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| The Building of Female Community of Common Destiny in Pearl S. Bucks Biographical Writings |
| Wang Lei |
| School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China |
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Abstract American Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck had left rich biographical writings, like The Exile, Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul, and My Several Worlds, which not only recount the turbulent transnational life experiences of her family, but also reveal how females, silenced by patriarchal discourse, employed rich oral culture to incite dialogues between Chinese and Western women to build a transcultural, transgenerational female community of common destiny. Aware of the common gender dilemmas encountered by her mother and Chinese women as well as the power of this female community, Buck established her social identity as a female intellectual as well as a genderless promoter of social progress, thus setting an example of female self in the new era.
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