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Title:
Pearl Buck in China : journey to The good earth
Author:
Spurling, Hilary.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2010]

©2010
Physical Description:
xii, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
Contents:
Family of ghosts -- Mental bifocals -- The spirit and the flesh -- Inside the doll's house -- Thinking in Chinese -- In the mirror of her fiction -- The stink of condescension -- Paper people.
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9781416540427
Format :
Book