![]() ![]() "I cried because I realized how beautifully Buck had told the story of the Chinese peasant, in a way that few others, even Chinese, had ever done," says the author of such acclaimed novels as Becoming Madame Mao and The Last Empress. Later, as she read it on the plane, she burst into tears. ![]() ![]() Years later, living in the United States, Min was on tour promoting her memoir Red Azalea when a fan thrust a copy of Buck's novel into her hands. In 1971, during China's Cultural Revolution, 14-year-old Anchee Min was ordered to denounce the American novelist Pearl Buck as a "cultural imperialist." Min had never heard of the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Good Earth and other works celebrating the lives of ordinary Chinese, but she dutifully complied. ![]()
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