Pearl Buck in China
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I have always had a curiosity about the role of missionaries in the developing world. This may be the most revealing story of American missionaries in China. Not only does this biography relate to the story of a young American girl transplanted into China in1892 at the age of four months, but it also gave insight into the lives of the Chinese people few others were able to see. Pearl Sydenstricker felt more Chinese than American. Her friends called her Zhenzhu and she spoke Chinese before and more easily than English.
While Pearl’s father was a zealous missionary, her…
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