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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.  

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.  

==Activities==

==Activities==

In 1936 she divorced her missionary husband of 17 years, John Lossing Buck, and married her publisher, Richard Walsh on the same day. She workled tirelessly during World War II to promote Chinese-American understanding and friendship. She was mot harsh on the Communists and by the 1950s actively ooposed 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>

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

==further reading==

==further reading==