As propaganda designed to enlist the sympathy of Americans for the plight of the Chinese at the hands of the Japanese, Dragon Seed belongs to a long tradition of ulteriorly motivated fiction dating from the doctrinaire religious allegory of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678) up to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-1852) and the works of the American muckrakers such as Samuel.....
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