The life of the famous American female writer Pearl Buck

Pearl Buck is a famous American writer whose mother tongue is Chinese and a famous alumnus of Nanjing University in China. Real name Pearl Sydenstrike Buck. Pearl Buck took the Chinese surname as her surname (her father was named Sai Zhaoxiang), took the Chinese word pearl, which means pearl, and combined it into her own surname. Pearl Buck was born in western Virginia. Four months later, she came to China with her missionary parents, Sai Zhaoxiang and Caroline. She has lived and worked in Qingjiangpu, Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Nanjing, Lushan and other places for nearly 40 years, including 18 years in Zhenjiang. She experienced the early years of her life in Zhenjiang, so she calls Zhenjiang her "China" home". She spent much of her childhood there, first learning Chinese and becoming accustomed to Chinese customs, before her mother taught her English. It is worth mentioning that she started writing with encouragement from an early age.

At the age of 17, he returned to the United States to study psychology at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia. After graduation, he came to China. In 1917, he married missionary John Losing Booker and engaged in missionary work. After marriage, she moved with her husband to Suxian County in northern Anhui Province (today's Suzhou City, Anhui Province). Her life experiences during this period became the material of the world-famous "The Earth". After her mother died in the autumn of 1921, the family moved to Nanjing. In 1927, the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Nanjing and she left China. From 1921 to 1935, she and J. L. Buck lived for a long time in the small foreign-style building assigned to them by Jinling University (which was merged into Nanjing University in 1952). This Republic of China building is still on the Gulou campus of Nanjing University. This is the former residence of Pearl Buck, where she wrote the novel "The Good Earth" (The Good Earth) trilogy, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, and other novels. She was the first to translate "Water Margin" into English and publish it in the West. . Divorced Booker in 1934; married Richard Walsh, general manager of John Day Company and editor-in-chief of Asia magazine in 1935, and joined John Day Company as editor. Later, he engaged in writing on his farm in Pennsylvania.

Pearl Buck

In 1934, due to poor conditions in China and to be close to her daughter and Richard Walsh, Pearl Buck bid farewell to China and returned to settle in China. After returning to China, she continued to write and actively participated in human rights and women's rights activities in the United States. In 1942, the couple founded the East and West Association, which was dedicated to cultural understanding and exchanges between Asia and the West. In 1949, out of outrage at the then adoption policy that discriminated against Asian and mixed-race children, she also founded the international adoption agency "Welcome House". In the next 50 years, this agency helped more than 5,000 children. In 1964, in order to help children who were not eligible for adoption, she also established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation.

Pearl Buck

After Nixon visited China in 1972, she actively supported the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) special program "Revisiting China" and actively applied to visit China. However, due to the political atmosphere at the time, her application to visit China was rejected. She died in depression in Danby, Vermont on May 6, 1973, and was buried at Green Mountain Farm in Pukasey, Pennsylvania. There will never be a chance to return to the land of China she loves. After she died of illness, according to her last wish, only three Chinese characters for "Pearl Buck" were engraved on her tombstone.

American news celebrity HAROLD ISAACS mentioned in his masterpiece "The Mark in Us" that he had conducted in-depth interviews with the American government and news in the 1950s. Celebrities, businessmen and other dignitaries were deeply influenced by the Chinese characters portrayed by Pearl Buck. What’s particularly amazing is that despite experiencing the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the Vietnam War, and the Cultural Revolution, the American people’s good impression of the Chinese people has never changed. This has to be attributed to this pioneering woman's outstanding contribution to China.

Pearl Buck began to try writing in 1922 in Guling, Lushan Mountain. In 1931, she published the novel "The Good Earth", which immediately became a bestseller. Because of Pearl Buck's "epic description of the life of Chinese farmers, this description "It is a true and richly based work, and a masterpiece of her biography." She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. During her lifetime, Pearl Buck wrote more than 100 literary works, the most famous of which is "The Good Earth." The subjects of her works include novels, short stories, plays and children's stories. There is a close connection between her works and life. She tries to prove to her readers that as long as they are willing to accept it, there is a wide range of sexual nature in human beings. The themes of her work include women, emotions (in a broad sense), Asia, immigration, adoption and life experiences.

Pearl Buck also wrote the preface to Lin Yutang's famous work "My Country and My People".