Ph.D., 1989. 450 P. Ohio University; 0167 Director: Lester Jay Marks
DAI, 50, no. 08A, (1989): 2482

"A comparative study of the deterioration of upper class families in the American South and China as it is depicted in the family fiction of William Faulkner and Ba Jin.… Such basic elements as individualism, existentialism, anarchism, and idealism, and the two writers’ complicated attitudes toward their respective traditions, are in fact all manifestations of different aspects of their humanism."