Pearl S. Buck Audio & Video

One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China.

Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising.

Pearl Buck, a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning novelist, talked to Mike Wallace about American women, marriage, career versus family, and the difference between men and women.

On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife.

Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid - an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter....

Second in the trilogy that began with "The Good Earth," Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China.