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题 目Literature Review of Pearl Buck 文献综述—赛珍珠 课 程 英美女性文学作品赏析 教 师 史丽娜 学 生 唐林 学 号 104050063 班 级 003 2013年7月1日 Literature Review of Pearl Buck I. Introduction…………………………………1 II. Domestic Studies………………………….. 1 III. Western Studies………………………….. 4 IV. Comments and Limitations……………... 7 Works Cited……………………………………7 I. Introduction Pearl Buck (1592一1973) is one of the most famous novelists in the 20th American literature. Born in Hillsboro, west Virginia. Her Parents, Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, were southern Presbytran missionaries stationed in China. She was taken to China when she was about three months old, where she spent most of the first forty years of her life. She was the first American women writer to won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Her novels have enjoyed great popularity in the whole world. She composed many wonderful works, and The Good Earth is her masterpiece. Once lived in China, she considered the great place as her second hometown. Many of her works were created based on the Chinese and she was greatly influenced by the Chinese culture. she translated one of the most popular novels—Walter Margin to the west, which gained great response and was favored widely. She was great writer as well as a great person to promote the interaction of culture between China and western countries. In China, people have made studies on her from different angles, which is a special contribution to the “Study on Pearl Buck”. This paper is to review the study made on her both by the domestic and western scholars. II. Domestic Studies The domestic scholars studied Pearl Buck from different perspectives. To review the main researches, personally, I’d like to divide them into three parts. Feminism Many scholars chose to discuss the feminism of Pearl Buck, which