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Beyond The Good Earth :

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1946684767

(Number (ISBN

9781946684769

Erroneous ISBN

1946684775

Erroneous ISBN

9781946684752

Erroneous ISBN

9781946684776

Title Proper

Beyond The Good Earth :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Transnational Perspectives on Pearl S. Buck /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Jay Cole and John Haddad.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Morgantown :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

West Virginia University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (197 pages)

Text of Note

Features papers from the Pearl S. Buck Living Gateway Conference, held on the WVU campus in Morgantown, West Virginia, September 11-13, 2016.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction / Jay Cole and John Haddad -- Pearl Buck, Raphael Lemkin, and the struggle for the genocide convention / David M. Crowe -- Pearl Buck and the evolution of American foreign policy : reflections and speculations of her film biographer / Donn Rogosin -- Pearl Buck's strategic vision : decolonization, desegregation, and Second World War imperatives / Charles Kupfer -- Chinese culture "going global" : Pearl S. Buck's methodological inspiration / Junwei Yao -- Pearl S. Buck's Promising Legacy in South Korea : the Pearl S. Buck Foundation and the rise of Korean multiculturalism / T.J. Park -- "Always in love with great ends" : Pearl S. Buck on Sun Yat-Sen and his nationalist revolution / David Gordon -- China's recent realization : the real peasant life portrayed by Pearl S. Buck / Kang Liao -- Gateways into The good earth : myth, archetype, and symbol in Pearl S. Buck's classic novel / Carol Breslin -- "Not having to be alone is happiness" : the Cal Price writing workshops at the Pearl Buck birthplace as catalysts for a glocal writing community / Rob Merritt.

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"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 literature, 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, and civil rights activism"--

Title

Beyond The Good Earth.

Buck, Pearl S., (Pearl Sydenstricker),1892-1973-- Criticism and interpretation

Buck, Pearl S., (Pearl Sydenstricker),1892-1973-- Political and social views

Buck, Pearl S., (Pearl Sydenstricker),1892-1973.

Novelists, American-- 20th century-- Political activity, Congresses.

Novelists, American-- 20th century, Biography, Congresses.

Women political activists-- United States, Biography, Congresses.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

Novelists, American-- Political activity.

Novelists, American.

Political and social views.

Women political activists.

United States.

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LIT-- 004020

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Edition

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Book number

Cole, John J. K.

Haddad, John Rogers

Pearl S. Buck Living Gateway Conference(2016 :, Morgantown, W. Va.)

Date of Transaction

20200823064247.0

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[Book]

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