![]() Limited, Deluxe Gift Edition, privately printed and produced for presentation at Christmas, 2005. HongKong, Macau, Tsingtao for German beer) left China and the Wang family saga on its knees. Years of invasion by missionaries, gunboats and being carved into international territorial concessions (i.e. In the sequels, Sons and The House Divided, Wang's offspring fair poorly as China faces disintegration of the imperial past and lured by utopias promised by theorists of Democracy and Marxist Communism. Wang Lung, whose children begs on the streetss as he pulls a rickshaw, does rise in social stature to have servants and concubines. Set in time after the fall of the Ching Dynasty, the 1911 establishment of the Republic of China and pre-World War I, when dazzling visions of railroad construction & modernization held sway. An initimate & movinging account of how a poor Anhwrei Chinese peasant farmer Wang Lung improves his standing. Buck (1892 - 1933), who, a child of missionaries, grew up in China. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1931, 2nd novel, winner of the 1932 Pulitzer, translated to some 30 languages, made into a Broadway play and adapted to film, from Pearl S. Published w/o ISBN ISBN assigned subsequently. ![]() Illustrated softcover/VG sound w/rubs to front. Text/VG, unread w/margin discoloration & trace humidity stains to lower corner of front pages. ![]()
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