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  1. Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth by Hilary Spurling, 2010-06-01
  2. The Good Earth (Enriched Classics) by Pearl S. Buck, 2005-03-29
  3. Peony: A Novel of China by Pearl S. Buck, 2006-01-01
  4. Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck, 2001
  5. A House Divided (Good Earth Trilogy, Vol 3) by Pearl S. Buck, 2006-01-01
  6. The Mother by Pearl S. Buck, 2004-01-01
  7. Imperial Woman: The Story of the Last Empress of China (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck) by Pearl S. Buck, 2004-12-01
  8. Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn, 1998-01-28
  9. Dragon Seed (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck.) by Pearl S. Buck, 2006-01-01
  10. Sons (Good Earth Trilogy, Vol 2) by Pearl S. Buck, 2005-01-01
  11. The Story Bible by Pearl S. Buck, 1997-07-07
  12. Kinfolk (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck) by Pearl S. Buck, 2004-01-01
  13. The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism by Karen J. Leong, 2005-07-25
  14. The Exile by Pearl Buck, 1976-02-01

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2. Brief Biography Of Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 1892 1973. Pearl Buck died in March, 1973, just two months before her eighty-first birthday. She is buried at Green Hills Farm.
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 1892 - 1973
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents, Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, stationed in China. Pearl was the fourth of seven children (and one of only three who would survive to adulthood). She was born when her parents were near the end of a furlough in the United States; when she was three months old, she was taken back to China, where she spent most of the first forty years of her life. The Sydenstrickers lived in Chinkiang ( Zhenjiang ), in Kiangsu (Jiangsu) province, then a small city lying at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal. Pearl's father spent months away from home, itinerating in the Chinese countryside in search of Christian converts; Pearl's mother ministered to Chinese women in a small dispensary she established. From childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. She was taught principally by her mother and by a Chinese tutor, Mr. Kung. In 1900, during the Boxer Uprising, Caroline and the children evacuated to Shanghai, where they spent several anxious months waiting for word of Absalom's fate. Later that year, the family returned to the US for another home leave. In 1910, Pearl enrolled in

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    Pearl Buck free essays, eTexts, resources and links from LiteratureClassics.com. Pearl Buck was born in Viginia in the United States but became both a missionary and teacher in naure including The Townsman. Pearl Buck died in Vermont in 1973.
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    Pearl Buck was born in Viginia in the United States but became both a missionary and teacher in China and strove to improve Chinese-American relations. Her works include reflections on both American and Chinese thinking and she established the Pearl S Buck Foundation to assist illegitimate children born of U.S. servicemen and this foundation became the benefactor of most of her income.
    The House of Earth Trilogy included the The Good Earth for which she received a Pulitizer Prize (1932) which was later adapted for stage and screen. This was followed by Sons and A House Divided . She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, which was not expected by either herself or her critics who considered that it was justified by the commitment to promoting peace and idealism. She wrote several novels about Chinese peasants and biographies about her parents as missionaries in China - The Angel and The Exile . She also published short stories and wrote about her retartded daughter in The Child who Never Grew . Using the pseudonym John Sedges she published several novels of a different naure including The Townsman
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    aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie Pearl S(ydensticker) Buck US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin , * am 26. Juni in Hillsboro West-Virginia 6. März in Danby Vermont Die Tochter eines Missionars verbrachte einen Teil ihrer Kindheit in China . Sie studierte in den USA, arbeitete später als Professorin für englische Literatur im chinesischen Nanking Die Konfrontation mit amerikanischer und fernöstlicher Kultur hatte einen großen Einfluss auf das Werk der Schriftstellerin, die sich für Toleranz und Völkerverständigung einsetzte. bekam sie den Pulitzer-Preis und wurde ihr der Nobelpreis für Literatur verliehen. Bekannte Werke:
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    Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892 in the West Virginia home of her grandmother. She was born the fourth of seven children to Caroline and Absalom, two Presbyterian missionaries, who were home from China. The family quickly returned to their home in Chinkiang, China three months after Pearls birth. Pearl grew up among the Chinese peasants in a small farming community. Her first language was Chinese, she grew up with the customs and traditions of the Chinese. As she grew her mother and her teacher taught her English.
    In 1910, Pearl returned to the United States to earn a degree at Randolph-Macon Womens College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She studied philosophy and was very active in the student government. She was elected class president and was a Phi Beta Kappa. After her graduation in 1914, she stayed at Randolph-Macon to teach psychology. After one semester she returned to China to assist her ill mother.
    Pearl married John Lossing Buck, an agricultural missionary, in China on May 13, 1917. The couple led a very unhappy life together. In 1921, Pearl gave birth to a daughter, Carol, who was mentally disabled with a disease called PKU. Pearl decided to return to the States and place her in a full-time care facility in Vineland, New Jersey. Because of a tumor found in Pearl's uterus during delivery, she underwent a hysterectomy.

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    AUTHOR: Pearl S. Buck, Peter Conn (Editor)
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    B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) - original surname Sydenstricker; pseudonym John Sedges One of the most popular American authors of her day, humanitarian, crusader for women's rights, editor of Asia magazine, philanthropist, noted for her novels of life in China. Pearl S. Buck was awarded the Nobel Price for Literature in 1938. The decision of the Swedish Academy stirred controversy, especially among critics who believed that Buck lacked the stature the Nobel Prize was intended to confirm. Nowadays Buck's books are generally considered dated although attempts have been made to rehabilitate her work. "One does not live half a life in Asia without return. When it would be I did not know, nor even where it would be, or to what cause. In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. The friendly country of China, the home of my childhood and youth, is for the time being forbidden country. I refuse to call it enemy country. The people in my memory are too kind and the land too beautiful." (from A Bridge for Passing Pearl S. Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She spent her youth in China, in Chinkiang on the Yangtse River. She learned to speak Chinese before she could speak English. Her parents were missionaries. Buck's father, Absalom Sydenstricker, was a humorless, scholarly man who spent years translating the Bible from Greek to Chinese. Her mother, the former Caroline Stulting, had travelled widely in her youth and had a fondness for literature. Buck's life in China was not always pleasant. When she was only a child, the family was forced to flee from the rebel forces of the Boxer Rebellion.

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    født 26. juni 1892 i Hillsboro, USA og døde 6. marts 1973 i Danby. Fik Nobelprisen i litteratur i 1938. "Den gode jord" ("The Good Earth")
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    Pearl S. Buck lived much of her life in China. Her father, Absalom Sydenstricker, was a Presbyterian missionary stationed in the small town of Chinkiang, outside Nanking. Pearl was born in America in 1892 during her parents' home leave, but moved back to China at the age of three months. She was raised by a Chinese amah who told her popular tales and myths, and she could speak and write both English and Chinese by the age of four. She also played freely with the village children, and in this way learned much about Chinese life through experience. In 1900, when Pearl was eight years old, the Boxer Rebellion threw the Sydenstrickers' life into turmoil. Chinese nationalists turned on Westerners, and for a while the family feared for their lives. Absalom sent Pearl, her mother, and her baby sister to Shanghai, which was relatively safe for Westerners, but in 1901 the family returned to America. However, they were soon back in China again, regardless of danger. In 1909, Pearl enrolled in Miss Jewell's School in Shanghai, a school that had formerly been a place for privileged Western girls to be educated but had lost much of its prestige in the previous years. While studying there, Pearl also volunteered at The Golden Door, a shelter for Chinese slave girls and prostitutes. Her experience here would mold her as a writer and as a person; throughout her years in China, Pearl would continue to pay particular attention to the plight of oppressed and poor Chinese women and girls.

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    PEARL SYDENSTRICKER BUCK, 1892 - 1973 Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents, Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, stationed in China. Pearl was the fourth of seven children (and one of only three who would survive to adulthood). She was born when her parents were near the end of a furlough in the United States; when she was three months old, she was taken back to China, where she spent most of the first forty years of her life. The Sydenstrickers lived in Chinkiang (Zhenjiang), in Kiangsu (Jiangsu) province, then a small city lying at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal. Pearl's father spent months away from home, itinerating in the Chinese countryside in search of Christian converts; Pearl's mother ministered to Chinese women in a small dispensary she established. From childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. She was taught principally by her mother and by a Chinese tutor, Mr. Kung. In 1900, during the Boxer Uprising, Caroline and the children evacuated to Shanghai, where they spent several anxious months waiting for word of Absalom's fate. Later that year, the family returned to the US for another home leave. In 1910, Pearl enrolled in Randolph-Macon Woman's College, in Lynchburg, Virginia, from which she graduated in 1914. Although she had intended to remain in the US, she returned to China shortly after graduation when she received word that her mother was gravely ill. In 1915, she met a young Cornell graduate, an agricultural economist named John Lossing Buck. They married in 1917, and immediately moved to Nanhsuchou (Nanxuzhou) in rural Anhwei (Anhui) province. In this impoverished community, Pearl Buck gathered the material that she would later use in The Good Earth and other stories of China.

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