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'''Pearl S. Buck''' (1892-1972) was a novelist and teacher who spent much of her life in China. Her novel ''The Good Earth'' (1931), about the travails and triumphs of Chinese peasants, won both a Pulitzer and [[Nobel Prize]] and became a worldwide best-seller and the basis of a popular film.
'''Pearl S. Buck''' (1892-1972) was a novelist and teacher who spent much of her life in China; she learned Chinese before English but won the [[Nobel Prize]] in literature for her English novels. Her novel ''The Good Earth'' (1931), about the travails and triumphs of Chinese peasants, won the Pulitzer Prize and became a worldwide best-seller and the basis of a popular film.
Although she was not herself an official missionary she served on the ''Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions'' until forced out by the actions of [[John Gresham Machen]]<ref name=Hart> Hart, D. G. "Christianity, Modern Liberalism, and J. Gresham Machen." ''[[Modern Age]]'' 1997 39(3): 234-245.</ref> She wrote many stories that illustrate the lives, efforts, failures and achievements of some missionaries. Several of her books, especially ''The Exile,'' ''Fighting Angel'', ''Pavilion of Women'', ''Kinfolk'', and ''Peony'' helped Western readers reconsider Christian missions and understand why they never reached more than 1% of the Chinese people.
==further reading==
==further reading==
* Conn, Peter. ''Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography.'' (1996). 468 pp.
* Conn, Peter. ''Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography.'' (1996). 468 pp.
* Liao, Kang. ''Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Bridge across the Pacific'' (1997) [http://www.questia.com/read/9506755?title=Pearl%20S.%20Buck%3a%20A%20Cultural%20Bridge%20across%20the%20Pacific online edition] 184pp
* Lian, Xi. ''The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932.'' (1997).
* Lian, Xi. ''The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932.'' (1997).
* Lipscomb, Elizabeth J. et al. eds. ''The Several Worlds of Pearl S. Buck: Essays Presented at a Centennial Symposium, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, March 26-28, 1992'' (1994) [http://www.questia.com/read/28632275?title=The%20Several%20Worlds%20of%20Pearl%20S.%20Buck%3a%20Essays%20Presented%20at%20a%20Centennial%20Symposium%2c%20Randolph-Macon%20Woman's%20College%2c%20March%2026-28%2c%201992 online edition]
* Shaffer, Robert. "Women and International Relations: Pearl S. Buck's Critique of the Cold War," ''Journal of Women's History,'' Vol. 11, 1999 [http://www.questia.com/read/98496709?title=Women%20and%20International%20Relations%3a%20Pearl%20S.%20Buck's%20Critique%20of%20the%20Cold%20War online edition]
==External links==
* [http://www.questia.com/library/literature/pearl-s-buck.jsp online books and articles from Questia]
==References==
==References==
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