Peony (novel)

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Peony

First edition cover
Author	Pearl S. Buck
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Historical novel
Publisher	The John Day Company
Publication date	1948
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Peony is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1948. It is a story of China's Kaifeng Jews.

Plot[]

Peony is set in the 1850s in the city of Kaifeng, in the province of Henan, which was historically a center for Chinese Jews. The novel follows Peony, a Chinese bondmaid of the prominent Jewish family of Ezra ben Israel's, and shows through her eyes how the Jewish community was regarded in Kaifeng at a time when most of the Jews had come to think of themselves as Chinese. The novel contains a hidden love and shows the importance of duty, along with the challenges of life. This novel follows the guidelines of Buck's work: it is set in China, and it involves religion and an interracial couple (David and Kueilan).^{[citation needed]}

Preface[]

A prefatory note preceding the title page, which tells the reader of the assimilation about the Jews of Kaifeng, reads: "Today even the memory of their origin is gone. They are Chinese."^[1]

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