Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth
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The much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary life in China.The Washington Post - Leslie T. ChangThis elegant, richly researched work is at once a portrait of a remarkable woman ahead of her time, an evocation of China between the wars, and a meditation on how the secrets and griefs of childhood can shape a writer…Spurling's biography is a compelling tribute to the woman who first focused American attention on [China].
MapForeword: Burying the Bones1 Family of Ghosts 12 Mental Bifocals 333 The Spirit and the Flesh 714 Inside the Doll's House 925 Thinking in Chinese 1256 In the Mirror of Her Fiction 1627 The Stink of Condescension 197Postscript: Paper People 233Sources and Acknowledgments 255Key to Sources 259Notes 261Note on Transliteration 287Index 289
