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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973) was an award-winning American writer who spent the majority of her life in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." With no irony, she has been described in China as a Chinese writer.
Pearl was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia to Caroline Stulting (18571921) and Absalom Sydenstricker. Her parents, Southern Presbyterian missionaries, traveled to China soon after their marriage on July 8, 1880, but returned to the United States for Pearl's birth. When Pearl was three months old, the family returned to China, to be stationed first in Zhenjiang (then often known as Jingjiang or, in the Postal Romanization, Tsingkiang). Pearl grew up bilingual, tutored in English by her mother and in classical Chinese by Mr. Kung.
The Boxer Uprising greatly affected Pearl and her family. Pearl's Chinese friends deserted her and her family, and there were not as many Western visitors as there once were.
In 1911, Pearl left China to attend Randolph-Macon Woman's College, graduating (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1914. From 1914 to 1933, she served as a Presbyterian missionary, but her views later became highly controversial in the FundamentalistModernist Controversy, leading to her resignation.
In 1914, Pearl returned to China. She married an agricultural economist missionary, John Lossing Buck, on May 13, 1917, and they moved to Suzhou, Anhui Province, a small town on the Huai River (not be confused with the better-known Suzhou in Jiangsu Province.). It is this region she described later in The Good Earth and Sons.
Nanjing University
From 1920 to 1933, Pearl and John made their home in Nanking (Nanjing), on the campus of Nanjing University, where both had teaching positions. Pearl taught English literature at the University of Nanjing and the Chinese National University. In 1920, the Bucks had a daughter, Carol, afflicted with phenylketonuria. In 1921, Pearl's mother died and shortly afterward her father moved in. In 1924, they left China for John's year of sabbatical and returned to the United States for a short time, during which Pearl earned her Masters degree from Cornell University. In 1925, the Bucks adopted Janice (later surnamed Walsh). That fall, they returned to China.
The tragedies and dislocations that Pearl suffered in the 1920s reached a climax in March 1927, during "Nanking Incident." In a confused battle involving elements of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, Communist forces, and assorted warlords, several Westerners were murdered. Since Absalom was a missionary, the family decided to stay in Nanjing until the battle reached the city. When violence broke out, a poor Chinese family allowed them to hide in their hut while the family house was looted. The family spent a day terrified and in hiding, after which they were rescued by American gunboats. They traveled to Shanghai and then sailed to Japan, where they stayed for a year. They later moved back to Nanjing, though conditions remained dangerously unsettled.
In 1935, the Bucks were divorced. Richard Walsh, president of the John Day Company and her publisher, became Pearl Buck's second husband. The couple lived in Pennsylvania.
Pearl S. Buck died of lung cancer on March 6, 1973 in Danby, Vermont and was interred in Green Hills Farm in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. She designed her own tombstone, which does not record her name in English; instead, the grave marker is inscribed with Chinese characters representing the name Pearl Sydenstricker.
Peter Conn, in his biography of Buck, argues that despite the accolades awarded her, Buck's contribution to literature has been mostly forgotten or deliberately ignored by America's cultural gatekeepers.
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ROOTS - Kunta Kinté STORYby drekaphey385,602 views
what from the time of 5:29 you said sire the british were buying afoin from china to the end of the talk I see you must watch closely your talk
muhmadtaha 1 month ago
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muhmadtaha 1 month ago
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limwang75 1 month ago
@dackjack
How the tables can turn.
askjiir 1 month ago
PROPAGANDA! BULLSHIT
MegaWhiteSHIT 1 month ago
bs propaganda
effrin999 1 month ago
We created Communist China, through Lies, Invasion, Betrayal and basically the same things we did to the original inhabitants of the land we stole from them. Not much hope because the most mentally deficient are usually the most vocal and they are the ones running this country with the greedy, smart banksters behind to drive them on in their insanity.
The Love of Money...
abumaximo 1 month ago
Same ol' American Lies and Spin, Black is White! Murder is done by Freedom Fighters? aka Blackrock mercenaries. Same Lies and Intrigue perpetrated by the most impure of human beings and unfortunately, the ones with the money "because they stole it", the ones with power, "because they lied and killed for it". The ones in Control, "because they subvert the true purpose of they being and turn it to greed, anger, lust and all the sick demented problems that drive them to such a "calling".
abumaximo 1 month ago
china has done bad thin gs but this is a one sided view from of course americans its not acctaully seeing the situation and the facts
koberpat 2 months ago
China in 1967, trying to recover from a famine that killed 45m people, the biggest atrocity in history, as the people paid the price for "the great leap forward" which starved millions when agricultural China was trying to become industrial China and overtake the west with Chairman Maos communist ideology. Steel production replaced food production, and the culture of fear and respect led to entire communities disappearing through hunger and disease. At least it wont happen again.
standrews43 2 months ago