Pearl S. Buck grew up on the cultural borderland between China and America. The intercultural oral environment not only provided her with stories from which she drew her first literary nourishment, but also made her writing focus on the common destiny of all human beings, especially the fate of women. Bucks contribution to Chinese culture and literature is manifested in her concern for the life of those Chinese people at the bottom of the society, her insistence on literature to serve the common people, and her determination to “speak for” Chinese women suppressed by the patriarchal culture. In her writing, women weave traditional culture and ethical values into daily life through popular and vivid oral forms, not only showing the longlasting influence and constructive role of cultural memory, but also breaking through the monopoly of male discourse, thus successfully deconstructing the western and male representations of Chinese women.