Buck’s East Wind: West Wind: The feminist side of the Good Earth, where foreign women married Chinese men, long before it was cool
I’m a huge fan of Pearl Buck. From the moment I opened the “House of Earth” trilogy — which includes “The Good Earth”, “Sons” and “A House Divided” — I was hooked, and devoured every word passionately. But yet, there was always one part of the book I found heartbreaking, perhaps for personal reasons. In […]
More Beijing than just Babes: Book Review of Foreign Babes in Beijing
Let’s clear up a few things first. Despite the title of Foreign Babes in Beijing — and the suggestive picture of a foreign girl in a sultry little silk black dress, fishnet hose and stilettos, towering over what seems to be her Chinese hotel fling for the evening — this is not a book about […]