Pearl Buck in China (52 page)
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Authors: Hilary Spurling
two-year sabbatical (1890–91),
11
–12
on
wen-li,
136
writes
Our Life and Work in China,
145
Sydenstricker, Andrew (PB’s grandfather),
39
,
40
,
41
Sydenstricker, Arthur (PB’s brother),
1
,
7
,
10
,
25
,
145
Sydenstricker, Caroline (Carie;
née
Stulting; PB’s mother),
71
adopts a Chinese daughter,
56
,
266
n
56
arrival in Shanghai (1880),
6
–7
birth of Pearl,
10
,
11
builds a house to her own design,
88
–89
buried at Niupipo,
119
childhood in West Virginia,
6
in the Chinese Revolution,
78
death,
118
–19
deaths of four of her children,
10
,
15
,
25
–27
education after mother’s death,
37
family background,
6
famine relief,
62
hates the Yangtse,
24
health,
13
–14,
15
,
25
–28,
79
–81,
85
–86,
116
as home-maker,
13
,
116
informal clinics for women,
8
,
81
in Kuling,
58
–59,
85
,
87
,
88
–89,
118
marital friction,
15
,
17
–18,
23
,
28
,
63
–65,
68
,
86
–87,
120
–22
marriage to Absalom,
6
,
7
,
11
,
28
,
39
,
41
,
122
,
144
and move to Hsuchien,
15
and PB’s education,
64
,
66
,
68
personality,
35
–36,
63
,
64
,
75
,
86
–87,
115
,
226
,
228
a proto-feminist,
18
,
64
relationship with PB,
63
,
75
,
86
,
120
,
121
–22,
123
a Southern Presbyterian missionary,
2
,
6
–7,
11
as a storyteller,
6
–8,
30
,
36
a teacher,
13
,
50
,
60
Sydenstricker, Clyde Hermanus (PB’s brother),
145
birth,
16
childhood,
21
death from diphtheria,
25
–26
health,
17
Sydenstricker, Edgar (PB’s brother),
7
,
63
,
187
,
189
–90
appearance,
74
breakup of first marriage,
75
–76,
123
,
212
at the Buck farm,
167
Carie worries about him,
16
Director of Population Studies, Millbank Memorial Fund, New York,
189
–90
education,
1
,
13
,
20
,
34
,
38
,
64
ill-health,
220
newspaper editor in Lynchburg,
70
personality,
74
premature death,
223
relationship with PB,
1
,
74
–76,
151
,
209
,
220
second marriage,
212
,
220
teaches PB to walk,
1
visits Green Hills Farm,
223
Sydenstricker, Edith (PB’s sister),
1
,
7
,
10
,
25
,
145
Sydenstricker, Frances (
née
Feronica Kauffman; PB’s grandmother),
39
–40
Sydenstricker, Frank (PB’s uncle),
40
Sydenstricker, Hiram (PB’s uncle),
40
Sydenstricker, Maude (PB’s sister),
1
,
10
,
25
,
26
–27,
145
,
263
n
27
Sydenstricker, Philip (PB’s American ancestor),
221
Sydenstricker, Phyllis (PB’s sister-inlaw),
212
,
223
Sydenstricker, Rev. David (PB’s uncle),
41
Sydenstricker family,
39
,
168
,
264
n
39
Taiping Rebellion (1850–64),
4
–5
Tattler
(student magazine),
75
Tawney, R. H.:
Land and Labour in China,
189
Thackeray, William Makepeace,
54
Thailand, PB and Walsh in,
215
Thomson, Margaret,
126
,
131
–32,
133
,
137
,
159
,
169
,
188
,
192
,
214
,
248
Thomson family,
146
,
159
,
162
,
273
n
132
Thoreau, Henry,
49
Tibet, Lossing’s field trip to,
215
Time
magazine,
244
Timperley, H. J.,
216
Tolstoy, Count Leo,
90
trans-Siberian railway,
69
Trescott, Paul B.,
191
,
274
n
137
,
280
n
191
,
283
n
214
Trotsky, Leon,
231
T’sai Yun (Precious Cloud, PB’s Chinese sister),
56
,
266
n
56
Absalom sets up his campaign headquarters,
7
Absalom’s group of Chinese followers,
46
–47
Carie’s informal clinics for women,
8
opposition to Abasalom in the mission group,
12
,
19
–20
Sydenstricker family flees to from Hsuchien,
18
,
22
the Sydenstricker house described,
13
Tsui, R. H.,
215
Tsuyung, Yunnan province,
84
Twain, Mark,
3
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
54
Tom Sawyer,
54
Tz’u Hsi (Cixi), Empress Dowager,
51
–52,
53
,
59
,
252
United States:
Clyde educated in,
1
,
20
and PB’s analysis of mission practice,
49
PB’s first articles published in,
129
PB stigmatized as a suspected Communist,
230
right-wing intolerance,
244
Sydenstrickers on furlough (1890),
11
; (1901),
32
; (1910),
69
–70; (1918),
116
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
95
,
181
U.S. Farm Bureau,
165
U.S. Treasury,
220
Vancouver,
219
Victoria, Queen,
59
Vietnam, PB and Walsh in,
215
Vineland Training School, New Jersey,
182
,
202
,
209
,
219
–20,
245
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York,
202
–3
Walsh, Janice,
see
Buck, Janice Walsh, Natalie,
209
,
222
,
223
,
247
,
251
Walsh, Richard:
accepts PB’s first novel,
187
adoption of six children,
222
,
245
advises PB to go into hiding,
210
appearance,
207
–8,
218
attracted to PB,
212
avoids liquidation of his company,
219
death,
243
–44
divorce from first wife,
220
–21
editor of
Asia
magazine,
215
–16
edits PB’s books heavily,
237
health,
243
,
244
–45,
246
long courtship of PB,
218
marriage to PB,
218
,
221
,
238
,
246
,
249
and PB’s second book,
188
personality,
188
,
208
,
225
–26,
243
–44
portrayed by PB in
The Long Love,
193
president of John Day,
187
and success of
The Good Earth,
192
–93
travels with PB across Asia,
215
works closely with PB,
208
–9
appearance,
4
bound feet,
4
,
5
death,
79
health,
57
looks after Clyde,
16
–17
and PB’s clothes,
14
and PB’s happy childhood,
13
,
14
PB’s nurse,
4
personality,
4
and Taiping Rebellion,
4
–5
tales of demons and spirits,
4
Wang the farmer, (Lossing’s star pupil),
101
Warsaw, Sydenstricker family in,
69
Washington and Lee college, Lexington, Kentucky,
38
,
274
n
141
Welcome House Adoption Agency,
240
–41,
247
,
250
,
251
Wellesley College, Massachusetts,
68
wen-li (ancient classical written Chinese language),
50
,
90
,
136
–37
Westernization,
52
Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia,
210
West Virginia,
6
,
26
,
32
,
36
,
38
,
42
,
71
,
79
,
98
White, Emma Locke (
née
Edmunds),
76
–77,
84
,
111
,
130
,
137
,
139
,
146
,
190
,
224
White Snake, The
(Zhao Quingge),
4
,
53
Wiltsie, Dr. James,
95
,
109
,
113
,
114
,
116
Woman’s Home Companion,
226
,
237
Wu family,
107
Wuhan, Hubei province,
154
Wuhu, Anhui,
186
xenophobia,
29
