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Born in Hillsboro, WV; Spent her childhood in China in Chinkiang on the Yangtse River. Spoke Chinese before English. Parents were missionaries. As a child, forces to flee rebel forces of the Boxer Rebellion.

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At first, educated by her mother and a Chinese tutor, a Confucian Scholar.Then she was sent to a boarding school in Shanghai at 15. After that, attended a Women's College in Virginia in the US and studied psychology.  Graduated in 1914 and returned to China as a teacher.
1924 returned to US to seek medical care for her daughter, who was mentally retarded. In 1926, M.A. from Cornell University in Literature.

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This book focussed on the idealism of a University student who was crushed by the brutalities of war.
(Written after Communist Revolution in China)

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This was a personal story about her own daughter whose mental development stopped at age 4.

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Pearl Buck was married to an American agricultural missionary, John Buck. They live in Ahnwei, China, where Pearl gathered her ideas for this novel. , The subject of her mentally handicapped daughter is also present in one of the characters.

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Settled in small village in North China; He was agricultural expert. In 1920's the Bucks moved to Nanking, and she taught English and American Literature at the University.
Left China in 1927, moved to Japan, divorced husband; Moved to Pennsylvania and married her publisher, Richard Walsh.
Began writing...

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1941 EAST AND WEST ASSOCIATION Established

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1941 EAST AND WEST ASSOCIATION Established

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Buck and Walsh active in humanitarian causes to help develop understanding between Asia and U.S.

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Adoptions for Asian American Children

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Pearl Buck wrote The Good Earth in only 3 short months. 

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Pearl Buck wrote The Good Earth in only 3 short months. 

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Best-selling novel in the United States  in 1931 and 1932.

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932

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The novel is set in a timeless China and provides no specific dates. References to Intro of Railroads and the 1911 Revolution suggest early 20th century; 

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The novel is set in a timeless China and provides no specific dates. References to Intro of Railroads and the 1911 Revolution suggest early 20th century; 

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1964 PEARL S. BUCK FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED

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1964 PEARL S. BUCK FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED

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Addressed the issues of poverty and discrimination faced by children in Asian countries

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First American woman and fourth woman overall to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature

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Early 1900's time of turmoil in China. Suspicious of Western ideas. Missionaries are trying to convert Chinese to Christianity. Distrust of western intruders

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Early 1900's time of turmoil in China. Suspicious of Western ideas. Missionaries are trying to convert Chinese to Christianity. Distrust of western intruders

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Westerns were murdered and US joined with Japan, Russia, Britain and France and sent in troops to stop unrest. The result: treaty that gave Western countries right to station troops in China indefiniately

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1911 Qing Dynasty OVERTHROWN China in TURMOIL

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1911 Qing Dynasty OVERTHROWN China in TURMOIL

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Now different political groups: Communist/Nationalists all trying to dominate; In rural areas Warlords took control and charged high taxes

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1926-27 Nationalist Party launched NORTHERN EXPEDITION

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1926-27 Nationalist Party launched NORTHERN EXPEDITION

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Troop marched North and conquered the Warlords along the way. This is mentioned in the GOOD EARTH. Wang Lung isn't too concerned UNTIL they try to recruit him as a soldier when he in the Great City.

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Wanted the world to know about the Chinese People