Growing up in China, Pearl S. Buck would come to advocate for the Chinese people not only in her famous novel “The Good Earth”, but throughout her life. She used her fame to fight for Chinese and Asian Americans, and even to lobby the government for normalized US-China relations. #ushistory #literaryhistory #literature #realhistory #history #historymatters #uschina #chineseamerican #chinesehistory #asianamerican #pearlsbuck #americanhistory #asianamericanhistory | jason chu