Автор: Spurling, Hilary Название: Pearl Buck In China ISBN: 1416540431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781416540434 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 12260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: One of the twentieth centurys most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West.
She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long before anyone else, she foresaw Chinas future as a superpower, and she recognized the crucial importance for both countries of Chinas building a relationship with the United States.
As a teenager she had witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution, and as a young woman she narrowly escaped being killed in the deadly struggle between Chinese Nationalists and the newly formed Communist Party.
Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers.
She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the terrorist uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion forced her family to flee for their lives. It was the first of many desperate flights. Flood, famine, drought, bandits, and war formed the background of Pearls life in China.
"Asia was the real, the actual world," she said, "and my own country became the dreamworld."
Pearl wrote about the realities of the only world she knew in The Good Earth. It was one of the last things she did before being finally forced out of China to settle for the first time in the United States. She was unknown and penniless with a failed marriage behind her, a disabled child to support, no prospects, and no way of telling that The Good Earth would sell tens of millions of copies.
It transfixed a whole generation of readers just as Jung Changs Wild Swans would do more than half a century later. No Westerner had ever written anything like this before, and no Chinese had either.
Buck was the forerunner of a wave of Chinese Americans from Maxine Hong Kingston to Amy Tan.
Until their books began coming out in the last few decades, her novels were unique in that they spoke for ordinary Asian people "translating my parents to me," said Hong Kingston, "and giving me our ancestry and our habitation." As a phenomenally successful writer and civil-rights campaigner, Buck did more than anyone else in her lifetime to change Western perceptions of China. In a world with its eyes trained on China today, she has much to tell us about what lies behind its astonishing reawakening.
Автор: Buck Pearl S. Название: The Good Earth ISBN: 1982147172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982147174 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 13030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The timeless Pulitzer Prizewinning masterpiece following a humble farmer's journey through 1920s China returns with this beautifully repackaged edition that celebrates its nearly ninety years as an American classic.
Travel to 1920s China, a time when the last emperor still ruled and the sweeping changes of the twentieth century were distant rumblings, with this timeless, evocative classic tale of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his family as they struggle to survive in the midst of vast political and social upheavals.
Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions, and rewards.
';A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe' (The New York Times), this brilliant novelbeloved by millionsis a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history.
Автор: Buck Pearl S. Название: The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother ISBN: 1788690494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788690492 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21830.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Название: Study Guide to The Good Earth by Pearl Buck ISBN: 1645423700 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781645423706 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7800.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Pearl Buck`s The Good Earth, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932.
Автор: Cole Jay, Haddad John R. Название: Beyond the Good Earth: Transnational Perspectives on Pearl S. Buck ISBN: 1946684759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781946684752 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How well do we really know Pearl S. Buck? Many think of Buck solely as the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good Earth, the novel that explained China to Americans in the 1930s. But Buck was more than a novelist and interpreter of China. As the essays in Beyond The Good Earth show, she possessed other passions and projects, some of which are just now coming into focus.Who knew, for example, that Buck imagined and helped define multiculturalism long before it became a widely known concept? Or that she founded an adoption agency to locate homes for biracial children from Asia? Indeed, few are aware that she advocated successfully for a genocide convention after World War II and was ahead of her time in envisioning a place for human rights in American foreign policy. Buck’s literary works, often dismissed as simple portrayals of Chinese life, carried a surprising degree of innovation as she experimented with the styles and strategies of modernist artists.In Beyond The Good Earth, scholars and writers from the United States and China explore these and other often overlooked topics from the life of Pearl S. Buck, positioning her career in the context of recent scholarship on transnational humanitarian activism, women’s rights activism, and civil rights activism.
Автор: Buck Pearl S. Название: The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir ISBN: 1504047966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781504047968 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A "groundbreaking" memoir about raising a special-needs daughter in an era of misinformation and prejudice--a classic that helped transform our perceptions (Publishers Weekly).
It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights.
Pearl S. Buck is known today for earning a Nobel Prize in Literature and for such New York Times-bestselling novels as The Good Earth. What many do not know is that she wrote that great work of art with the motivation of paying for a special school for her oldest daughter, Carol, who had a rare developmental disorder.
What was called "mental retardation" at the time--though some used crueler terms--was a disability that could cause great suffering and break a parent's heart. There was little awareness of how to deal with such children, and as a result some were simply hidden away, considered a source of shame and stigma, while others were taken advantage of because of their innocence.
In this remarkable account, which helped bring the issue to light, Pearl S. Buck candidly discusses her own experience as a mother, from her struggle to accept Carol's diagnosis to her determination to give her child as full and happy a life as possible, including a top-quality education designed around her needs and abilities. Both heartrending and inspiring, The Child Who Never Grew provides perspective on just how much progress has been made in recent decades, while also offering common sense and timeless wisdom for the challenges still faced by those who love and care for someone with special needs. It is a clear-eyed and compelling read by a woman renowned for both her literary talent and her humanitarian spirit.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author's estate.
Название: Pearl Buck, Part 1 of 4 ISBN: 1288553838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781288553839 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Название: How It Happens: Talk about the German People, 1914-1933 ISBN: 1258483300 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258483302 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 41630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: , Buck Pearl S. Название: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John ISBN: 154725288X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781547252886 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Abandoned by their American GI fathers and Korean mothers, four young boys live under a bridge as a family with Matthew, the oldest, serving as the father. Sam, an American soldier invites them to the Christmas party on the base, where the boys begin a new life. Sam and his wife adopt Matthew who continues to worry about all those left behind. An inspiring story of self-reliance, compassion and moral courage in the face of daunting odds, this book deals with racial prejudice, abandonment and the responsibility of being a father to a family.125th Author's Birthday Editionand 50th Anniversary of First Edition
Автор: Cornelia Cornelia, Spencer Spencer Название: The Exile S Daughter a Biography of Pearl S. Buck ISBN: 0353302538 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780353302532 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 39500.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Buck, Pearl S. Название: Good Earth ISBN: 147673304X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476733043 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 6890.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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