Editing Amy Tan (section)

==Critical reception==
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Tan's writing has been praised for its bravery in exploring both the personal struggles and triumphs of immigrant families.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2024-01-04 |title=Amy Tan {{!}} The National Endowment for the Humanities |url=https://www.neh.gov/award/amy-tan |access-date=2024-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104020132/https://www.neh.gov/award/amy-tan |archive-date=January 4, 2024 }}</ref> Her first book, ''The Joy Luck Club'', which is considered a prominent contribution to the Modern Period of American literature, was called "a jewel of a book" by the New York Times, noting Tan's "deep empathy for her subject matter" and the "rare fidelity and beauty" of her storytelling.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schell |first=Orville |date=2021-10-21 |title=Review: 'The Joy Luck Club,' by Amy Tan |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/books/the-joy-luck-club-amy-tan.html |access-date=2024-01-04 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> ''The Joy Luck Club'' went on to be a bestseller, and was a finalist for both the [[National Book Award]] and the [[National Book Critics Circle Award]]. That book, and her subsequent novels, have spent forty weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers list.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-04 |title=Where to Start with Amy Tan {{!}} The New York Public Library |url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/02/19/where-start-amy-tan |access-date=2024-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104021451/https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/02/19/where-start-amy-tan |archive-date=January 4, 2024 }}</ref>

In 2021, Tan was presented the [[National Humanities Medal]] for her contribution to expanding the American literary canon, and in the same year won the [[Carl Sandburg|Carl Sandburg Literary Award]].<ref name=":0" /> Tan also received the Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service for her contribution to world community.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-04 |title=Powell, Mamet, Berners-Lee, Tan and Thorne Win 2005 Common Wealth Awards |url=https://pnc.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=3473&item=74039 |access-date=2024-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104022648/https://pnc.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=3473&item=74039 |archive-date=January 4, 2024 }}</ref>

Tan has received criticism, notably from Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, a professor at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], who  wrote that Tan's novels "are often products of the American-born writer's own heavily mediated understanding of things Chinese,” and author [[Frank Chin]], who has said that her novels "demonstrate a vested interest in casting Chinese men in the worst possible light".<ref name="cynthia">Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia (1995). "Sugar Sisterhood: Situating the Amy Tan Phenomenon". p. 55.</ref><ref name="xiaohuang">Yin, Xiao-huang (2000). "Chinese American Literature Since the 1850s''. p. 235.''</ref> Tan, in response, however, has dismissed these criticisms, stating that her works arise from her personal family experiences as a Chinese-American and are not intended as a representation of the general Chinese/Asian American experience.<ref name="lily">Lee, Lily (2003). "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Twentieth Century, 1912-2000". p. 503.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gioia |first=Dana |date=2007-05-01 |title=A Conversation With Amy Tan |url=https://www.the-american-interest.com/2007/05/01/a-conversation-with-amy-tan/ |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=The American Interest |language=en-US}}</ref>