Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Buck, ca. 1932.
Born:	June 26, 1892 Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States
Died:	March 6, 1973 (aged 80) Danby, Vermont, United States
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	American

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, most familiarly known as Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker; Chinese: 赛珍珠; Pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū) (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973), was a prolific American writer and Nobel Prize winner. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (480 × 640 pixel, file size: 15 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Titel: Pearl Buck Pearl S. Buck Fotograph: en:Arnold Genthe Erstellungsdatum: ca. ... Look up Circa on Wiktionary, the free dictionary The Latin word circa, literally meaning about, is often used to describe various dates (often birth and death dates) that are uncertain. ... is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Hillsboro is a town located in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. ... is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... Danby, Vermont Danby is a town located in Rutland County, Vermont. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), commonly called Pinyin, is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... Nobel Prize medal. ...

Life

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia to Caroline (Stulting; 1857-1921) and Absalom Sydenstricker (1852-1931), a Southern Presbyterian missionary. The family was sent to Zhenjiang, China in 1892 when Pearl was 3 months old. She was raised in China and learned the Chinese language and customs from a teacher named Mr. Kung. She was taught English as a second language by her mother and tutor. She was encouraged to write things at an early age. Hillsboro is a town located in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. ... Two Mormon missionaries A missionary is traditionally defined as a propagator of religion who works to convert those outside that community; someone who proselytizes. ... Zhenjiang (Simplified Chinese: 镇江; Traditional Chinese: 鎮江; pinyin: Zhènjiāng; Wade-Giles: Chen-chiang) is a prefecture-level city in the southwestern Jiangsu province, Peoples Republic of China. ... Chinese (written) language (pinyin: zhōngw n) written in Chinese characters The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, 华语/華語, or 中文; Pinyin: H nyǔ, Hu yǔ, or Zhōngw n) is a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... Chinese culture has roots going back over five thousand years. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

The Boxer Rebellion greatly affected Pearl Buck and her family. Pearl Buck wrote that during this time, “…her eight-year-old childhood … split apart.” Her Chinese friends deserted her and her family and there were not as many Western visitors as there once were. “The streets [of China] were alive with rumors- many … based on fact- of brutality to missionaries …” Pearl Buck’s father was a missionary so Pearl Buck’s mother, her little sister, and herself were “…evacuated to the relative safety of Shanghai, where they spent nearly a year as refugees…” (The Good Earth, Introduction) Her childhood life was greatly interrupted. In July 1901, Pearl Buck and her family sailed to San Francisco. Not until the following year did the Sydenstrickers return back to China. This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ...

In 1910, she left China once again for America to attend Randolph-Macon Woman's College ^[1], where she would earn her degree in 1914. She then returned to China, and married an agricultural economist, John Lossing Buck, on May 13, 1917. In 1920, she and John had a daughter, Carol, who was afflicted with phenylketonuria. The small family then moved to Nanjing, where Pearl taught English literature at the University of Nanking. In 1925, the Bucks adopted Janice (later surnamed Walsh). In 1926, she left China and returned to the United States for a short time in order to earn her Master of Arts degree from Cornell University. Randolph-Macon Womans College is a private, liberal arts college situated in Lynchburg, Virginia. ... May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... PhenylKetonUria (PKU) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterized by a deficiency in the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH). ...   (Chinese: 南京; Romanizations: NánjÄ«ng (Pinyin), Nan-ching (Wade-Giles), Nanking (Postal map spelling)) is the capital of Chinas Jiangsu Province and a city with a prominent place in Chinese history and culture. ... The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S... The University of Nanking (金陵大学) was a Christian university founded in 1888 in Nanjing, China. ... A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ... Cornell University is a university located in Ithaca, New York, USA. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar. ...

Buck began her writing career in 1930 with her first publication of East Wind: West Wind. In 1931, she wrote her most famous novel, The Good Earth (considered to be one of the best of her many works). The story of the farmer Wang Lung's life won her the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. Her career continued to flourish; she won the William Dean Howells Medal in 1935. East Wind: West Wind is a novel written by Pearl S. Buck in 1930. ... The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in 1931, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. ... No prize was awarded in 1917. ... The William Dean Howells Medal is awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ...

The Bucks were forced to leave China in 1934 because of political tensions. When they returned to the United States, Pearl and John divorced. She then married Richard J. Walsh, president of the John Day Publishing Company, on June 11, 1935, and with him, adopted nine other children. In 1938, she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded to her for her work to that point, including the biographies of her parents, The Exile, and Fighting Angel. June 11 is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Issue #136 of The eXile The eXile, founded in 1997, is a Moscow-based English-language biweekly free newspaper, aimed at the citys expatriate community, which combines outrageous content with investigative reporting. ...

Pearl S. Buck wrote over 100 works of literature, her best-known being The Good Earth. The Good Earth chronicled the fictional life of the farmer Wang Lung against the backdrop of 20^th century turmoil and revolution in China. It traces the rise of Wang Lung from the abject poverty of his early days to his final years by which he had accumulated great wealth and power. The novel portrays the complexities of marriage, parenthood, joy, pain, and human frailty. Buck stresses in the novel the value of fertile land, hard work, thrift, and responsibility. The novel has a very circular feel to it, recreating the ebb and flow of life, the change of seasons, and the cycles of age and family. Buck’s writing is unique in the way it blends the technical language of the King James Bible with the simplicity and directness of the old Chinese narrative sagas. The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in 1931, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... This page is about the version of the Bible; for the Harvey Danger album, see King James Version (album). ...

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Buck wrote about her experiences in China from her home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In 1935, she bought a sixty-acre homestead she called Green Hills Farm and moved into a hundred year-old farmhouse on the property with her second husband, Richard Walsh, and their family of eight children. Bucks County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania. ... Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

Green Hills Farm is where Buck spent thirty-eight years of her life, raising her family, writing, pursuing humanitarian interests, and gardening. She completed many works while living in Pennsylvania, such as This Proud Heart (1938), The Patriot (1939), Today and Forever (1941), and The Child Who Never Grew (1950).

Humanitarian efforts

Pearl Buck was an extremely passionate activist for human rights. In 1949, outraged that existing adoption services considered Asian and mixed-race children unadoptable, Pearl established Welcome House, Inc., the first international, interracial adoption agency. In the nearly five decades of its work, Welcome House has assisted in the placement of over five thousand children. In 1964, to provide support for Asian-American children who were not eligible for adoption, Pearl also established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which provides sponsorship funding for thousands of children in half a dozen Asian countries. When establishing the Opportunity House Foundation to support child sponsorship programs in Asia, Pearl S. Buck said "The purpose of the foundation is to publicize and eliminate injustices and prejudices suffered by children, who, because of their birth, are not permitted to enjoy the educational, social, economic and civil privileges normally accorded to children."^[2] For other uses, see Adoption (disambiguation). ... An interracial couple is a romantic couple or marriage in which the partners are of differing races. ...

Eventually, the organizations she founded, Welcome House, Inc. and Opportunity House (her name for the sponsorship programs) merged and incorporated the house in which she penned many of her books, to form Pearl S. Buck International. The Pearl S. Buck House in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, now a registered National Historic Landmark,^[3] educates the public about a woman’s contribution to society with an intact collection of early 20th century artifacts drawn from her life in China as well as her time spent in the United States.^[4] Perkasie is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 35 miles (56 km) north of Philadelphia. ... This article or section needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ...

While the historic site works to preserve and display artifacts from her profoundly multicultural life, many of Buck's life experiences are also described in her novels, short stories, fiction, and children's stories. Through them she sought to prove to her readers that universality of mankind can exist if man accepts it. She dealt with many topics including women's rights, emotions (in general), Asian cultures, immigration, adoption, and conflicts that many people go through in life. This article is in need of attention. ... // Fiction (from the Latin fingere, to form, create) is the genre of imaginative prose literature, including novels and short stories. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ... Emotional redirects here. ... This article deals primarily or exclusively with the definition of Asian in English-speaking countries, mainly referring to immigrants or descendants of immigrants living therein. ...

Pearl S. Buck died March 6, 1973 in Danby, Vermont and was interred in Green Hills Farm in Perkasie. is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... Danby, Vermont Danby is a town located in Rutland County, Vermont. ...

Selected bibliography

Novels

• East Wind:West Wind (1930)
• The Good Earth (1931)
• Sons (1933)
• The Mother (1933)
• A House Divided (1935)
• This Proud Heart (1938)
• The Big Wave (1938)
• The Patriot (1939)
• Other Gods (1940)
• Dragon Seed (1942)
• The Promise (1943)
• Portrait of a Marriage (1945)
• Pavilion of Women (1946)
• The Angry Wife (1947) (as John Sedges)
• Peony (1948)
• A Long Love (1949) (as John Sedges)
• God's Men (1951)
• Come, My Beloved (1953)
• Voices in the House (1953) ( as John Sedges)
• Imperial Woman (1956)
• China Sky (1956)
• Letter from Peking(1957)
• Command the Morning (1959)
• Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
• The Living Reed (1963)
• The Time is Noon (1966)
• Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (1967)
• The Three Daughters of Madame Liang (1969)
• Mandala (1970)
• The Rainbow (1974)

Note: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided were released together in 1935 as The House of Earth trilogy.
"The Townsman" was written under the nom de plume, John Sedges East Wind: West Wind is a novel written by Pearl S. Buck in 1930. ... The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in 1931, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. ... Sons is the sequel to the novel The Good Earth, and the second book in the The House of Earth trilogy by renowned author Pearl S. Buck. ... This article is about the spiritual partner of Sri Aurobindo. ... A House Divided (1935) is the sequel to the 1932 novel Sons, and the third book in The House of Earth trilogy, all written by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck. ... The Patriot is the name of several movies, released in 1916, 1917, 1928, 1996, 1998 and 2000. ... Katharine Hepburn in Dragon Seed. ... The Promise may refer to: in Music The Promise, a 1985 song from So Red The Rose, an album by Duran Duran side project Arcadia. ... Portrait of a Marriage is the 1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West completed by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals and letters. ... Peony is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1948. ... Imperial Woman is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1956. ... Buddhist mandala Mandala (Sanskrit circle, completion) is a term used to refer to various objects. ... The Rainbow was a 1915 novel by British author D.H. Lawrence. ... The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in 1931, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. ... Sons is the sequel to the novel The Good Earth, and the second book in the The House of Earth trilogy by renowned author Pearl S. Buck. ... A House Divided (1935) is the sequel to the 1932 novel Sons, and the third book in The House of Earth trilogy, all written by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck. ...

Biographies

• The Exile (1936)
• Fighting Angel (1936)

Autobiographies

• My Several Worlds (1954)
• A Bridge For Passing (1962)

Non-fiction

• China as I See It (1970)
• The Story Bible (1971)
• Pearl S. Buck's Oriental Cookbook (1972)
• Of Men and Women (1941)
• The Child Who Never Grew (1950)
• My Several Worlds (1954)
• For Spacious Skies (1966)
• The People of Japan (1966)
• The Kennedy Women (1970)

Stories

The Old Demon The Old Demon- a story by Pearl S. Buck The Old Demon is a fiction which depicts an old Chinese women, Mrs Wang who sacrifices her own life for the sake of mankind and humanity. ...

See also

• 19th Century Protestant Missions in China

During the last half of the eighteenth and the opening decades of the nineteenth century little was done to advance the cause of Christ in China. ...

Awards

• Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1932)
• Nobel Prize in Literature (1938)

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References

• Peter J. Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
• Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb, Frances E. Webb Peter J. Conn, eds., The Several Worlds of Pearl S. Buck: Essays Presented at a Centennial Symposium, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, March 26-28, 1992 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994)
• Liao Kang, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Bridge across the Pacific (Westport, CT, London: Greenwood Press, 1997)
• Karen J. Leong, The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)

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Notes

1. ^ Randolph-Macon Woman's College
2. ^ Pearl S. Buck International: Our History
3. ^ National Historic Landmarks Program: Pearl S. Buck House
4. ^ Pearl S. Buck International: The Pearl S. Buck House

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