Cultural Conflicts of the East and the West in Pearl Buck’s Novels on China

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10.2991/icassee-18.2018.38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pearl S. Buck; cultural conflict; cultural shock; cultural confrontation

Abstract

As the first American woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Pearl Buck is indeed one of the earliest writers who are dedicated to the communication between the East and the West in early 20th Century. She lives both in the world of her American missionary parents and the world of a continually fascinating Orient, China. Therefore, Pearl Buck has deep affection for China and the Chinese people and thus sets China as the subject matter in most of her writings. The thesis is endeavored to explore Buck’s cultural conflicts of the East and the West embodied in her novels by analyzing some of her novels focusing on China and Chinese people, consisting of cultural shock and cultural confrontation between the East and the West.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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