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Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck. Rachel 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

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Pearl S. Buck

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  1. Pearl S. Buck Rachel Choi-F Block

  2. Background • Pearl Sydenstricker Buck • The Good Earth & Dragon Seed • Modernism • Philanthropist • Nobel Prize winner • Chinese & American history

  3. Modernism • Approximately from 1930 to 1950. • After WWII • Realistic values • F Scott. Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, James Joyce • Individualism, frustration, cultural divergence

  4. The Good Earth(1931) • 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Bibliography Pictures • http://www.born-today.com/btpix/buck_pearl.jpg • http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_O_L1W8HmE8E/Sm1_yw0KpHI/AAAAAAAAAvg/w6DOqO9qGpU/s400/china-america.jpg • http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n26/n132022.jpg • http://hotcupofcoffee.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/cover-dragonseed.jpg • http://www.orlok.com/cyberbil/pearl2/graphics/pport.jpg

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