How does The Joy Luck Club show the significance of parent- child relationships?

The role of the parent- child relationships is one where
the younger generation has to learn from the previous one's experiences.  In this, Tan
validates the relationship between parent and child.  The daughters only understand the
full implications of their places in the world because of their mothers.  In each
narrative, the emergence of maturation into understanding their own private lives is
something that is enhanced through the instruction and guidance of the mothers.  The
daughters understand what their mothers' experiences were in China, helping them
reconfigure and comprehend their own conditions in life. The parent- child relationship
is vitally important in understanding this configuration.  Tan demonstrates that the
social conditions of sexism in the modern setting can be counteracted when daughters
grasp the conditions of their mothers, and when mothers are able to share their
conditions with their daughters.  This affirmation of the bond helps to build solidarity
amongst women from different age groups and helps to create an understanding of feminism
that can counteract the social condition of patriarchy.  In this, Tan makes the private
bond between mother and daughter possess political significance in how it can challenge
social conditions of silence and oppression.