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pinlu 'By birth and ancestry I am American, ... but by sympathy and feeling, I am Chinese.' #PearlBuck said in 1933. p277 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu #PearlBuck's aim was always to maximize the nunber of her readers. p265 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu Kang Liao: #PearlBuck single-handed cursade to change the image of Chinese people in the American mind. p264 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu One of the great turns #PearlBuck did the Chinese people was to help to repel of the Chinese Exclusion Acts. p263 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu 'It took two anchors to hold her.' p262 #PearlBuck #BuryingTheBones

pinlu Storytelling had been an escape for #PearlBuck since she found she could forget her trouble by reading Dickens. p257 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu #PearlBuck remained essentially too skeptical to suit doctrinaires on the Left or Right. p255 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu In the 2nd half of her life, #PearlBuck became a human 'bridge betwn the civilizations of the East and West'. p254 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu Fighting Angel, #PearlBuck's biography of her father, is probably the best book she ever wrote. p252 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu The Exile, #PearlBuck's bigrophy of her mother, was such a critical and popular success. p250 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu #PearlBuck relied heavily on Richard Walsh as an artistic conscience. p250 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu Part of A House Divided is a transcription of #PearlBuck's own response to America. p249 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu #PearlBuck divorced Lossing and married Richard Walsh in one hour. p245 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu #PearlBuck sailed with Janice and Adeline Bucher on May 30 1934 through Japan to US. p242 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu #PearlBuck greatly admired Lu Xun's work, translated by Edgar Snow, going out of her to promote it. p240 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu #PearlBuck arrived in Shanghai Oct 2, 1933. Then returen to Nanjing. p236 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu #PearlBuck asked fro divorce during the trip. Lossing was surprised and distressed. p235 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu #PearlBuck returned to China in July 1933 via Europe with a large party. p235 #BuryingTheBones

pinlu #PearlBuck became a high profile speaker on birth control, race, discrimnation against women and black. p234 #BuryingTheBones