Pearl Buck in China (49 page)
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Authors: Hilary Spurling
The Good Earth
(previously
Wang Lung
),
9
,
15
,
41
,
62
,
79
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95
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97
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99
–102,
109
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124
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128
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133
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151
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154
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158
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176
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185
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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
,
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,
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
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148
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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
Cambodia, PB and Walsh in,
215
Carroll, Lewis:
Alice in Wonderland,
66
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 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
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
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108
,
132
funerals,
2
,
59
infanticide,
xi
,
xii
,
3
,
57
,
111
,
112
Japan invades the mainland (1937),
229
PB banned in,
200
,
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,
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
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171
,
180
Chinese Exclusion Acts,
194
,
238
Chinese literature,
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–54,
133
–35,
185
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211
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Chinese Recorder,
10
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100
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101
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165
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185
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,
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Chu, Mr. (cook who married Lu Sadze),
169
civil rights,
8
Coffman (previously Kauffman) family,
39
Conn, Peter:
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography,
257
Cornell University,
92
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144
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147
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150
,
152
,
202
,
207
,
212
Craighill, Marian,
see
Gardiner, Marian Crawford, Joan,
247
Crescent Moon
journal,
174
Cui Zechun,
214
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
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
Foxe, John:
Book of Martyrs,
54
Friday Literary Club (Shanghai School),
66
,
154
Fu family,
57
Fukien,
215
Gandhi, Mahatma M. K.,
xi
,
10
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57
Gardiner, Marian,
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–97,
103
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–10,
111
–12,
113
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–16,
117
,
167
,
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Ginling Women’s College, Nanjing,
152
Goldman, Edward,
255
Good Housekeeping
magazine,
235
Greenbrier County, West Virginia,
39
,
71
,
76
Green Hills Farm, Perkasie, Bucks
