Middlebrow mission: Pearl S. Bucks American China An aromatic blend of America and China: Introducing Pearl Bucks middlebrow mission 1. The sentimental imperialism of American women missionaries in China 2. The Exile and Fighting Angel: Pearl Bucks gendered critique of missions 3. Pearl Bucks Coming of Age: East Wind West Wind 4. Reversing the Middlebrow: The Good Earth 5. China Town hybridity and (Neo ) Missionary notalgia: His own country and kinfold 6. Coda: We havent deserted him exactly we just havent known how to fit him in. The missionaray legacy in Pearl Buck and her fiction Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Bucks engagment with (neo ) missionary cultures in the United States and China was unique. Against the backdrop of her missionary upbringing Buck developed a fictional project which both revised and reaffirmed American foreign missionary activity in the Pacific Rim durinjg the 20th century. Vanessa Künnemann accurately traces this project from Americas number one expert on China as Buck came to be known from a variety of disciplinary angles placing her work squarely in Middlebrow Studies and New American Studies. from back cover