The Study of East Wind-West Wind from the Perspective of the Third Space Theory

摘要

As a marginalized person living between two cultures, Pearl S. Buck makes her efforts to achieve the integration of the Eastern and Western cultures throughout her life. East Wind-West Wind is Pearl S. Buck's first novel and reflects her ideal. Living in the cracks of two cultures, Pearl S. Buck gradually adapts herself to the alienation of the two cultures and begins to seek for a way to achieve cultural integration, and try to establish the unique cultural identity of her own.