Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. BuckRachel Choi-F Block
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Background Pearl Sydenstricker
Buck The Good Earth &
Dragon Seed Modernism Philanthropist Nobel Prize winner Chinese & American
history
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Modernism Approximately from 1930 to 1950. After WWII Realistic values F Scott. Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, James
Joyce Individualism, frustration, cultural
divergence
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Wang Lung, O-lan, Lotus, Uncle Hardworking Chinese farmer, toiling for success The richest man in town Conflicts between materialistic desires & his
own principles value of land Exotic Chinese culture western societies Love of the land, corrupting influence of the
wealth, and inferior status of women Vivid illustration of Chinese culture
The Good Earth(1931)
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Dragon Seed (1944) Ling Tan, Lao San Ordinary Chinese farmer
experiences Japanese invasion Nanking Massacre
Family destroyed, sons become guerrillas
All men are evil Dark side of Chinese history Outrageousness of man’s
inhumanity in wartime, sense of peace
Buck’s own experience
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So… Combined the Chinese
culture & western culture
Once-mysterious culture more familiar
Evocative novels about Chinese culture
Buck: benefactress, Pulitzer & Nobel Prize winner, writer of bicultural novels
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