A Real Pearl S. Buck

Author: Yi Qing (ed.)
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: She is regarded as the "Daughter of the Earth." But this "Earth" is not under her feet, but in her dreams, in her heart. She could never "be grounded" in life: the land she loved was in a foreign land, and she had to make the foreign land her homeland. The land she was born in but felt alienated from, estranged from, was her homeland, yet it was not the "homeland she desired," and she had to make her homeland a foreign land. Her roots were on the other side of the Pacific, but her heart was there, so she was seen as a "rootless drifting weed." When she was four months old, she was taken away from that land by her missionary parents and became a "wanderer." She wanted to find a shore to land on, but she didn’t know which shore to choose. She took off, wanting to land on the ground, but suddenly realized she was a "bipedless bird." On that side, she had no place to land; on this side, she had a place but couldn’t land. So she could only fly forever! This book is suitable for scholars or enthusiasts of U.S.-China relations, scholars or enthusiasts of the history of Sino-Western cultural exchange, scholars or enthusiasts of the Nobel Prize in Literature, scholars or enthusiasts of The Earth, and students at all levels.