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It was discussed in the context of who owns a story, as the author was white and wrote about Chinese culture. It was also mentioned that it was adapted into an Academy Award-winning movie.
I recently read... I cannot even tell you why. Oh because I just found it in a used bookstore at The Good Earth.
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It was discussed in the context of who owns a story, as the author was white and wrote about Chinese culture. It was also mentioned that it was adapted into an Academy Award-winning movie.
I recently read... I cannot even tell you why. Oh because I just found it in a used bookstore at The Good Earth.
Did you read The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck?
She grew up largely in China, but she's a white woman from suburban Philadelphia really, and she wrote about my cultural tradition...
was made into an Academy Award-winning film where of course largely the cast was white, none of this would play well I think in 2020 and I think that's largely good.
So that book was published in like the 1930s or something?