Pearl Buck in China
Subtitle: journey to The good earth
By: Hilary Spurling
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781416540427; 9781439180440
Description: An engrossing biography of Buck, a woman whose fascinating life gave her a unique outlook on the plight of women and the suffering of China's rural poor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Family of ghosts; title: Mental bifocals; title: The spirit and the flesh; title: Inside the doll's house; title: Thinking in Chinese; title: In the mirror of her fiction; title: The stink of condescension; title: Paper people.