The Joy Luck Club (Ep. 19)

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Amy Tan’s original novel, published in 1989. Read it on Amazon or iBooks.
• The 1993 movie, directed by Wayne Wang, written by Amy Tan and Ronald Bass, and starring Ming-Na Wen, Tamlyn Tomita, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, Lauren Tom, Lisa Lu, Kieu Chinh, and Rosalind Chao. Watch it on Amazon or iTunes.

Footnotes:

• Automated Dialog Replacement (ADR)
• Rosalind Chao’s portrayal of Keiko O’Brien on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Ming-Na Wen’s portrayal of Melinda May on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Dr. Jing-Mei Chen on ER
• The Myth of Fingerprints

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