Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China Condition:Very Good winner of the 2001 Robert

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In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure dome decreeKublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge

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Former diplomat Bilahari Kausikan highlights two global trends that can shape Singapore's future—identity politics and the rise of China—and how China is using them to influence the Singapore identity

Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China Condition:Very Good winner of the 2001 RobertThis is a thrilling portrait of the extraordinary childhood of Pearl Buck, the now forgotten bestselling Nobel Prize winning novelist. Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue eyed, she looked startlingly foreign but felt at home with her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave littered grasslands behind her house, often stumbling across the tiny bones of baby girls who had