Buck always sought to promote understanding of the world's peoples by stressing similarities rather than differences. Nowhere in House of Earth are Eastern or Chinese ethical values so different from those of the West that the reader feels alienated. Buck deliberately avoids an exploration of the Taoist, Buddhist, or Confucian perspective for this would maximize the foreign aspect of her Chinese characters for an American audience. Her commitment to the promotion of understanding in combination with her lively egalitarianism, so much in.....
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