Pearl Buck in China (48 page)

criticized by PB’s friends,
166

and daughter Carol,
146
,
150
,
168

determined to stay in China,
164
,
166

divorce from PB,
212
–13,
220

establishes Department of Agricultural Economics,
138

founder of Chinese Agricultural Economics,
98
–99,
181
,
191
,
212
,
213
–14,
280
n
191
,
283
n
214

funding,
138

head of the College of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Nanjing,
117
,
125
,
137
–39,
168
–69

Land Utilisation in China,
98
,
214
,
270
n
98

Marian Gardiner on,
103

marriage to PB,
91
,
93
,
96
,
113
–14,
122
–23,
139
,
163
,
166
–67,
238
,
243
–44,
246

meets and courts PB,
92

and missionaries’ protest to Washington,
154

PB pays tribute to,
207

and PB’s writing,
129
,
137

personality,
93
,
113
–14

plan for Chinese Church,
165

promotes Chinese autonomy,
100

sets up farming program,
108

settles in Nanxuzhou,
94
–95

surveys devastated flood area,
197
–98

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Comfort Buck;
née
Sydenstricker):

acts as emergency anaesthetist,
109

adoption of six children,
222
,
245

adopts Janice,
149

ambition to be a novelist,
53
,
54

appearance,
2
,
41
–42,
71
–72,
81
,
83
,
92
,
125
,
139
,
174
–75,
202
,
217
–18,
236

attends Methodist Mission School,
61
,
62
,
63

attitude to religion,
88
,
131
,
199
,
210

banned from returning to China,
200
,
230
,
251

becomes a professional writer,
127
–29

bilingual,
2
,
38
,
50
,
51
,
96
,
97
,
186

birth (June 26, 1892),
1
,
10
,
11

and Carol’s condition,
146
–49,
150
–51,
168
,
170
–71,
209

Chinese name,
2
,
61
,
230
,
253

controversial speaker,
203
–7,
210
–12

courtship by Walsh,
218

death at Danby (March 6, 1973),
253

death of her father,
198

decides to remove Carol to the United States,
176

demolishes mission movement,
203
–7,
210

denounced by missionaries,
210
–11

divorce from Lossing,
212
–13,
220

early years in Nanjing,
126

earning power,
237

education,
38
,
49
–51,
59
–61,
64
,
66
–68,
71
–77,
106
,
164

first published writings,
25
–26,
66

first returns to U.S. (1901),
33
,
34
–35

friendship with Marian Gardiner,
108

happiness of Chinese upbringing,
4
,
13
,
14
–15,
22
–24

health,
25

her dead siblings,
1
,
10
,
25
–27,
145

and her mother’s death,
118
–20

human rights campaigner,
8
,
211
–12,
228
–29,
237
–38,
245
–46

impact of
The Good Earth,
192
–94,
197

influenced by Chinese novels,
4
,
53
,
133
–35,
196

in Japan,
162
–64

longs to return to United States,
164

loss of first novel,
161
,
176

love for Janice,
169

major storytellers in her life,
4
–8

marriage to J. L. Buck,
91
,
93
,
96
,
113
–14,
122
–23,
139
,
163
,
166
–67,
190
–91,
218
,
238
,
243
–44,
246

marriage to Walsh,
218
,
221
,
238
,
246
,
249

meets Richard Walsh,
187

as mission teacher,
81
,
82
–83

as mission wife,
110
,
111
–13

in the Nanjing Incident,
156
–58,
161

Nobel Prize for literature,
9
,
230

nurses her mother,
79
–81,
85
–86

opposes racial stereotypes,
38
,
131
,
203

pregnancy and birth of Carol,
116
,
117
–18

reading,
53
–55,
62
,
90
–91,
133
–35,
233

received by the church,
41
–42

relationship with brother Edgar,
74
–76

relationship with her father,
45
,
49
,
65
–66,
144
–45,
226
–27

relationship with her mother,
8
,
63
,
86
,
121
–22,
123

relationship with Xu Zhimo,
173
–75,
278
n
175

resigns from mission movement,
211

searches for a secure environment for Carol,
181
–83

second return to U.S. (1910),
68
–70

separation from Carol,
182
–83,
187
,
190
,
192

settles in Nanxuzhou,
93
–95,
103
–7

sexual experimentation,
67
,
83
–84,
85

teaching Carol,
170
–71

teaching in Nanjing,
152

travels with Richard Walsh across Asia,
215
,
218

unable to have more children,
118

wins Howells medal,
193

wins Pulitzer Prize,
9
,
202

writes “A Chinese Woman Speaks,”
139
,
147
,
149

writes first novel,
129
,
154
,
161
,
176

writes
The Good Earth,
185
–87

and Yangtse floods (1931),
198

amnesia

Boxer rebellion,
31
,
33
–34

Christmas in Shanghai (1927),
165

despair over Carol,
164

famine in China (1906–7),
62

female suicide,
xii

infanticide,
xii
,
240

leaving for U.S.,
202

memory and forgetfulness,
xii
,
122
,
240
,
246
,
255
–56

Nanjing incident (1927),
xii
,
236

Randolph-Macon Woman’s College,
77
,
164

school days,
38
,
66

xenophobia,
xii
,
236

personality

aloofness,
66
,
77
,
238
,
251

awkwardness,
208

balanced judgment,
245

decisiveness,
63
,
219

defensive shell,
170

dignity,
217
–18

diplomacy,
96
,
169

generosity,
209
–10

humor,
96
–97,
239
,
245

innocence,
208

integrity,
226

perception,
208
,
245

sophistication,
81

strongwill,
63

stylishness,
81

vigor,
219

warmth,
226

writing habits and method,
129
,
154
,
186
,
233
,
236
–37,
239
,
241
–42

writing

fictional self portraits,
8
–9,
28
,
84
,
119
–21,
233
–34,
235
–36,
241
–42,
246

on sexuality,
28
,
140
,
176
–77,
190
–91,
242
–43

theory and practice of bestsellers,
9
,
236
–37,
239
–40,
251
–52

works

autobiography,

The Child Who Never Grew,
182
,
245
–46

My Several Worlds,
89
,
246

biography

The Exile,
8
,
11
,
18
,
39
,
119
–20,
121
–23,
141
,
147
,
190
,
226
,
227
–28

The Fighting Angel,
18
,
44
,
49
,
71
,
86
,
144
–45,
198
,
226
–28

The Flesh and the Spirit,
227

collected fiction, The First Wife and
Other Stories,
141

dialogues, For Spacious Skies: Journey in Dialogue, with Theodore F. Harris,
249

juvenile

The Chinese Children Next Door,
xi
–xii,
56
–57

The Young Revolutionist,
189

non-fiction articles

“Beauty in China,”
128
–29

“China and the West,”
150

“China in the Mirror of Her Fiction,”
191

“In China Too,”
127
–28

“Is There a Case for Foreign Missions?,”
204
–5

novels
:

The Angry Wife,
72

Dragon Seed,
239

East Wind, West Wind
(previously
Winds of Heaven
),
87
,
120
,
137
,
176
–77,
187
–88;
see also
“A Chinese Woman Speaks”