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A accurate portrayal of Tzu Hsi from available resources and the memory of how Chinese women felt about her. She was the Imperial woman. Good and evil mangled in her, but always in her rook dimensioned. She resisted modern change is long as she could, for she believed that the old was better than the new. When she saw change was Arab inevitable, she accepted it with grace but an unchanged heart.
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About the Author:
Pearl S. Buck was born in West Virginia and taken to China as an infant before the turn of the century. Buck grew up speaking Chinese as well as English. She is the most widely translated American author to this day. She has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. She died in 1973.
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"A long, richly woven and to me, quite absorbing novel." -- The Nation
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- PublisherTandem
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0426128885
- ISBN 13 9780426128885
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages432
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