| 中文摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-9页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-17页 |
| ·Introduction to Amy Tan and her novel The Joy Luck Club | 第9-11页 |
| ·Existing researches on The Joy Luck Club | 第11-15页 |
| ·Researches on The Joy Luck Club abroad | 第12-13页 |
| ·Researches on The Joy Luck Club home | 第13-15页 |
| ·Purpose and structure of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Memetics | 第17-21页 |
| ·Definition of meme and memetic theory | 第17-19页 |
| ·Existing researches on memetics | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter 3 Cultural Memes in The Joy Luck Club | 第21-45页 |
| ·The four Chinese mothers in The Joy Luck Club | 第21-32页 |
| ·Suyuan Woo's Chinese symbols and her east direction | 第21-23页 |
| ·An-mei Hsu and her mother's life in Old China | 第23-26页 |
| ·Lindo Jong:an unyielding and smart child bride fled from Old China | 第26-29页 |
| ·Both the silent appearance and the strong inside of Ying-ying St. Clair | 第29-32页 |
| ·The cultural memes contained in the four Chinese mothers | 第32-37页 |
| ·The Chinese traditional notions revealed in their experiences | 第32-36页 |
| ·The Chinese Subjective characters showed by the four mothers | 第36-37页 |
| ·A memetic analysis about the Chinese cultural appearances in the Joy Luck Club | 第37-41页 |
| ·The American cultural memes embodied in the daughters' generation | 第41-45页 |
| ·American individualism and freedom | 第41-42页 |
| ·American equality | 第42-43页 |
| ·American superiority | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter 4 Memetic reason of cultural conflicts and concords in mother-daughterrelationship | 第45-47页 |
| ·Memetic explanation to the cultural conflicts leading to relationship confrontation | 第45-46页 |
| ·memetic cause for the cultural concords and subsequent relationship reconciliations | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第47-48页 |
| ·The application of memetics to the study of Sino-American culture in The Joy Luck Club | 第47页 |
| ·The deficiency of the application of memetics | 第47-48页 |
| Bibliography | 第48-50页 |
| Publications during the Postgraduate Program | 第50-51页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第51-52页 |
