Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth Adam Hamilton Benjamin Harris (1781-1858) was a

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Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth Adam Hamilton Benjamin Harris (1781-1858) was aOne of the twentieth century's 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 China's future as a superpower, and she recognized the