Abstract
Pear S. Buck is a famous American female writer and Nobel Prize winner in Literature in 1938. Buck has lived in China for 41 years. Chinese culture has a profound influence on her works. Most of her works reflect the conflict, understanding and integration of the two heterogeneous cultures between America and China. In recent years, the researches on Buck have boomed dramatically, while there is still a deficiency in the study of Buck's characterization of Chinese images from an American perspective. Based on the traditional images of Chinese in the Good Earth, this thesis reveals the characteristics of Chinese traditional family members shaped by Pearl S. Buck through analyzing the characters of a peasant family and their relations. At the same time, this thesis also explores the characteristics of the kinship relationship written by the native Chinese authors, and compares the two from a comparative perspective, so as to find out the differences between the images of traditional Chinese characters shaped by the American author, Pearl Buck, and other native Chinese writers as well as the causes of these differences.
Highlights
A cursory reading of her works can hardly identify the author’s nationality, while if taking an in-depth look at her novels, it is not difficult to find that this great female American writer, who spent most of her life in China, has never escaped the influence of American culture
The story begins with this couple and their lives on the land in China, showing us the survival and development of an ordinary peasant family during the period of the Republic of China in Chinese Mainland when warlords were at war
Speaking, based on the author’s unique identity, the image study of Chinese characters in the Good Earth belongs to the category of cross-cultural image research
Summary
Buck is a controversial American writer who won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She is an American, she has lived in China for more than forty years. The Good Earth describes the hero Wang lung’s whole life with his family, his experience from a poor young peasant to a rich landlord. O-Lan, Wang lung’s wife, she is plain looking, dull and quiet, but she is a good housewife. She is diligent, loyal, thrifty, and competent. Speaking, based on the author’s unique identity, the image study of Chinese characters in the Good Earth belongs to the category of cross-cultural image research. Studying the characters’ images from different cultural angles and comparing them with the characters’ images shaped by some native Chinese authors can deepen readers’ understanding about the mechanism of image generation in fictions
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