The Kitchen God would thus serve the role of the home domain as he would overlook the daily dynamics of a family, the members and their behavior ( Ting, 2002, pg . 326 ).
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Taoists ( and Buddhists to a lesser extent ) will also " send gods back to heaven " ( ), an example would be burning a paper effigy of Zao Jun the Kitchen God, the recorder of family functions.
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Like two of Tan's other books, ( beginitalic ) The Joy Luck Club ( enditalic ) and ( beginitalic ) The Kitchen God's Wife ( enditalic ), this is a story of manners and culture-a sort of Asian Jane Austen.
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When " Typical American " came out in 1991, a number of very different novels by other Asian-American authors were published simultaneously, including " The Kitchen God's Wife " by Amy Tan and " China Boy " by Gus Lee.
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Like its two best-selling predecessors, " The Joy Luck Club " and " The Kitchen God's Wife, " it explores the complicated relationships between family generations _ how they can hurt, misread, disappoint, surprise and yet still love each other.
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Siming seems to have roots in the shamanic traditions, then later to have somewhat assimilated with the Kitchen God, as in the Daoist case of the Three Worms, in which Siming becomes a deity to whom home household activities are periodically reported,
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Worse, the equation drawn between Miss Banner and Olivia, Yiban and Simon, feels even more strained than the analogy made in " The Kitchen God's Wife " between an abandoned woman's suffering in pre-revolutionary China and her American-born daughter's affliction with multiple sclerosis.
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Far more than with " The Joy Luck Club " and Tan's second novel, " The Kitchen God's Wife, " both of which were fictional versions of her mother's and her relatives'lives, " The Hundred Secret Senses " is a work of pure imagination.
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This God is known as the Purple Goddess or Privy Goddess . " The Privy goddess was worshiped only by woman and no temples have been erected in her honor and has no relation or interaction with the Kitchen god ( pg . 186 ).
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For much of her life, Tan, 43, the Chinese-American author of " The Joy Luck Club " and " The Kitchen God's Wife, " has been a lightning rod for unusual events _ " weird electrical stuff, " prescient dreams, telephones disconnecting at key moments.
