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In 1936 she divorced her missionary husband of 17 years, John Lossing Buck, and married her publisher, Richard Walsh on the same day.  

In 1936 she divorced her missionary husband of 17 years, John Lossing Buck, and married her publisher, Richard Walsh on the same day.  

She was active in the civil rights movement and numerous liberal causes, and pushed successfully for the repeal of laws designed to exclude Chinese immigration to the U.S. She was especially active in helping children who were mentally or physically disabled, or were disadvantaged because of their race.<ref>In 1950 Buck published ''The Child Who Never Grew,'' a story about her own retarded daughter. The book was a landmark which helped to change American attitudes toward mental retardation.</ref>  She worked tirelessly during World War II to promote Chinese-American understanding and friendship. She was not hostile toward the Communists and by the 1950s she actively opposed American involvement in the [[Cold War]].  The Communists, however, ridiculed and attacked her for what they called her "attitude of distortion, smear, and vilification  towards the people of new China and its leaders."<ref>quoted in Sheila Melvin, "Pearl's Great Price: Pearl Buck's Chronicles of Everyday Life in China Won Her Millions of Readers and a Nobel Prize. They Also Won Her the Scorn of Highbrow Western Critics and the Venom of China's Communist Leaders. Now Her Adopted Land Is Rediscovering the Work of This Woman Once Denounced as a Cultural Enemy." ''The Wilson Quarterly'' vol 20#2 (Spring 2006) pp 24+</ref>

She was active in the civil rights movement and numerous liberal causes, and pushed successfully for the repeal of laws designed to exclude Chinese immigration to the U.S. She was especially active in helping children who were mentally or physically disabled, or were disadvantaged because of their race.<ref>In 1950 Buck published ''The Child Who Never Grew,'' a story about her own retarded daughter. The book was a landmark which helped to change American attitudes toward mental retardation.</ref>  She worked tirelessly during World War II to promote Chinese-American understanding and friendship. She was not hostile toward the Communists and by the 1950s she actively opposed American involvement in the [[Cold War]].  The Communists, however, ridiculed and attacked her for what they called her "attitude of distortion, smear, and vilification  towards the people of [[New China]] and its leaders."<ref>quoted in Sheila Melvin, "Pearl's Great Price: Pearl Buck's Chronicles of Everyday Life in China Won Her Millions of Readers and a Nobel Prize. They Also Won Her the Scorn of Highbrow Western Critics and the Venom of China's Communist Leaders. Now Her Adopted Land Is Rediscovering the Work of This Woman Once Denounced as a Cultural Enemy." ''The Wilson Quarterly'' vol 20#2 (Spring 2006) pp 24+</ref>

Prior to the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], Buck worked with [[Margaret Sanger]] to open a birth control clinic in Shanghai.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=klf5rF1BlkgC&pg=PA65 Profiles in Humanity: The Battle for Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Human Rights]</ref>

Prior to the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], Buck worked with [[Margaret Sanger]] to open a birth control clinic in Shanghai.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=klf5rF1BlkgC&pg=PA65 Profiles in Humanity: The Battle for Peace, Freedom, Equality, and Human Rights]</ref>