Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

277. Pearl S. Buck and the Transpacific Imagination

3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon B, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Peter Conn, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1. “Pearl S. Buck and the Social Science of Memoir,” Danielle S. Glassmeyer, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

2. “Pearl Buck and the Birth of the Transpacific Imagination,” Hua Hsu, Harvard Univ.

3. “Chinese Exceptionalism: Pearl Buck’s Noninterventionism and Chinese Democracy,” Ichiro Takayoshi, Columbia Univ.

Respondent: Peter Conn

For copies of abstracts, write to it2009@columbia.edu.

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