The Image Of Republic Of China In Pearl S Buck’s Text

Pearl Buck is well-known in China and America by creating Chinese stories novels—Trilogy of The Good Earth.Based on the life in Anhui and Jiangsu Province,China,the American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature portrayed the every aspects of society in 1930 s and created the unique Pearl Buck-type images of Republic of China.The complicated and special images are under controversy since its emergence.After the indifferent period,it has been spotted as the research hot issue.It is advocated about Pearl’s concepts towards embrace and understanding.Therefore,there are the realistic meanings for the research towards Pearl’s works.With the bicultural influence,the Chinese image Buck created in Earth Trilogy embodies diversity,regionality and specificity.It is of crucial importance to identify the dominant culture in the forming of Buck type Chinese image.The way to know the uniqueness of the images in Republic of China is to make sense that what kind of culture is dominant for their portrayals.This paper aims at comprehension of text about the images in Republic of China in Earth Trilogy.Initially,it presents the unique world of Republic of China under Pearl’s writing,which shares the same real situation in contemporary period of novel.Then analyze the images of Republic of China between western and eastern culture separately.Through comparisons,the paper points out the limitations of Pearl’s portrayals about images of Republic of China and affirms her objective delineations of Chinese society.At last,the paper significantly analyzes Pearl’s quest for Chinese solution and its choices of cultural thoughts under the time background.Through those,it is known about western culture’s dominant position in Pearl’s cultural thoughts and made sense of her cultural values that combine Chinese culture externally with western culture internally.