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'''Pearl S. Buck''' (born Pearl Sydenstricker, 1892-1972) was a novelist and teacher who spent much of her life in China; she learned Chinese before English but won the 1938 [[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. Her writing is simple and vivid, full of telling details and minute observations that bring her subjects to life. She published ninety books, many of them best-sellers, fifteen of them Book-of-the-Month Club selections. She wrote novels, short stories, plays, translations (from the Chinese), biography, autobiography, children's literature, essays, and poetry. Her work was translated into 145 different languages and dialects.

'''Pearl S. Buck''' (born Pearl Sydenstricker, 1892-1972) was a novelist and teacher who spent much of her life in China; she learned Chinese before English but won the 1938 [[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. Her writing is simple and vivid, full of telling details and minute observations that bring her subjects to life. She published ninety books, many of them best-sellers, fifteen of them Book-of-the-Month Club selections. She wrote novels, short stories, plays, translations (from the Chinese), biography, autobiography, children's literature, essays, and poetry. Her work was translated into 145 different languages and dialects.

The Chinese scholar Kang Liao concluded in 1997, Pearl Buck:

The Chinese scholar Kang Liao concluded in 1997, Pearl Buck:

:"single-handedly changed the distorted image of the Chinese people in the American mind through literature. Chinese people were no longer seen as cheap, dirty, ridiculous coolies or sneaky, vicious, insidious devils. The majority of Chinese were seen for the first time in literature as honest, kindhearted, frugal-living, hard-working, gods-fearing peasants who are much the same as American farmers."  

:"single-handedly changed the distorted image of the Chinese people in the American mind through literature. Chinese people were no longer seen as cheap, dirty, ridiculous coolies or sneaky, vicious, insidious devils. The majority of Chinese were seen for the first time in literature as honest, kindhearted, frugal-living, hard-working, gods-fearing peasants who are much the same as American farmers."  

 

In 1992, historian James C. Thomson Jr. called Buck "the most influential Westerner to write about China since 13th-century Marco Polo." [[Image:Buck1.jpg|thumb|200px]]

In 1992, historian James C. Thomson Jr. called Buck "the most influential Westerner to write about China since 13th-century Marco Polo."  

==Culture==

==Culture==