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Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck's engagement with (neo-)missionary cultures in the United States and China was unique. Against the backdrop of her missionary upbringing, Buck developed a fictional project which both revised and reaffirmed American foreign missionary activity in the Pacific Rim during the 20th century. Vanessa Künnemann accurately traces this project from America's number one expert on China - as Buck came to be known - from a variety of disciplinary angles, placing her work squarely in Middlebrow Studies and New American Studies. »An important and long overdue contribution to the research on Pearl Buck and on Western missions to China in general. Künnemann manages to position herself within a densely populated academic field, taking stock of her forerunners work. The depth of the primary and secondary research will make future work on Buck much easier.« Dominika Ferens, Amerikastudien, 62/1 (2017)

Missionaries in literature. --- Buck, Pearl S. --- Bak, Bīrl, --- Bak, Perl, --- Bak, Pērla, --- Bāk, Pirl, --- Baka, Parla, --- Baka, Pērla S., --- Bŏk, Pʻŏl S., --- Buck, Pearl, --- Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker, --- Bŭk, Pŭrl, --- Pak, Pērl Es., --- Sai, Chen-chu, --- Sai, Zhenzhu, --- Walsh, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, --- בוק, פירל --- בוק, פירל ס. --- باک، پرل --- بك، بيرل --- 賽珍珠, --- Sedges, John, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- China --- In literature. --- Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker --- Buck, Pearl --- Pearl Buck --- Buck, Paerl S. --- Paerl S. Buck --- 賽珍珠 --- Sai Zhenzhu --- 赛珍珠 --- sai zhen zhu --- 20th Century American Literature; China; Gender; Middlebrow Studies; Missionary Cultures; Literature; American Studies; General Literature Studies; Interculturalism; British Studies; Literary Studies --- American Studies. --- British Studies. --- China. --- Gender. --- General Literature Studies. --- Interculturalism. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Middlebrow Studies. --- Missionary Cultures.