The Joy Luck Club is a must-read for people interested in intercultural communication and mother-daughter relationship.It consists of sixteen interwoven stories about conflicts between immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and between couples.The writer sets out to explore the clashes from a cross-cultural perspective,mainly discussing the Chinese and western cultural differences and similarities.She focuses on four topics—hope,individuality,equality and experience and finds out that the clashes are not only caused by culture differences but also by other factors,e.g.generation gap. The Joy Luck Club is a must-read for people interested in intercultural communication and mother-daughter relationship. It consists of sixteen interwoven stories about conflicts between immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters and between couples. The writer sets out to explore the clashes from a cross-cultural perspective, mainly discussing the Chinese and western cultural differences and similarities. He focuses on four topics-hope, individuality, equality and experience and finds out that the clashes are not only caused by culture differences but also by other factors, eggeneration gap.