Buck, Pearl S. Typed Manuscript : "Cultural Contacts of the West with the Far East" [NP]
Typed Manuscript with numerous changes and rewordings by the author. 23 sheets, 8-1/3 x 11", off-white typing paper with an additionalsheet, in her hand, numbered "22A". Imprint of paper clip t upper left margin, with some rustiness to first page; sheets ruffled, lightly ge-toned and with occasional nicks. Generally very good. Housed in custom-made letter case. She has edited and amended the typescript with changes at every page, in pencil and in pen indicating she had read through this draft at least twice. A good example of a working manuscript from the author. Above the title, Buck has written in pencil "(This copy later revised") and also noted "Unnecessary to make 10 copies of this, since it is for a particular copyrighted book". Originally she had called this peice "History and the Missionary Impulse" which may have been a more exact description. As the daughter of missionary partnets who herself was born in China, Buck had a unique perspective on wht inspired and motivated missionaries. She sees curiosity, economic necessity and politics as well as religious fervor as spurs to Western missionaries. Buck canvasses the history of Western missionary contacts with the East and points out "[i]t is no accident tht the three gret periods of missionary zeal in the West coincide with the three periods of expansion in other lines." Throughout her career, Pearl Buck considered increased understanding between China and the United States a primary goal. She and her husband established the East and West Association in 1941 and became active in virtually all of the U.S. non- governmental contacts with China. She often wrote and lectured on various aspects of Chinese culture and here effectively informs the Western reader how missionaries and the spirit which impelled them evolved and how that evolution effected the Chinese with whom they worked. The subject is one which Buck wrote or spoke about repeatedly; e.g. "Is There a Case for Foreign Missions", her controversial speech at the Astor Hotel in New York in 1932 and "Missionaries of Empire" which appeared in EMPIRE IN THE EAST (1934). Conn.Pearl S. Buck A Cultural Biography. While Buck manuscripts are fairly accessible, this is a subject which brings to bear the force of her own personal experiences and observations and strikes us a particularly noteworthy.
$US500
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