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Born of missionary parents and brought up in China, the author devotes the major part of this autobiography to a social and political description of China, from the Boxer Rebellion to 1953. The last part of the book tells of her return to the United States, her interest in helping the unwanted children of the world, her work for international understanding. Through it all there are her books and her own family life.
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"A study of characterization, this book examines images of Chinese women in five of Pearl S. Buck's novels. It argues that these characters are typical and individualized to different degrees and that the degree to which a character is typical or individualized is determined by the overall themes of the novel in question. Therefore, characterization is not studied in isolation. Rather, it is investigated in relation to other aspects of the novels....
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The Good Earth, written by Pearl S. Buck, is a historical fiction novel that was published on March 2, 1931. A year later it won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. The Good Earth sold well and resulted in Pearl S. Buck writing two more novels in the same trilogy, Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). The novel is about a Chinese family who lives in a village on the cusp of World War I. It tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family...
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Pearl Buck was one of the most renowned, interesting, and controversial figures ever to influence American and Chinese cultural and literary history - yet she remains one of the least studied, honored, or remembered. Peter Conn's Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography sets out to reconstruct Buck's life and significance, and to restore this remarkable woman to visibility.
Born into a missionary family, Pearl Buck lived the first half of her life in...
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