A selective list of online literary criticism and lighter reading for Chinese American novelist Amy Tan, including signed articles by recognized scholars, peer and editor reviewed articles, and web sites that follow MLA guidelines for web pages.
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Adams, Bella. An introduction to Amy Tan from the Literary Encyclopedia, June 2004
Adams, Bella. "Representing history in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife," in Melus taken offline, Summer, 2003
Ma, Sheng-mei. "Chinese and Dogs" in Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses: Ethnicizing the Primitive a la New Age - Melus taken offline, Spring, 2001
Mistri, Zenobia "Discovering the ethnic name and the genealogical tie in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." Short Fiction, Summer, 1998
Hamilton, Patricia L. "Feng Shui, Astrology, and the Five Elements: Traditional Chinese Belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." Melus taken offline, Summer, 1999
Xu, Ben. "Memory and the ethnic self: reading Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." - Special Issue: Varieties of Ethnic Criticism, in Melus taken offline, Spring, 1994
A special New York Times feature on Amy Tan includes Times reviews of her books
The Joy Luck Club movie review, in National Review, Nov 15, 1993 by John Simon
An overview of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, from a class at City Univ. of NY
A brief overview of Amy Tan from textbook publisher Heath
An introduction to Amy Tan from Longmans course companion
This web page by an Amy Tan fan has a number of links, (some dead), to popular newspaper articles and interviews with Amy Tan
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