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<h1>Burying the bones : Pearl Buck in China / Hilary Spurling.</h1>
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<td>Pearl Buck in China.</td>
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<td>London : Profile, 2010.</td>
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<td>9781861978288 </td>
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<td>340 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports ; 23 cm.</td>
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<td>Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house, often stumbling across the tiny bones of baby girls who had been suffocated at birth. Buck's father was a terrifying figure, with a maniacal zeal for religious conversion's a passion rarely shared by the local communities he targeted. He drained the family's budget for his Chinese translation of the New Testament, while his aggrieved, long-suffering wife did her utmost to create a homely environment for her children, several of whom died tragically young. Pearl Buck would eventually rise to eminence in America as a bestselling author, but in this startlingly original biography, Spurling recounts with elegance and great insight her unspeakable upbringing in a China that was virtually unknown to the West. </td>
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<td>Family of ghosts -- Mental bifocals -- Spirit and the flesh -- Inside the doll's house -- Thinking in Chinese -- In the mirror of her fiction -- Stink of condescension.</td>
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