Writing across the Pacific

Born to American missionary parents, Pearl S. Buck lived in China for most of her first 42 years. Her first novel, East Wind: West Wind, was one of many she wrote about Chinese people and culture, at a time when Chinese were legally barred from migrating to the US, and widely discriminated against here. Jocelyn Eikenburg wrote in 2008 about how she saw some of her own cross-cultural experiences reflected in Buck’s novel, which joins the public domain in 41 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown

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