Jing-mei Woo's mother and father, Suyuan and Canning Woo, emigrated from China to live in San Francisco in 1949. Suyuan revived the Joy Luck Club, a weekly mahjong party she began in Kweilin, China. Her first husband, Wang Fuchi, was an officer in the Kuomintang and had left Suyuan and their twin daughters, Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa in Kweilin while he traveled to Chungking. Kweilin was packed with refugees and cultural, ethnic, and class tensions were rampant. Suyuan created the Joy Luck Club with three other women

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