We live in a mobile and global world with the development of technology. Even today, America continues to be the symbol of the land of freedom and opportunity. Arriving in America, Chinese immigrants who come from a traditional, structured old world struggle to find balance in a modern, dynamic new world. To achieve the American Dream, the first generation of immigrants must learn the language, acquire an education, and assimilate into the dominant culture. They courageously leave the past behind except what they carry in memory. Therefore, immigrants often experience shock and resistance in dealing with the new world culture. This is especially true for second-generation Chinese-Americans who resist and are ashamed of their heritage. Amy Tan in The Joy Luck Club dramatizes this conflict that arises between the first and second generations through sixteen stories of four mothers and four American-born daughters. Tan manages to show the strength of the mother-daughter bond from China to America despite the cultural and linguistic differences between Chinese mothers and Chinese-American daughters through the immigrant narrative. Chinese culture is based on Confucius, whose teachings are more practical and ethical than religious. Confucius' virtues include righteousness, fairness, integrity, and filial piety toward parents, living and dead. His teachings also emphasize obedience to the father figure, husband, and eldest son after the husband's death. Therefore, the role of women is that of subordination to men. In a family the male figure maintains absolute power over family matters. While in America gender does not have the same influence on cultural commerce... at the center of the paper... but also on its motherland, China. He is fulfilling his mother's dream of returning home when she said "I am going to China" (Tan 307). Works Cited Liu Wu-Chi. “A Brief History of Confucian Philosophy,” Hyperion Press, 1955. Edwards, Jami. Rev of "The Joy Luck Club", by Amy Tan. The Book Report, Inc. 1999.Shear, Walter. "Generational differences and diaspora". Spring Criticism 1993: 193-199. Network. August 28, 2015. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00111619.1993.9933826 Standley, Anne P. "Maxine Hong Kingston." Notable Asian Americans. Ed. Helen Zia and Susan B. Gall. New York: Gale Research Inc., 1995: 164-6. Tan, Amy. The Joy and Luck Club. Vintage contemporaries. New York: a division of Random House, Inc. 1993.Xu, Ben. “Memory and the Ethnic Self: Reading Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.” Melus. V19. Spring 1994: 3-18.