Imagining China
By Matt Hodges | China Daily | Updated: 2014-03-18 07:36
A writer from the United States had strong family ties to China but had never been to the mainland herself before writing her book, River of Dust, set in Shanxi province. Matt Hodges reports in Shanghai.
In her debut novel River of Dust, Virginia Pye seems to agree with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck on at least one point: The missionaries who came to China in the early 20th century to spread the gospel were not necessarily needed.
Like Buck, Pye's forebears were tasked with converting non-believing Chinese to Christianity.
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