Shared Values Of Eastern And Western Cultures And Their National-Cultural Semantics In The Trilogy Of Pearl S. Buck
Keywords:
Shared values, national-cultural semantics, axiological universalityAbstract
This thesis examines how values shared by Eastern and Western cultures — labour, family, filial respect, justice, and attachment to the land — are artistically represented in the trilogy of Pearl S. Buck, and how these universal values acquire distinct national-cultural semantics within the Chinese context. Applying narratological and psychopoetic criteria, the study argues that shared values are structured on two inseparable layers: an axiological universality that preserves the human core of a value, and a cultural-semantic particularity that retains its concrete national interpretation. The findings offer a basis for re-evaluating Buck’s prose within cross-cultural poetics.
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