Pearl Buck in China (42 page)

40
“In that house bursting
FA,
25.

40
“I saw him an overworked boy
FA,
18.

40
“his austerities, his shynesses
Ex,
174.

41
“It was the same sick helplessness
Sons,
313.

41
“When he came back
PB,
My Mother’s House;
see also
FA,
81, 182.

41
demanding to join the church—
FA,
171–74.

42
“slender face
EDts.

42
“with the feeling
FA,
181.

42
“He was a spirit
FA,
12–13.

42
Station meetings were stormy affairs
—
FA,
67–70, 75–76; further information from
Minutes of the North Kiangsu Mission of the Southern Presbyterian Church,
printed annually in Shanghai from 1899 in PHS.

43
“We are better judges—
Rev. C. W. Mateer in CR 31, January 1900, 18.

43
“I succeeded
FA,
67.

43
“My memory of that circle
FA,
76.

43
“On Sunday everyone
FA,
67–68.

44
“if a little water
FA,
72.

44
“We sat silent
FA,
73.

45
“when something he kept curbed
FA,
55; EDts, 49–50.

45
“I have seen other
FA,
69.

45
Pearl admitted in private—
ED
82.

45
“Their language as well as their thought
Light and Shadows of the Mission World in the Far East,
by S. H. Chester, Richmond, Virginia, 1899, chapter 5 (a report on mission work in the Yangtse Valley by the secretary of foreign missions in the U.S. Presbyterian Church).

46
“Assyria, Babylon, Greece
Rev. P. F. Price in
CR
31, September 1900.

46
“Even the smallest children
By My Spirit,
by Rev. Jonathan Goforth [1929], Evangel Pub House, 2004, chapter 3 (report on a revivalist campaign in Manchuria in 1908).

46
“so hopeful and encouraging—AS
, “The Importance of the Direct Phase of Mission Work,”
CR
41, June 1910, 391.

46
“I never stood up
FA,
137.

47
“There is fire in him
FA,
98. My account of Ma Pangbo pieced together from
FA passim; OLW,
36; Thompson Brown,
Earthen Vessels and Transcendent Power,
111.

47
“Many times I stood there
FA,
164.

47
“the Pauline spirit—
This and the next two quotes come, respectively, from an editorial in
CR
24, February 1893, and articles by Rev. J. Goforth,
CR
39, October 1908, and by Rev. Arnold Foster,
CR
19, 1888, 528.

48
“The power to work miracles
AS, “Jesus as Teacher and Trainer,”
CR
24, September 1893, 197.

48
“into three great types
Between Two Worlds,
by PB, West Virginia 1992, 8.

48
“aggressive evangelistic work”
—
CR
41, June 1910, 411.

48
“The effrontery of all this
MSW,
49.

48
“a stinging conviction of sin”
“Preaching to the Chinese by Similarities and Contrasts,”
CR
20, July 1889, 328.

49
“all the essentials of Salvation”
FA,
92.

49
“in anger and indignation”
This and the next quote from
Is There a Case for Foreign Missions?
, by PB, John Day, New York, 1933, 10–11.

49
“Somehow I had learned from Thoreau
MSW,
51.

50
“in his beautiful polished Peking Mandarin”
—
MSW,
50.

50
“I became mentally bifocal
MSW,
52.

51
“His favorite text
MSW,
53.

51
“When I was in the Chinese world
MSW,
10.

51
“so strangely called
MSW,
49.

52
“Gradually the workers disappeared
This and the next quote are from ED, 85–86.

53
“a brilliant figure”
—
Kinfolk,
by PB, 1945, Moyer Bell, 1996, 4.

53
“I decided well before
I was ten
MSW,
76.

53
“Such books poison the thoughts
IW,
19.

54
“And there quite alone
This and the next quote are from THii, 229; see also
FA,
35;
MSW,
62.

55
“plaguing everyone with questions
MSW,
62.

56
“and in His images”
MSW,
70.

56
“I heard talk about this
MSW,
48.

56
“They grew up with me
THi, 51. The next quote is from THi, 4. For the story of Tsai Yun, see
Ex,
12, 13–15, 300;
The Chinese Children Next Door
, by PB, New York, 1942;
MSW,
5–7; THi, 45–55. PB gave her adoptive sister different names, origins, ages, even generations in these four versions of her story, which grow progressively less romanticized. Passing references elsewhere (
ED,
129;
SS,
30) confirm that she did actually exist, and I have followed the last and fullest of these accounts, which seems the most authentic.

56
“A first girl they accepted
MSW,
7.

57
“She rocked back and forth
EDts, 76–77.

57
“I used as a small child
THii, 224.

57
At regular intervals—
BP,
150.

57
Wang Amah developed symptoms
—
Ex,
224 sets this in 1900, but I have followed ED, 83, which gives the date as 1903.

57
annual general meeting
—The meeting at Hsuchowfu took place on October 3–7, 1903; James Bear died on October 9.
Minutes of the North Kiangsu Mission,
1903;
OLW,
39.

58
The road wound around
MSW,
114–15.

59
“the tall white Madonna lilies
MSW,
113.

59
“Mr. Lu said
MSW,
61.

59
“Peace covered China
MSW,
69.

60
“Not until justice—
MSW,
50. For the death of Mr. Kung, see
MSW,
60.

60
Longden sisters
—See
MSW,
64;
ED,
87–88, 93.

61
“mental infanticide
Analytical Reader,
by Dr. W. A. P. Martin, Presbyterian Mission, Shanghai, 1897. On the Methodist Mission School, see
MSW.
60;
ED,
77–80, 89. On PB’s Chinese friends, see
ED,
88, 93–95; THi, 96 (where Dottie becomes Dolly).

62
“dreadful shivering hordes
—
Ex,
246. The next two quotes are from
Ex,
247, 249. For contemporary reports of the famine, see
CR
38, January and February, 1907, 57, 121, 124–25, 235, 401.

62
“like a toothless
GE,
81.

62
“the hue of a liver
Sons,
231.

62
“not even her avid reading
This and the next quote are from
ED
ts.

63
“with bits of tin
GE,
128.

63
“the normal sounds
ED,
93.

63
Charles Hancock—
ED,
89–91;
Minutes of the North Kiangsu Mission,
1907, 1908.

64
“Mother is angry
EDts, 15; the next quote from EDts, 39.

64
“that as Christ was head
MSW,
90.

64
It did not occur to him
FA,
140.

64
“and I must say
MSW,
90.

64
“He was penurious
FA,
50.

65
“incredible pinchings
FA,
197.

65
“Absalom’s New Testament
ED,
81.

65
“upstairs with the other white people”
FA
122. The next three quotes are from
FA,
123–24.

66
Kuling American School
MSW,
64,
ED.
86–87.

66
“She said she read
Lewis Carroll’s
ED,
97; for Miss Jewell’s School, see
MSW,
64–70; NSC for interviews with old girls.

66
Shanghai Mercury
—
ED,
74; THi, 87.

67
“Religion I was used to
MSW,
68.

67
“She was expressing
—“The Conflict of Viewpoints,” by PB,
CR,
54, September 1923, 540.

67
Door of Hope—
MSW,
69–70, 73–74;
Ex,
249.

68
“My mother approved it
MSW,
90.

68
“There was nothing
OLW,
46.

69
scathing review—
CR,
October 1912, 591–96; see also
Ex,
268;
OLW,
48.

69
naked statues
—NS, 23.

69
“grave and bitter look”
MSW,
71.

69
“Their faces in repose
GE,
121.

69
“They were always sweating
THi, 56.

70
“It is clearly foretold
MSW,
89. All quotes in this and the next paragraph are from
MSW,
89–90.

C
HAPTER 3

71
“He never troubled himself
FA,
241.

72
“She knew she must seem
ED,
106. My account of PB’s college days is based on
MSW,
91–97;
ED,
105–26; interviews with alumnae in NSC; information from Sue Stephenson; background materials in RCA.

72
“Girls came in groups
MSW,
92.

73
“Externally I became an American
MSW,
93.

75
“No one of them knew
This and the next quote from
FA,
208, 209; see also
CWNG,
32.

75
“the one against whom
This and the next quote are from EDts, 130.

75
Pearl regretted her decision later
PB letter to EW, October 10, 1968.

76
“most of them white-haired
FA,
19–20.

76
“I did all that I could
MSW,
93.

77
“It meant everything to me
PB, letter to EW, April 17, [1917], NSC.

77
“I was trained by Asian Women
SS,
140.

77
“The shock… of the departure
The Hidden Flower,
by PB [1952], Pocket Cardinal, 1954, 172–73.

77
“Of my college days
MSW
, 91, 95, 96.

78
“She never forgot the pity
Ex,
275.

78
“It was a young man’s revolution
FA,
211.