓平等婚姻中，正是母亲的一席话唤醒了她内心深处对真正感情的渴望，“尊重，温柔”才是她真正想要的。美国个人主义的平等自由并不是在所有地方都行得通。同样，在爱情婚姻中失去了自我的罗丝被母亲的故事深深震撼，那股流淌在她身体之中的中国人自强不息的血液让她彻底清醒，自己并不是社会，家庭之外的“他者”，她就是一个完整的个体。而她的自尊自强也最终重新获得了丈夫的爱情和尊敬。

本书通过讲述中国移民如何承续中华文化优秀传统，如何吸收美国文化的精髓，向大家传递着一种淡化文化身份界定，消除文化对立，从而达到全球化的多民族文化相互交融和平共处的主张。

第三篇：喜福会书评

《喜福会》所讲述的是四位华人移民妇女和她们在美国长大的儿女各自之间的故事。小说的题目《喜福会》原是母亲们打麻将的聚会。这些妇女移居美国已有几十年，但她们仍念念不忘从小受过的传统教育，恪守着中国几千年来渗透于妇女血液之中、几乎已成为天性的封建男权的思想。她们共同的理想就是要严格教育、管束自己的女儿，使她们能逃脱自己这一辈女人的命运，成为她们眼中幸福的女人。然而，对于母亲的管束，女儿们则以各自不同的方式一味反抗，在这个种族、阶级、性别不平等的美国社会里，两代女性上演了一出由相互争斗到殊途同归、相互认同的悲喜剧。在这出悲喜剧中，给人留下印象最深的不是人物口中道出的事情，而是那些她们无法启口、无法触及、讳莫如深的事情，是沉默背后的东西。在这里，沉默已经变成了一个象征，它那巨大的毁灭性力量摧毁着女性赖以生存的自尊、自信和勇气，使她们在沉重的压抑之中丧失生存的能力。然而一旦打破沉默，这毁灭性的力量就会立刻消失，被压抑已久的人性就将得到复苏，平衡和谐的关系就会得到恢复。《喜福会》中母女们的悲欢故事大部分都是以沉默和打破沉默这条主线编织起来的。

例如在吴苏圆和吴晶梅这对母女之间，许多年的时间就是在沉默中度过的。母亲在女儿童年时曾坚决而“狠心”地以做清洁工为代价让女儿有机会去学习钢琴，希望把她塑造成一个有别于自己、能为白人社会所接受的高雅女性。而女儿却“不懂事”地一味反抗母亲的意志、母权的统治。在一次华人社区举办的少年天才表演比赛上，女儿演奏得一塌糊涂，让争强好胜的母亲当着亲朋好友丢尽了脸面。回到家里，女儿满以为母亲要朝她大发雷霆。然而，这时的母亲却一反常态地平静如水，缄口不语，脸上一副“毫无内容”的麻木表情，沉默得令人恐惧。没有受到训斥的女儿的表现同样令人吃惊：面对母亲的沉默她的反应既不是吃惊，也不是轻松，更不是害怕，而是“失望”！因为这样她就没有办法“也朝她（母亲）大喊大叫，把心中的痛苦哭出来，摔回到她身上去”。在这里，沉默就像长在母女心中的一块恶性肿瘤，把双方都折磨得痛苦不堪。这件事情过去之后的很多年里，它一直是母女之间不敢提及的禁忌话题。女儿再也不弹琴了，母亲也不坚持让她弹了。琴盖锁住了女儿的痛苦，同时也锁住了母亲的希望。沉默中女儿长大了，母亲也衰老了。沉默的结果是“母亲和我（晶梅）从未互相理解过。我们相互翻译对方的意思，我听到的内容似乎总比她说的少，而母亲听到的却总比我说的多”。相互间的沉默和误解持续了很多年。在女儿过三十岁生日之时，母亲把这架闲置了多年的钢琴作为生日礼物送给了女儿，但这已经是母亲临终的愿望了。当女儿再次打开琴盖，弹起往日觉得很难的一支曲子时，她竟惊奇地发现这首曲子并不像她想象的那样难了。母女之间的这些无言的行动象征着沉默的被打破和两代人之间最终的理解与谅解。然而，代价毕竟太大了。它牺牲掉了母亲一生对女儿的期望和女儿半生的欢乐，并在女儿的心灵上留下了永远无法愈合的伤疤。至此，我们不难看出沉默所蕴藏的巨大的破坏力。

值得我们注意的第二个例子是莹映·圣克莱尔和莉娜·圣克莱尔这对母女之间的故事。她们的沉默已经不仅仅是话语的消失，而是整个人的消失，是对自我的不断贬低和最终的抹杀。这是男权社会中女性终极的悲哀。可叹的是当母亲的一代已经失去了自我之后，女儿又在不知不觉中重复着母亲的故事，尽管她曾经是那么激烈地反抗过母亲的意志。故事的一开始作者就以母亲的口吻写道：

许多年来我总是把嘴巴闭得紧紧的，不让自己的愿望流露出来。因为我沉默得太久，女儿已经听不到我的声音。她坐在她那豪华的游泳池旁，听到的唯一的声音就是她那索尼牌随身听中发出的声音和她那身材高大无比的丈夫（的声音）……

这么多年来我总是把自己隐蔽起来，像个小小的影子般跑来跑去，这样就没有人能抓得到我。我的动作是那么的隐蔽，以至于女儿对我都熟视无睹。她所看到的就是她的购物单，她的记帐本和她那张整齐的桌子上摆着的扭曲的烟灰缸。

我想告诉她（女儿）的只有这句话：我们俩人都已经消失了。没人能看见我们，我们也看不见别人；没人能听到我们的声音，我们也听不到别人的声音。没有人认识我们。（Tan，1993：64）

正如这位母亲的这段内心独白所描述的，她为了掩饰自己屈辱而辛酸的过去——无情的丈夫另觅新欢，腹内的婴儿被她为报复丈夫而狠心地杀掉，独自逃出家庭，寻找生路——在受尽了生活的折磨之后她变成了一只“老虎”，一个“看不见的幽灵”，一个能未卜先知、看穿一切、预测一切灾难的女巫般的人物。（这样的女预言家或女巫般的人物在美国少数民族女作家的作品中也常见，如托尼·莫瑞森、爱丽斯·沃克等人的作品中的母亲形象，这一点也非常耐人寻味）。尽管她后来碰到并嫁给了善待她但却不了解她的美国丈夫，随他移居美国，离开了恶梦般萦绕在她心中的故乡和过去发生的一切，但此时的她已经沉默得太久，失去了生命力：

我怎能不爱这个人呢（她的美国丈夫）？但这是一种幽灵般的爱。明明双手紧紧地搂住了他，却根本没有碰到他；明明一碗满满的米饭摆在眼前，却一点胃口都没有，我不知道什么是饿，也不晓得什么是饱。（Tan，1993：286）

而正是这样一个沉默了半生，感情、精神上几近麻木、死亡的母亲在看到女儿面对的不幸婚姻时，却出于母爱的本能果断地打破了自己的沉默：

我要用这尖锐的痛去穿透女儿厚厚的皮，把她体内的“虎气”也释放出来。她必定会反抗。因为这是老虎的天性。但我终究会战胜她，把我的精神输入她的体内。这就是母亲爱女儿的爱法。（Tan，1993：286）

母亲为了拯救女儿准备采取行动了，那么女儿呢？这位听着索尼牌随身听，喝着可口可乐，在母亲眼中只知道物质享受的新一代华人妇女的命运又是怎样的呢？她的故事远没有母亲的那么一清二楚、黑白分明。她自认为在学业、智力、工作能力等各方面都能与丈夫平分秋色，甚至在某些方面胜他一筹：是她出主意协助丈夫创办了他们自己的建筑设计公司。因此她认为无论从哪个角度来说她都“应该得到这样一个丈夫”。而事实上她的婚姻，以至于她的整个生活都在美国式的“帐目均摊”的貌似平等的游戏规则下悄无声息地松动着、瓦解着。她在游戏之中竟渐渐忘记了游戏最初的目的，失去了是非观念和自我意识，到最后甚至幻想以经济上的忍让与多付出来换取丈夫的感情。失败的结果使她完全丧失了自尊和自信。面对男权的威慑，她深深地感到了自身的嬴弱和无助，变得束手无策，哑口无言：

我开始哭泣，我知道这是哈罗德一贯讨厌的。我一哭他就会不舒服，发脾气。他认为我这是在耍手腕儿。可我真的忍不住，因为我意识到自己根本就不清楚这场争吵最初的起因了。我是想让哈罗德站在我一边吗？是想少付一些那一人一半的费用吗？我真是想结束俩人之间这种凡事都算得一清二楚的生活方式吗？即使真的那样，我们不还是会照样在心里算这些帐吗？那样我不就会觉得更糟糕，更不公平吗？……

这些想法全不对头，全讲不通，我一样也说不准，整个人都陷入了绝望。（Tan，1993：180）

莉娜提出的实在是个令人困惑而又发人深思的问题。的确，女权主义最初的目的是要在政治、经济、社会地位等方面争取男女平等。用在我国流行了很长时间的一句话来说，女性的解放很大程度上就意味着“男女同工同酬”。我们姑且不谈这个理想是否已经实现。就算是真的已经实现，女性就真的从此能与男性平分秋色了吗？莉娜的故事就是对这个问题最好的回答。锱铢必究的形式上的平等掩盖了问题的实质，那就是更隐藏、更根深蒂固的男权主义思维定式和人们早已习焉不察的男权观念。莉娜对这令她有苦难言的男权观念的沉默与忍让把她推入了一个无言、无奈、无望的境地。一段婚姻葬送在“男女平等”的生活方式之下，这难道不是对某些人头脑中的“平等”概念具有讽刺意味的新阐释吗？可以断言，女性的这种沉默才是女权主义者和全社会更应备加关注的现象。在这里，“分摊帐目”变成了一个意味深长的讽刺，一个在更广阔的背景下具有实际意义的暗喻。

在《喜福会》中，沉默的主题似乎无处不在，但又仿佛是作者在漫不经心中流露出来的。书中的女性不仅是沉默的受害者，也是将沉默锻造成一把锋利无比的剑去互相伤害的杀手。小说中的琳多和魏芙丽这对母女就是最典型的代表。女儿魏芙丽少年时代很有下棋的天赋，每逢与人对弈都犹如有神人在暗中相助，无往而不胜。她在学校和市、州级的比赛中都捧回过奖杯，这令做母亲的颇为自豪。她走在街上，逢人便拿出登有女儿照片的杂志封面向人炫耀。这引起了女儿的反感。争吵之后，母亲一连几天缄口不语，对女儿下棋的事情不闻不问。最后，女儿沉不住气了，主动与母亲讲和，又继续参加比赛。然而，奇怪的是从此以后她身上的那股神奇的力量不见了。她一输再输，直到最后不得不放弃了下棋，从一个天才的棋手变成了个“普通人”。这不能不说是一种超现实的描写。女儿身上神奇的力量自然是母亲所赋予的，而母亲的沉默竟永远地夺去了她的天赋。在母亲的眼中，女儿的生活是透明的，一切都逃不出她的眼睛。但是，当女儿带着她参观自己新布置的住所，希望间接地告诉她自己已再婚的消息，并迫切希望得到她的首肯与祝福时，母亲却作出一副充耳不闻、事不关己的样子，或者顾左右而言它，或者干脆不予理睬，把女儿悬在了沉默的半空中，使她受到了比来自话语更加深重的伤害。对这一点女儿有着切肤的体会：“我妈妈懂得怎样让人痛苦，这种痛苦比任何其他形式的痛苦都更加深重”。这位母亲能让“白色变成黑色，黑色变成白色”，让女儿经过精心调整、自以为满不错的新生活——包括新婚的丈夫、自己的女儿与新继父之间和谐的关系、丈夫送她的贵重礼物裘皮大衣、精心布置的家；一切的一切都变得一无是处、毫无价值可言。母亲利用沉默这把利剑把女儿戳得鲜血淋漓、体无完肤，而更可悲的是女儿从母亲身上继承来的那不可救药的心理情结（非要得到别人的肯定才能生活得心安理得）。一个非要不可，一个执意不给，这场不见硝烟的沉默战争使母亲和女儿都身心交瘁，伤痕累累，在双方感情上造成了本不该有的深深的伤害。一天，当女儿下定决心要去找母亲说个清楚时，她才在母亲睡熟的时候霍然发现，自己那强大的“敌人”原来不过是一个毫无攻击力，甚至是不堪一击的老妇人，这是多少年来她第一次发现母亲的真实面孔。经过一番母女间推心置腹的交谈。女儿终于认识到：

真的，我终于懂了，不是懂了她刚才所说的话，而是那些原本就是真实的事情。

我明白了自己一直是为何而战的：是为自己，一个被吓坏了的孩子，一个老早以前就逃到了一个自认为安全的地方躲起来的孩子。我躲在这看不见的掩体后边，心里很清楚对面藏着的是什么：是她从侧面可能发起的攻击、她的那些秘密武器，还有她那洞察我一切弱点的高超本领。然而，就在我把头伸出掩体，向外窥视的那一瞬间，我终于发现了那里的一切：那是一个用铁锅当盔甲，用毛衣针作利剑的老妇人，一个因久等女儿的邀请而不得，正在变得脾气暴躁的老妇人。（Tan，1993：204）

这是一段多么形象、生动的描述！母女间多年感情、心灵上相互间的沉默给对方造成了难以弥补的创伤。而这沉默一经打破，战争的阴影也随之散去了，取而代之的是两代女性之间可贵的重新认识和相互理解，是女性的觉醒。她们终于认识到，在一个“种族、性别歧视的世界里，女性之间应该成为朋友，成为同盟”。对于书中的两代女性来讲，要想相互破译对方的真实思想——那些掩盖在各种形式的沉默之下的真实思想是件非常艰难的事情。但无论怎样，她们都以各自的方式打破了令人窒息的沉默，年轻一代的女性从母亲身上汲取了精神的营养与力量，以积极乐观的态度面对新的生活。这正是小说的结尾处吴晶梅在母亲去世之后代表母亲去大陆寻找她失散多年的双胞胎姐姐一幕所象征的。三姐妹在母亲的故土上终于搂在一起，多年的归乡之梦、母女和姐妹团圆之梦都随着沉默的打破而实现了。这是让人多么欣喜的一幕！

谭恩美是华裔女作家中的第二代，她与王玉雪（Jade Snow Wang）和汤婷婷这些年长于她的华人女作家一样，沿袭了母女关系这一写作题材。她们都各自从自己母亲的身上汲取了写作灵感和素材。这正是其成功的原因之一。在她们的作品中，“母亲的苛求所代表的就是男性的苛求”，是男权社会渗透于她们意识深层的自我贬低、自我排斥、自我抹杀的传统观念，是一种可怕的集体无意识。在这样的观念之下，她们自然永远无法达到母亲的要求，也无法正视原本的自我。无论她们怎样努力改变自己，以何种标准改变自己，其结果却总是更多的失败和更大的痛苦。这是一些华人女性最大的悲哀。从这个意义上说，《喜福会》给我们的启示之一就是：在美国，所谓的多元文化，也就是亚文化与主流文化保持一致的新格局，从本质上来说不过是一场掩人耳目的把戏，是对亚文化的同化和心理侵略的掩盖。那么，与其他少数民族的女性一样，华裔女性只有重新找回原本的自我，打破文化的沉默和性别的沉默，按照自己的方式自尊、自信、自主地面对生活，才能最终进入“喜与福”的境界。

最后，再让我们回到本文开头提出的一个问题：在看到了作者通过她的16位女性人物一一讲述的那些埋在她们心底的故事，了解了她们深深的沉默背后的心曲，对那些我们曾经那么习以为常、司空见惯的问题作出了新的思考之后，无论你是男性还是女性，身处西方还是东方，你还能把这部小说当作一块轻松可口的小点心来消化吗？这里，我们不禁又想起了海明威那著名的冰山理论，我想它在这里也同样适用：如果人的话语世界占他整个世界的十分之三，那么有谁因此就能忽视那冰面之下十分之七的沉默世界的力量呢

第四篇：喜福会英文观后感

My Reflection of The Joy Luck Club

I wonder that when seeing the name The Joy Luck Club most people would treat it as a story filled with happiness and love.In fact, besides love, it is also about the cultural conflicts between four daughters and their mothers.The film is based on the best seller by Amy Tan of the same name.It shows us the lives of four Chinese women who were immigrants to America during the 1950s.As a mother, each of them has a lot of problems with their daughter because of cultural conflicts.The misunderstanding of love between the mothers and their American-raised daughters, the clash between the generations and cultures, and the struggle for the women to fight for equity touch every audience’s heart.Though I was also attracted by something with extensiveness——I want to talk about some points about the language.I had learnt that what are high context communication and low context communication and what is different between them.The former is one in which most of the information is internalized in a person, while very little in the coded, explicit, transmitted part of the message——we must guess what the real meaning of the words is;while the other is the opposite.Chinese just the stands for the former and English is the representative of the latter.An interesting scene in the movie just shows us this.When Waverly’s boyfriend Richie had a dinner with Waverly’s big Chinese family for the first time, he made some stupid mistakes.He brought his typical American habit when the they were eating and he couldn’t understand what Lindo(Waverly’s mother)mean when she said “ He has an appetite”.When Lindo brought a dish which she was very proud of, as a Chinese, she still said some formulae that the dish was not salty enough and it was too bad to eat;that suggested that everyone around the table should speak highly of her dish after their first degustation;while Richie didn’t understand that Chinese all like to be modest and he criticized Lindo’s cooking, just saying what he thought in his mind directly.What Richie did led to a very embarrassing atmosphere in the dinner and made Lindo very disappointed and

disgraced.The misunderstanding of a different culture and a different language is the mainly reason causing the awkward occasion.If Richie had known what he had faced with was a group of people with different culture and saying a high context language, and had done some preparation for that different traditional Chinese dinner, he could have avoid to making so many foolish mistake.To understand what a Chinese mean you could not just follow the superficial message transmitted by his words, instead, you should connect those words to his cultural background and the situation you are in.By appreciating the movie we could realize the culture of a people from their language.In this movie the cultural conflicts between the mothers’ traditional Chinese concept and the daughters’ up-to-date American concept are fully described by their dialogues and soliloquies.In conclusion, a language is really the mirror of a culture;and if we want to understand the marrow of a culture we could appreciate its language.

第五篇：《喜福会》英文观后感

My views on The Joy Luck Club

I'm really touched after watching the movie.I enjoyed it very much and it made me have a deep thinking about women’s rights and their thoughts.The Joy Luck Club is about mothers trying to teach their daughters lessons, but the daughters do not understand.All four mothers went through hardships to learn this lesson when they were young and now they try to teach their daughters the right mix of American culture and Chinese principles.The daughters are unable to understand where their mothers are coming from and they just ignore them.In the movie the mothers can’t express the lessons that they learned as children, to their daughters because they don't understand;however finally they understand.When Lindo was only twelve, she was forced to move in with a neighbor's young son, Huang Tyan-yu, through the machinations of the village matchmaker.After some training for household duties through her in-laws, she and Tyan-yu married when she turned sixteen.She soon realized that her husband was just a little boy at heart and had no sexual interest in her.Lindo began to care for her husband as a brother, but her cruel mother-in-law expected Lindo to produce a grandson.She restricted most of Lindo's daily activities, eventually ordering her to remain on bed rest until she could conceive and deliver a child.However,Ying-Ying’s destiny are not like this.From a young age, Ying-Ying is told by her wealthy and conservative family that Chinese girls should be meek and gentle.This is especially difficult for her, she feels, because she is a Tiger character.She begins to develop a passive personality and repress her feelings as she grows up in Wuxi.Ying-Ying marries a charismatic man named Lin Xiao, not out of love, but

because she believed it was her fate.Her husband is revealed to be abusive and openly has extramarital relationships with other women.When Ying-Ying discovers she is pregnant.She drowned her baby as a revengy to her husband.I was shocked after finish this part.So I serched the internet and found a few

information about marrige in ancient China ,women’s status and divoce in nowadays.In the past, parents arranged marriages were very common.Usually young people would have their spouse decided by their parents.Sometimes young people could only have the first look of their spouse at their wedding.It was also common that

sometimes an arranged marriage could be organized even before the child was born as long as parents from both families agreed.For centuries before the early 1900's, there was a prominent male domination in the country of China.Women were deprived of all rights and were present mainly to serve men.Women served as slaves, concubines, and prostitutes.Marriages were arranged, sometimes preparing a female from infancy to serve her future husband.This can be seen most effectively by the practice of foot binding.Beginning around the eleventh century, foot binding became a tradition.When a girl became three or four years of age her mother would tightly wrap her daughter's feet in bandages with her toes tucked under the soles.On top of this excruciating pain, the bandages would be

tightened each day.If a woman's feet weren't bound she was considered unsuitable for

marriage.In fact, it was preferred that the foot be around 3 inches in length.However,in modern days, things have changed quite a lot.Free love prevails and lovers can choose to get married with whoever they love.Of course, in order to show their respect to their parents, formal agreement has still to be obtained prior to any proper marriage procedure.And there is no foot binding any more.The increasing population of males with white collar jobs and liberal marriage laws have both contributed to the rising divorce rate in China.More mature women in China are turning to dating agencies, looking for new mates, after their husband left them for females ten years younger.On the other hand, more men with high paying jobs find themselves surrounded by young paramours.China's liberal divorce laws have given women a chance to break free from

unhappy marriages or marriages that were arranged by their families.But today, it is often the man who is taking advantage of such laws to leave the marriage, once he finds himself in a comfortable financial situation, for a young lover tucked away somewhere.Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.So,we should still try our best to protect women’s right.