A CHINESE MOTHER
Mrs , Pearl Buck, the author of several novels with , a Chinese setting, was taken to China by her parents, who were American missionaries, when she was four months old, and she spoke Chinese before she could speak English consequently she is able to create the exact Oriental atmosphere in her writings. Her latest book, ‘ The Mother,’ (Methuen and Co.), is as enjoyable as her previous ones, and once again she gives her readers a clear insight into ‘Chinese customs and thought. ‘ The Mother ’ is a story of the peasant class, a class whose lives are hard,, laborious, but not unhappy. The women' toil with the men in the fields, and their one ambition is to bear as many sons as possible. This accounts perhaps for China’s vast -population. It is hard for the Western mind to understand the Chinese character, but Mrs Buck writes from long experience and with such simplicity and power that the Chinese are revealed as never before.
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Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 19
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164A CHINESE MOTHER Evening Star, Issue 21630, 27 January 1934, Page 19
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