IV-5 Why culture counts（可以查看本单元练习答案）

• Text A：Speaking Chinese in America（录音与翻译）

What does Chinese Americans（美籍华人） refer to?

such as 严歌苓（Yan Geling）（her masterpiece《金陵十三钗》）

谭恩美(Amy Tan),（her masterpiece《喜福会The Joy Lucky Club》）

Amy Tan (born February 19,1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships.In 1993,Tan's adaptation of her first novel,The Joy Luck Club（1989）,became a commercially successful film.The book has been translated into 35 languages.
Tan has written several other bestselling novels,including The Kitchen God's Wife,The Hundred Secret Senses,The Bonesetter's Daughter and Saving Fish From Drowning.She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate:A Book of Musings.Her most recent novel Saving Fish From Drowning explores the tribulations experienced by a group of people who disappear while on an art expedition in the jungles of Burma.In addition to these,Tan has written two children's books:The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa,the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994),which was turned into an animated series airing on PBS.She also appeared on PBS in a short spot encouraging children to write.

stereotypes of Chinese Americans

exotic---mysterious---smart---diligent---polite---tolerant

Summarize the main idea of the text in one sentence.

Your summary should contain

1）type of writing

2）developing skills

3）purpose of writing

1. "Take it! Take it!" my mother scolded in Chinese, as predictably as the lunar cycles.

2. As any child of immigrant parents knows, there is a special kind of double bind attached to knowing two languages.

3. English is often bracketed with the label of inconsistency, a language of too many broken rules.

4. I worry that the dominant society may see Chinese people from a limited perspective, hedging us in with the stereotype.

5. But after a while, it annoys, as if the only things that people heard one say were what had been filtered through the sieve of social niceties

6. At this junction, I do agree in part with The New York Times Magazine article.

7. Have you stopped beating your wife?