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Pearl S. Buck

26 June 1892 - 6 March 1973

Pearl S. Buck had always lived in China except for the time she spent in the United States when she was being educated. She studied at Randolph-Macon College and at Cornell University. She taught at the University of Nanking and at the Government University in Nanking under two national regimes. She lived in Nanking during the 1930's.
The Good Earth was Mrs. Buck's second published novel. East Wind: West Wind appeared under the John Day imprint in 1930. She contributed articles and stories to various magazines, among them The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and Asia.

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  • Cover of: Asia and democracy

    First published in 1943 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: China past and present

    First published in 1972 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1958 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The delights of learning: address delivered on the occasion of the University of Pittsburgh Honors Convocation, April 6, 1960.

    First published in 1960 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: East and West and the novel: Sources of the early Chinese novel. Addresses before the convocation of the North China union language school, February 1932.

    First published in 1932 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Elements of democracy in the Chinese traditional culture.

    First published in 1969 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The enemy

    First published in 1986 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Essay on myself, and A study of Pearl S. Buck

    First published in 1966 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: A Field of Rice

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  • Cover of: Freedom for all.

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  • Cover of: How it happens: talk about the German people, 1914-1933, with Erna van Pustau

    First published in 1947 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Johnny Jack and his beginnings

    First published in 1954 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: La Fleur cachée

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  • Cover of: L 'Amour demeure: L'Enfant qui ne devait jamais grandir

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  • Cover of: The laymen's mission report

    First published in 1932 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Little Fox in the Middle

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    First published in 1976 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1967 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: New evidence of the militarization of America: a report issued by Pearl Buck [and others].

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Subjects
Fiction, History, Social life and customs, China, fiction, Fiction in English, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Children's fiction, Families, Fiction, historical, general, Juvenile fiction, Large type books, Manners and customs, Biography, Women, World War, 1939-1945, American literature, China, Family, Man-woman relationships, Missions, Race relations, American Novelists, Civilization, Fiction, historical
Places
China, United States, Japan, Asia, Glendale College Library, Illinois River, India, Korea, Oklahoma, Ozark Mountains, Tahlequah, Amazon rainforest, Beijing (China), Calcutta, Caribbean, Dublin, East Asia, England, Germany, Ireland, Justice of the Peace Court, Kansas, Middle East, Missouri, New England
People
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), Absalom Sydenstricker (1852-1931), Billy Colman, Caroline (Stulting) Sydenstricker (1857-1921), Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker (1857-1921), Grandpa, Little Ann, Mama, Mrs. Pritchard, Old Dan, Old Man Pritchard, Papa, Rainie, Rubin, Yat-sen Sun (1866-1925), Abner Snopes, Absalom Sydenstricker, Absalom Sydenstricker (1852-1931,), Amanda Wingfield, Bartleby, Bill Hutchinson, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker Mrs. (1857-1921), Cicero, Cixi Empress dowager of China (1835-1908), General Zaroff
Time
20th century, 1937-1945, 1928-1937, 1945-, 19th century, 20th Century, 1864-1919, 1890's on I presume, 1908, 1912-1928, 1912-1949, 1918-1933, 1949-1976, 1950-, 960-1644, Civil War, 1861-1865, Ming dai, Ming dynasty, 1368-1644, Roughly between WWI and WW2, Song dynasty, 960-1279, Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368

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  • Pearl S. Buck; Richard Hoffmann (Berech./Trans.)
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