East Wind: West Wind: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
East Wind: West Wind by Pearl S. Buck: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 21 original MP3 tracks, 5:34:04 running time and a link to listen.
East Wind: West Wind, credited to Pearl S. Buck, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of East Wind: West Wind by Pearl S. Buck. Read in English by Michele Fry. East Wind: West Wind, Buck's first novel (published in 1930), is set in early 20th century China. Kwei-lan, a young aristocratic maiden, narrates her emotional tale to her "sister", a friend familiar with both east and west. The book explores an ancient family culture where women have no rights, their feet are still being bound, marriages are arranged, husbands have multiple concubines, parents exert crushing control over their childrens' lives, girl babies are devalued and sometimes killed, and slaves abound. Alas, Kwei-lan's betrothed (made by arrangement before her birth and whom she has never met), has read Western books, studied Western medicine, yearns for more freedom and a modern life, and does not find his Chinese wife fulfilling -- until they have a son. Kwei-lan's brother, ignoring his parents, has moved to America and married an American girl. When he brings "the foreigner" home to meet his family in China, and they have a son - east meets west in the bloodlines. The extreme culture clash this brings on is the study of this classic book. (Summary by Michele Fry) NOTE: Peart Buck lived in China with her American missionary parents, except for the time she spent being educated in the United States at RandolphMacon College and at Cornell University. She taught at the University of Nanking under two national régimes, and published over 70 books, articles and short stories, most of them about Chinese people, culture, and history.
Recording facts
- Recording title: East Wind: West Wind
- Author credits: Pearl S. Buck
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 21
- Listed recording duration: 5:34:04
Catalogue topics
- foot-binding
- China
- chinese medicine
- culture clashes
- opium
- slavery
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 1, Part 1 begins — 12:41
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 25:06
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 18:17
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 10:58
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 17:51
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 13:02
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 13:30
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 22:55
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 8:05
- 10 - Chapter 10, Part 2 begins — 30:07
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 12:38
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 10:41
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 7:03
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 17:08
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 11:56
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 24:08
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 23:33
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 17:58
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 17:11
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 12:04
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 7:12
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