*** A story about how Love alone could awaken Love. And he could give the gift again and again...
From Denny: As an American high school kid living in Taiwan I was introduced to the author Pearl S. Buck. She grew up as a Christian missionary kid in mainland China during the 1930's and was one of the very first Westerners to bridge the cultural gap between China and the West in understanding. Buck wrote a lot of stories, recommended by both the local Taiwanese and the Christian missionaries, and I read them all back then since there was no TV in English. I read a lot of books, even took to reading the Encyclopedias when I ran out of material! :)
While this author may be considered simplistic and out of fashion at the moment, she still deserves a read in my mind. Why? One of the subtle cultural nuances that crept into her writing was the Chinese sentence structure: extreme sheer simplicity. Sometimes, later generations who have not lived abroad fail to pick up those intense subtleties and so write off her writing, failing to realize they are missing an opportunity to get inside the head of Chinese culture by reading about the smallest things in Life written in a simple way. Parents with teenagers will definitely appreciate this story.
Pearl Buck wrote a lot on women's rights as well as mixed race adoption long before anyone thought about multi-culturalism. Definitely she was ahead of her time. She was fluent in Chinese and fought against racist attitudes long before that was popular as well. This writer was definitely a class act!
This story was originally published in 1955, available here at Amazon: Christmas Day in the Morning
Let your love light shine!
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