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Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography Hardcover - 1996

by Peter Conn

Pearl Buck was one of the most renowned, interesting and controversial figures ever to influence American and Chinese cultural and literary history--and yet she remains one of the least studied, honored or remembered. This cultural biography of the author of The Good Earth offers a dual portrait of Buck, a figure greater than history cares to remember, and of the era she helped to shape.Photos.


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Pearl S. Buck was one of the most renowned, interesting, and controversial figures ever to influence American and Chinese cultural and literary history--and yet she remains one of the least studied, honored, or remembered. In this richly illustrated and meticulously crafted narrative, Conn recounts Buck's life in absorbing detail, tracing the parallel course of American and Chinese history. This "cultural biography" thus offers a dual portrait: of Buck, a figure greater than history cares to remember, and of the era she helped to shape.

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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 China and was bilingual from childhood. Although she is best known, perhaps, as the prolific author of The Good Earth and as a winner of the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Buck in fact led a career that extended well beyond her eighty works of fiction and nonfiction and deep into the public sphere. Passionately committed to the cause of social justice, she was active in the American civil rights and women's rights movements; she also founded the first international adoption agency. She was an outspoken advocate of racial understanding, vital as a cultural ambassador between the United States and China at a time when East and West were at once suspicious and deeply ignorant of each other. In this richly illustrated and meticulously crafted narrative, Conn recounts Buck's life in absorbing detail, tracing the parallel course of American and Chinese history and politics through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This "cultural biography" thus offers a dual portrait: of Buck, a figure greater than history cares to remember, and of the era she helped to shape.

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  • Title Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
  • Author Peter Conn
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 500
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1996-08-26
  • ISBN 9780521560801 / 0521560802
  • Weight 1.93 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.37 x 1.24 in (24.18 x 16.18 x 3.15 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Novelists, American - 20th century, China - Social life and customs
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95043105
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/15/1996, Page 397
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/1996, Page 1201
  • Library Journal, 09/01/1996, Page 186
  • LJ Best Books of Year, 01/01/1997, Page 49
  • New York Times, 11/17/1996, Page 13
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1996, Page 90
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/22/1996, Page 218
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