Pearl Buck and the Real China
LMOST all Pearl Buck’s work has a Chinese background; more than that, it is Chinese through and through. Some of Anne Bridge’s novels have a Chinese background-‘" Pekin Picnic" and "The Ginger Griffin,’ for example. But while Anne Bridge portrays the life of English people in China, scarcely touching Chinese civilisation itself, Pearl Buck writes of the real Chinese-the peasants toiling unremittingly and uncomplainingly, the landowners, the merchants, the scholars, and aboye all, the women. You will remember probably seeing the film of her greatest novel "Good Earth? in which Paul Muni and Luise Rainer played with outstanding success the parts of the struggling peasant and his silent, dogged slave-wife. Pearl Buck has had ample opportunity of learning to know the Chinese. Though she was born in Virginia, she spent her childhood in China, where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sydenstricker, were missionaries. Apparently the little girl had few white children to play with, and thus she was thrown into the company of Chinese and came to know well their way of life and habits of thought. When she was little she loved to listen to the tales of her Chinese nurse.-"A Few Minutes with Women Novelists-Pearl Buck," by Margaret Johnston, 2YA, February 22.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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