Nanjing under threat from hostile armies, 168
warlords and Communist insurgents challenge central government, 188
Westerners forced to leave Nanjing, 160–61
Chinese Communist Party founded (1920), 90
amateurish beginnings, 135
Chen Duxiu overthrown as leader, 173
Chiang Kaishek’s campaign to exterminate Communists, 164, 171, 188–89
Communist takeover (1949), 217, 229
domination of civilian government at Wuhan, 154
and the illiterate rural population, 9
and the Nationalists, 152, 154–55, 160, 171, 180
Chinese Exclusion Acts, 194, 238
Chinese literature, 4, 53–54, 133–35, 185, 191, 196, 211, 240
Chinese Recorder, 10, 43, 46, 67, 82, 100, 101, 137, 165, 185, 198, 204, 205
Christian Observer, 25, 198
Chu, Mr. (cook who married Lu Sadze), 169
civil rights, 8
Coffman (previously Kauffman) family, 39
Columbia University, 92, 203
Confucianism, 48, 90, 105, 106
Confucius, 48, 49–50, 60, 66, 131
Conn, Peter: Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, 257
Cornell University, 92, 144, 147, 150, 152, 202, 207, 212
Cosmopolitan, 203, 210, 219, 237
Craighill, Marian, see Gardiner, Marian Crawford, Joan, 247
Crescent Moon journal, 174
Cui Zechun, 214
Danby, Vermont, 250, 252–53
Daniels, Dr. Horton, 117, 118
Daniels, Helen, 131
Daoism, 48
David Lloyd Agency, 244 see also Lloyd, David
Department of Agricultural Economics (China), 138
Dickens, Charles, 54–55, 66, 90, 194, 196, 233
Ding Ling, 173
disabled children, rights of, 8
discrimination, racial/gender, 211–12, 229
Door of Hope, Shanghai, 67, 242
Drake, Beverly, 252–53
Dream of the Red Chamber, The (Cao Xueqin), 4, 134
Droop Mountain, Alleghenies, 59
Dumas, Alexandre, 90
East and West Association, 238
Edmunds, Emma, see White, Emma Locke
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 247
Eliot, George, 54
Eliot, T. S., 195
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 244, 249
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 193, 224
Forum, 128, 149
Foxe, John: Book of Martyrs, 54
Friday Literary Club (Shanghai School), 66, 154
Fu family, 57
Fukien, 215
Gandhi, Mahatma M. K., xi, 10, 57
Gardiner, Marian, 95, 96–97, 103, 104, 107, 108–10, 111–12, 113, 115–16, 117, 167, 196
Ginling Women’s College, Nanjing, 152
Goldman, Edward, 255
Good Housekeeping magazine, 235
Graham, Rev. James, 12, 19, 211
Grand Canal, China, 7, 19, 20, 29
Great Depression, 194, 213
Greenbrier County, West Virginia, 39, 71, 76
Green Hills Farm, Perkasie, Bucks
County, Pennsylvania, 221–22, 223, 236, 246, 247–48, 252
Green Mountains, Vermont, 250
Guangzhou, 215
Communist uprising suppressed, 171
Nationalist headquarters, 152
PB’s trip with Lossing, 192
Guling Museum: Story of Old Villas exhibition (2007), 263n25 see also Kuling
Guthrie, Mrs. J. M., 211
Hancock, Charles, 63
Hangzhou, fall of, 155
Harbin, Manchuria, 69
Harlem, New York: exhibition of black painters, 211, 223
Harper’s Magazine, 206
Harris, Theodore (Fred L Hair):
charms PB, 247–48
dancing master, 247
PB lives in Vermont with, 249–50
PB’s companion in old age, 175
PB’s official biography ghostwritten by, 175, 249, 256
and PB’s will, 247–48
Pearl S. Buck: A Biography, 249
and the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, 247–48
personality, 247, 249
Hillsboro, West Virginia, 11, 34–35, 36, 41, 76
Hobart, Alice Tisdale, 126–27, 134
Hocking, Ernest, 189, 207, 245
Holy Rollers, 67
Honan, China, 29
Honan-Shandung Education Association, 100, 270n100
Hood, George, 94, 95, 108–9, 117
Hood, Mary, 94, 95, 108–9, 117
Howells medal, 193
Hsieh Ping-hsin, 173
Hsu, Mrs., a Christian convert, 107, 110
Hsu, Pei-yun, 108
Hsuchien, 12–13, 15–19, 20, 22
Hsuchowfu, 13, 19, 58
Hsu family, 108
Huai River, 198
Hugo, Victor, 90
Hunan, 192
Hu Shi, 90–91, 92, 95, 123, 137, 269n92
Hu Zhongchi, 198
Hwang, Mr., 101
Hwei River, 93
Ibsen, Henrik: The Doll’s House, 91, 123
India, PB and Walsh in, 215
Institute of Pacific Relations (U.S.), 181
Ithaca, New York, 147, 148, 164, 207
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë), 66
Japan:
abandoned mixed-race children, 241
invasion of the Chinese mainland (1937), 229
Japanese marines land in Shanghai, 201
systematic seizure of territory in Manchuria, 201
Jewell, Eugenia, 67
Jewell, Martha, 67 also see Miss Jewell’s school
Jiang Kanghu, Professor, 230
John Day Publishing Company, 187, 206, 208, 216, 219, 225, 226, 238, 244, 249
Johnstone, Dr. Edward, 182
Joyce, James, 195
Junkin, Nettie du Bose, 228
Kafka, Franz, 195
Kang Liao, Professor, 186, 194, 227, 230
Kansas, 238–39
Kansas City Star, 239
Kelsey, Dean, 144
Kelsey, Ray, 144, 147, 151
Kennedy, John F., 247, 248
Kennedy, Robert, 247
Kiangsu province, 186
Kiukang (Jiujiang), 58
Kobe, Japan, 162
Korea, 162, 239, 241, 247, 249
Kuanyin (goddess), 26, 57
Kuling (now Guling), 25, 58–59, 85–86, 92, 93, 95, 116, 127, 143, 144, 153, 198, 222, 228, 263n25 see also Guling Museum
Kuling American School, 66
Kuling Mountain Company, 25, 263n25
Kung, Mr. (tutor), 49–51, 53, 54, 55, 59–60, 90, 106
Kuo Mo-jou, 173
Laos, PB and Walsh in, 215
Lao She: “Rickshaw Boy,” 185
Laura L. Messenger Memorial Prize, 150, 152, 231
Lewis, Ardron, 212, 213, 214
Silver and Prices, 213
Lewisburg, West Virginia, 39
Lexington, Virginia, 38
Liang Shi-chiu, Prof., 175, 278n175
Li family, 107
Lindbergh, Charles, 198
Lin Meng, 30, 33
Lin Yutang, 194, 213, 216, 217
My Country and My People, 216, 225
Little, Edward Selby, 263n25
“Little Meatball” (son of Lu Sadze), 132, 133
Liu Haiping, 229, 257
Lloyd, Andrea, 237, 244, 246
Lloyd, David, 176, 187, 192, 237, 244
London, Sydenstrickers in, 69
Longden, Florence, 63, 67
Longden, Mary, 60, 63
Longden, Ruth, 63, 67
Longden sisters, 60
Long Moxiang, 189
Lossing, see Buck, John Lossing Lotus Lake, Nanjing, 130
Luce, Henry, 244
Lu Sadze, 273n132
her pregnancies, 132–33
joins
the Bucks in Japan, 163
model for The Mother, 190
personality, 133, 163
runs Buck household, 133, 169
saves the lives of the Buck family, 157–58, 160
second marriage, 169
and the Thomsons, 133
Lushan, see Kuling
Lu Xun, 173, 185, 230
Ah Q and Other Stories, 216–17
Lynchburg, Virginia, 68, 70
McAfee, Dr. Cleland Boyd, 204, 210, 211
McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 244
Machen, Dr. J. Gresham, 210
McKinley, President William, 37, 51
Macon, Randolph, 212
Madras Mail, 212
Manchester Guardian, 216
Manchu Dynasty, 51–52, 61, 78, 248
Manchuria, 19, 147, 201, 218
Mao Zedong, 89, 227, 239
distributes New Youth, 135
and Edgar Snow, 195
endorses terror tactics, 160
and Shui Hu Chuan, 189
Ma Pangbo (Mr. Ma), 31, 47, 56, 143, 198
Martin, Dr. W. A. P., 61, 263n27
Matisse, Henri, 9–10
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, 147
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick, 161
Mencius, 50
Mennonites, 39, 40
Messenger prize, see Laura L. Messenger Memorial Prize
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 202
Millbank Memorial Fund, New York, 190
Miss Jewell’s School, Shanghai, 66–68, 154
mixed-race children, abandoned, 8, 241
Morgan, Cornelia, 84, 269n84
Morgenthau, Henry, 220
Moscow, Sydenstricker family in, 69
Mount Lu/Lushan, 58, 128, 222, 250
Mulan (folk heroine), 53, 119
Murray Hill Hotel, Park Avenue, New York, 209
Nagasaki, Japan, 162
Nanchang, 154
Nanjing, 78, 92, 154, 196, 201–2
battle rages, 156–57
the Bucks as the first white family to return, 177
the Bucks’ house, 125–27, 140, 177–78
the Bucks leave for Beijing, 201
Caroline Grace born in, 117–18
Chiang Kaishek establishes his government there, 177
contempt for the white community, 178
described, 129–30, 177, 179
execution of student agitators, 155
famine (1920–21), 128
overrun by soldiers of Chang Chung Chang, 155–56
PB’s final departure from, 218
PB’s house guests, 125, 126–27
PB writes the story of her mother’s life in, 121
protests on inaction against Japanese (1931), 201
rail link disrupted by shells, 201
shooting of foreigners, 157–59
Westerners leave, 160–61
Westerners warned to leave, 154, 156
Nanjing Incident (1927), 156–61, 185, 276n157
Nanjing Theological Seminary, 47, 227, 284n227
Nanjing University, 95
College of Agriculture and Forestry, 117, 125, 137–39, 159, 164, 181, 213–14
conference in Lossing’s honor (2008), 214
Language School, 125, 126, 204
PB teaches English courses, 126
rumours of plot to burn it down, 189
Nanxuzhou, Anhui, 95, 97, 186, 196
the Bucks leave, 117, 123
described, 93–94, 98, 104, 110–11
farming people, 100
girls’ school, 107, 110, 113
gun battles and martial law, 102
local accent, 98
Lossing based in, 92
Lossing’s statistical surveys, 98–99
Lossing starts a farmer’s club, 100–101
overrun by soldiers, 101–2
PB and Lossing settle in, 93–95
railway, 95
Nanxuzhou Agricultural Experiment Station, 95
Nationalist Party (Kuomintang), 135, 178
and Communists, 152, 154–55, 160, 171, 180
military brutality, 231
ultimate defeat, 229
National Library, Beijing, 201
National Revolutionary Army, 153, 154, 156, 159, 179
Sixth Army, 160
National Southeastern University, Nanjing, 126, 175
National Urban League, 211–12
Nehru, Jawaharlal, xi, 10, 56
Neufchâtel, France, 69
New Culture, 135
New York:
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, 111, 112, 117
Stultings’ arrival in, 36
New Yorker, 245
New York Herald Tribune, 195
New York Times, 9, 210, 214, 230
New Youth magazine, 89–90, 91, 135, 173
Ni Shi Chung, 101
Niupipo, China, 119
Nixon, Richard, 229, 251
Nobel Prize for literature, 9, 230
North Kiangsu area, 7, 15, 49, 61, 143, 145, 189
North Kiangsu Presbyterian Mission, 32, 58, 142–43
Osborn, Ruth, 110–11
Paget Agency, 176
pai-ha (baihua) (Chinese vernacular), 90, 134, 135, 137
Paris, Sydenstricker family in, 69
Paul, Saint, 47, 64, 86
Peake, Mervyn: Titus Groan trilogy, 263n25
Pearl Buck Museum, Zhenjiang, 268n79
Pearl Harbor, bombing of (1941), 238
Pearl S. Buck Foundation, 247–48, 249
Peitaho (Beidaihe), 147, 164
Pennsylvania, 249
Philadelphia, 250
Convention Hall, 250
Philadelphia, 249
Pleasant Valley, New York, 118, 167
Plutarch: Lives, 54
Pocahontas County, West Virginia, 34, 71, 76
Poughkeepsie, New York State, 202
Presbyterian church, 37, 49, 203
Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 118
Pulitzer Prize, 9, 202
Purple Mountain, Nanjing, 130, 154, 180, 197
Qiu Anxiong: Staring into Amnesia, 255
racial discrimination, 38, 131, 203, 211–12, 223, 229
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 68, 71–77, 79, 110, 164
Red Cross, 161
Reisner, Bertha, 139, 141, 144, 154, 253
Reisner, John, 117, 125, 137, 168, 191
Reisner family, 146
Re-Thinking Missions: A Laymen’s Inquiry after 100 Years, 207
Revised Mandarin New Testament, 69
“rickshaw-coolie school” of writers, 134, 136
Robinson, Miss (headteacher), 61
Rockefeller family, 114
Rockefeller Foundation, 181
Roebling, Paul, 244
Rogers, Will, 210
Romance of Three Kingdoms, The (Luo Guanzhong), 53, 134
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 9, 105, 212
Rowe, Sarah, 246
Russia:
Absalom predicts a revolution, 70
Sydenstrickers visit, 69
Russian Revolution, 135
Sai Jinhua, 230
Sai Zhenzhu, 2, 230, 253
Saturday Evening Post, 237
Scott, Sir Walter, 54, 90
Second Coming, 47
Second Presbyterian Church, Troy, New York, 149
Shakespeare, William, 54
Shandong, China, 29, 135, 189
Shanghai:
American School, 79
Bucks flee to, 161
Chinese and Japanese armies clash around (1931), 201
coming of the railroad (1904), 52
fear of Communist uprising in, 171
French Concession, 164, 169, 216
Japanese marines land in, 201
literary scene, 172
nightlife, 172
rich gangsters in, 172
seized by Chiang Kaishek, 160
sex trafficking, 68, 242
Shanghai High School, 174
Sydenstrickers arrive in (1880), 6–7
Sydenstrickers flee to (1895), 31–32
Western warships in the river (1927), 154
Shanghai Mercury, 66, 150
Shanxi, 30
Shao Teh-hsing (Shao Dexin; later Shao Chang-hsiang or Zhongxiang), PB’s collaborator, 185–86, 188, 279n185
Shau Wing Chan, Prof., 278n175
Shaw, George Bernard, 213
Shi Nai-an, 203
Sino-Japanese War (1894–5), 15, 18–19
Sino-Japanese War (1931), 201, 239
slavery in China, xii, 67–68, 112
slavery in U.S., 37, 38, 211, 223
Smedley, Agnes, 174
Smith, Dr., 114
Snow, Edgar, 196, 216
and cultural veto against China, 193–94
fascinated by contemporary vernacular fiction, 217
long-term goal, 216
marriage, 216
personality, 216
Red Star over China, 216
reports on famine in northwestern China, 195
Snow, Helen Foster, 216, 243–44
and cultural veto against China, 193–94
on The Good Earth, 200
long-term goal, 216
marriage, 216
on PB, 196, 239–40
personality, 216
Soong, T.V., 198
Soong Meiling, 172
Southeastern University, Nanjing, 135–36, 138, 139, 155, 175
Southern Presbyterian Church, 42, 48–49
Southern Presbyterian Mission, 6–7, 20, 28, 49, 81, 107
Board, 79, 158, 162, 183, 189, 199, 204, 210
Standard Oil, 83, 88
Stewart, Charles, 212
Stirling, Nora, 256, 278n175
Stulting, Calvin (PB’s uncle), 36
Stulting, Cornelius (PB’s uncle), 34, 35, 36, 37
Stulting, Grace (PB’s cousin), 34–35, 36, 38, 41
Stulting, Hermanus (PB’s grandfather), 16, 34, 35–36, 38, 39
Stulting, Johanna (PB’s grandmother), 36–37
Stulting, Mynheer Cornelis Johannis (PB’s greatgrandfather), 36
Stulting family, 6–7, 34, 35, 37, 38–39, 168, 264n35
Sun Chuanfang, General, 152, 154, 155, 156, 164
Sun Yatsen, 81–82, 83, 89, 135, 152, 180, 183
Sydenstricker, Absalom (PB’s father):
appearance, 14, 15–16, 31, 40, 41, 144, 198
arrival in Shanghai (1880), 6–7
base of Hsuchien, 12, 13, 15–17
beaten up on the road (1895), 19
and “Boxer” rebellion, 29–30, 31–32, 33
a Calvinist predestinarian, 47
campaign for North Kiangsu, 12–13, 15–16, 18–20, 47–49, 142–43
and Carie’s death, 119
and Carie’s declaration of independence, 18
childhood, 40–41
in the Chinese Revolution (1911), 78
death, 198
departmental head, Nanjing Theological Seminary, 143–44
disapproves of Lossing, 141–42, 165–66
downfall of, 142–43, 204
education, 40
family background, 39–41
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