Pearl Buck

He met with author Pearl Buck, who sent him a long memo, which Donovan condensed and forwarded to Roosevelt, warning that the Japanese would exploit in their propaganda American racism toward Asians.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

He met with author Pearl Buck, who sent him a long memo, which Donovan condensed and forwarded to Roosevelt, warning that the Japanese would exploit in their propaganda American racism toward Asians.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Pearl Buck, Winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.

Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought" Jason Silva 2011

He and Pearl Buck would become the two most influential China watchers of their day in the United States, writers of very different character and background whose work probably did more than anything else to alter public perceptions of the country and its people.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Pearl Buck raised too many awkward questions, exposed too much unpalatable reality, remained essentially too skeptical to suit doctrinaires on the Left or Right.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

When she was a little girl in China at the turn of the 20th century, Pearl Buck used to play by herself in a cemetery near her missionary parents 'home.

The Origins of a Best Seller 2010

Best-selling author Anchee Min's latest novel delves into the life of Pearl Buck and her childhood friend and narrator Willow.

What We're Reading 2010

“No other book by any foreigner has ever achieved such popularity in China,” wrote Liu Hai-ping, the leading Chinese authority on Pearl Buck.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Pearl Buck in China: journey to the good earth / Hilary Spurling.—1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Pearl Buck borrowed techniques from the Chinese novel in episodic sagas covering vast territories and spanning several generations, preoccupied less with individual characterization than with the expressive power of a broad filmic vision and harsh Dickensian imagery, to penetrate the deep underlife of Chinese people, and to draw Western readers in after her.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010