Resistance And Obedience--Women Characters By Pearl S.Buck

Pearl S. Buck is a controversial American woman writer. She is American-born but is attached to China greatly; her works are serious, with didacticism, but very popular, fifteen of them are on the Book-of-the-Month Club Selection; she wins Nobel Prize for Literature, Pulitzer Prize and Howells Medal, but has steeply fallen from critical favor; she is also a humanitarian and advocator of feminism in words and in deeds, although she herself has never admitted She is versatile. The total more than seventy books include novel, play, biography, comment and poem of which forty are about China. With her American-born and China-lived experience, she spares no effort to introduce the genuine China to West in her whole life and is called "human bridge between the civilizations of the East and West."As a woman writer, she is more concerned aboutChinese women. This thesis selects three novels with Chinese women as main characters: The Good Earth, East Wind: West Wind, and Pavilion of Women to show the oppression Chinese women suffer in the man-ruled society and their obedience and resistance which is limited and incomplete because of some objective and subjective reasons. This real description strongly proves Pearl S. Buck as a writer who portrays China truthfully and genuinely.