Pearl Buck in China (49 page)

The Good Earth
(previously
Wang Lung
),
9
,
15
,
41
,
62
,
79
,
95
,
97
,
99
–102,
109
,
124
,
128
,
133
,
151
,
154
,
158
,
176
,
185
,
187
–89,
192
–94,
198
–202,
203
,
210
,
214
,
224
,
226
,
227
,
228
,
238

film of,
229

stage version of,
208

The Hidden Flower,
240
–41

A House Divided,
79
–80,
98
,
136
,
153
,
172
,
179
–80,
184
,
224
–25,
229
,
239

Imperial Woman,
53
,
241
,
246
,
248
,
250

Kinfolk,
239

Letter from Peking,
67
,
175
,
177
,
239

The Living Reed,
239

The Long Love,
193
,
240

The Mother,
133
,
151
,
190
,
192
,
219

Other Gods,
167
,
191
,
235
–36

The Patriot,
239

Pavilion of Women,
241
,
245

Portrait of a Marriage,
76

The Promise,
239

Sons,
23
,
203

This Proud Heart,
166
,
233
–36,
246

The Three Daughters of Mme.

Liang,
239
,
241

The Time Is Noon,
28
,
76
,
84
,
87
,
119
,
120
–21,
123
,
143
,
148
,
151
,
168
,
190
,
223
–24,
236

The Townsman,
17
,
28
,
238
–39

Voices in the House,
8
–9,
241
–43

pamphlet,
“Is There a Place for the Foreign Missionary?,”
205

plays

Desert Incident,
244

The Good Earth,
208

short stories

“A Chinese Woman Speaks”,
139
–41,
147
,
149
,
175
,
176
;
see also East Wind, West Wind

“The Clutch of the Ancients,”
137

“Fool’s Sacrifice,”
224

“The Frill,”
132

“Lao Wang, the Farmer,”
154
,
185

“Lao Wang’s Old Cow,”
186

“Repatriated,”
177

“The Revolutionist,”
185

translation, All Men Are Brothers
(
Shui Hu Chuan
),
189
,
201
,
202
–3,
208

Buddhism,
48

Burma, PB and Walsh in,
215

Calvert School, Baltimore,
60

Calvinism,
37
,
69
,
115
,
205

Cambodia, PB and Walsh in,
215

Carroll, Lewis:
Alice in Wonderland,
66

Carter, Mrs. Thomas,
113
,
117

Carter, Neale,
86

Carter, Rev. Thomas,
95
,
101
,
107
,
108
,
112
–13,
117

Century Magazine,
54

Cervantes, Miguel de,
90

Chang, Madame,
104
–5,
108
,
116
–17

Chang, Pastor,
56

Chang Chung Chang, General,
155
–56

Chang family,
104
,
107

Chang Hsun,
101

Chefoo (Yantai), China,
28

Chen Duxiu (Ch’en Tu-hsiu),
89
–90,
173

Chiang Kaishek:

blamed for torrential rain,
197

campaign to exterminate the Communists,
164
,
171
,
188
–89

dismantles the silver standard,
213

endorses terror tactics,
160

his model army,
152

PB on,
172
,
180

posters denounce him,
178

proclaims a Nationalist government,
160

propaganda and psychological warfare,
153

runs regions as a police state,
189

seizes Shanghai with Communist support,
160

in strategic retreat,
164

summer capital in Kuling,
222

Chiang Kaishek, Madame,
197
–98

Chicago Defender,
212

children, rights of,
8
,
229

China:

death and funeral of Sun Yatsen,
180

education and mission schools,
81
–82

enforced removal of pigtails,
78
,
83

famine,
61
–63,
68
,
128

foot binding,
4
,
5
,
56
,
78
,
107
,
108
,
132

funerals,
2
,
59

infanticide,
xi
,
xii
,
3
,
57
,
111
,
112

Japan invades the mainland (1937),
229

PB banned in,
200
,
230
,
251

PB leaves China (1934),
233

PB on peasant farmers,
99
–100,
185
–86,
189

PB on urban working class,
194
,
230
–31

PB’s China (map),
x

PB transforms Western perceptions of China,
9
,
131
,
192
–94,
196
,
239

revivalist meetings after 1900 uprising,
46

Revolution (1911),
78
,
80
,
95
,
112

slavery,
xii
,
38
,
67
–68,
112

suicide,
xii
,
112
,
114
–15

U.S. indifference to China,
193
–94

warlords,
3
,
89
,
132
,
153
,
155
,
188

Western stereotyping of Chinese,
193
–94

China Critic, The,
213

China Famine Fund,
138

China Inland Mission, London,
69

Chinese civil war (1927–49),
214

the Bucks flee to Shanghai,
164

Chiang Kaishek establishes government in Nanjing,
177

Chiang Kaishek’s campaign to exterminate the Communists,
164
,
171
,
188
–89

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