La rinascita di Pearl Buck

Bettina Mottura has translated an article written by Nan Qiao 南侨, pseudonym of a Chinese scholar and columnist, published by the Nanfang zhoumo 南方周末 in 2017 and has written some introductory notes to the translation. The article testifies to the role of Pearl Buck as a key figure in today cultural discourse in China. It also offers a representation of the writer strongly influenced by the contemporary Chinese context, reconstructing an idealized image of Pearl Buck, which is only partially rooted in the historical reality of the writer's biography or in the literary reality of her works. The article also refers to a galaxy of values and meanings that the Chinese cultural world associates to the American writer. The translation is published with an introductory note and an apparatus of comments that aim to highlight the most salient aspects of the Chinese text and to contextualise it.