Pearl S. BuckRachel Choi-F Block

Background Pearl Sydenstricker

Buck The Good Earth &

Dragon Seed Modernism Philanthropist Nobel Prize winner Chinese & American

history

Modernism Approximately from 1930 to 1950. After WWII Realistic values F Scott. Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, James

Joyce Individualism, frustration, cultural

divergence

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)

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

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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