Joy Luck Club

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soon tell you about. After Suyuan dies June is supposed to take her mother’s place at the table. Even though June follows a lot of American ways now and doesn’t really understand mahjong or enjoy it she follows the Chinese tradition and plays it. History shows that these events matched up correctly to China in the 1930’s. At this time the Second Sino-Japanese War was being- fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan from 1937–1945. The country was tore apart, many people died, families got separated, and some people moved to America. Also I found out that Mahjong was a real game that was popular in China. Mahjong was supposed to be created by Confucius, the Chinese philosopher, who developed the game in about 500 BC. And from the 1920’s this game began to be brought to America and played, but there were different versions based on the culture playing it, which we also learned in the book (Hays).
The next mother we learned about was Lindo, who had a matchmaker ...

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