In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, how does the narrator's point of view of her father change by seeing him in a different environment in the chapter "A Pair of Tickets"?

Jing Mei and her father travel to China in "A Pair of Tickets" to meet her half-sisters. The culminating story of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club depicts Jing Mei's final appreciation of her mother's life and her finding the closure that Suyuan desperately sought but never found.
Jing Mei has been learning about her mother throughout the book, but in traveling to China, she is now learning to appreciate her father as well. She notices as they travel that her father, Canning, is undergoing a transformation. He seems younger somehow to her, and she is glad to see her father so happy. Jing Mei compares his look to that of a young boy, and she attributes the change to his coming home to China. “For the first time I can ever remember, my father has tears in his eyes.” Canning is anticipating a reunion with his aunt, who he has not seen for 62 years.
When they finally arrive, Canning “smiles like a pleased little boy.” He calls out to his aunt, “Auntie Auntie!” and she responds with his childhood nickname, “Little Wild Goose.” Jing Mei notes that her father and his aunt are openly crying and laughing simultaneously. Canning’s age and tragedies have disappeared at that moment, and he is transported temporarily back to a happier time in his life.
The trip brings Jing Mei’s epiphany that Canning has suffered greatly. All his life, he tried to be strong for Suyuan and to support her in the loss of her two babies. More recently, he has had to endure the sudden death of his wife and the revelation that those two babies had grown up and were living in China. When Jing Mei’s aunties found Suyuan’s long-lost children, Canning had to deal with the loss of Suyuan all over again. Jing Mei is not the only one who is suffering. “Suyuan didn’t tell me she was trying all these years to find her daughters,” Canning says. Father and daughter travel such a long way to meet Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa, both thinking that Suyuan should be there with them.
Additionally, Jing Mei learns to look to her father as a source of knowledge. He can provide the missing pieces to Suyuan’s tragic story of giving up her children to save their lives. Canning tells how Suyuan fled with her babies when the Japanese entered Kweilin, how she lost all her possessions, how she became ill and thought she would die, and finally how she left her children on the side of the road with a note and money, begging someone to care for them. Now, he can tell Suyuan’s real story. Jing Mei also receives a lesson from her father on the importance of names. Jing is “something pure, essential, the best quality…pure essence.” Mei, as in mei mei, means “younger sister.” Thus, it is Canning who brings Jing Mei the message that Suyuan was unable to deliver in life: her three daughters are precious to her.
This trip to China allows Jing Mei to better understand her mother’s life and to find the closure she needs to accept Suyuan’s death. The trip also helps Jing Mei to see her father in a new light and to better appreciate him.