Pearl Buck in China (50 page)
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Authors: Hilary Spurling
County, Pennsylvania,
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–22,
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,
236
,
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,
247
–48,
252
Green Mountains, Vermont,
250
Guangzhou,
215
Communist uprising suppressed,
171
Nationalist headquarters,
152
PB’s trip with Lossing,
192
Guling Museum:
Story of Old Villas
exhibition (2007),
263
n
25
see also
Kuling
Guthrie, Mrs. J. M.,
211
Hancock, Charles,
63
Hangzhou, fall of,
155
Harbin, Manchuria,
69
Harlem, New York: exhibition of black painters,
211
,
223
Harper’s Magazine,
206
Harris, Theodore (Fred L Hair):
charms PB,
247
–48
dancing master,
247
PB lives in Vermont with,
249
–50
PB’s companion in old age,
175
PB’s official biography ghostwritten by,
175
,
249
,
256
and PB’s will,
247
–48
Pearl S. Buck: A Biography,
249
and the Pearl S. Buck Foundation,
247
–48
personality,
247
,
249
Hillsboro, West Virginia,
11
,
34
–35,
36
,
41
,
76
Hobart, Alice Tisdale,
126
–27,
134
Holy Rollers,
67
Honan, China,
29
Honan-Shandung Education Association,
100
,
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n
100
Howells medal,
193
Hsieh Ping-hsin,
173
Hsu, Mrs., a Christian convert,
107
,
110
Hsu, Pei-yun,
108
Hsu family,
108
Huai River,
198
Hugo, Victor,
90
Hunan,
192
Hu Shi,
90
–91,
92
,
95
,
123
,
137
,
269
n
92
Hu Zhongchi,
198
Hwang, Mr.,
101
Hwei River,
93
Ibsen, Henrik:
The Doll’s House,
91
,
123
India, PB and Walsh in,
215
Institute of Pacific Relations (U.S.),
181
Ithaca, New York,
147
,
148
,
164
,
207
Jane Eyre
(Charlotte Brontë),
66
Japan:
abandoned mixed-race children,
241
invasion of the Chinese mainland (1937),
229
Japanese marines land in Shanghai,
201
systematic seizure of territory in Manchuria,
201
Jewell, Eugenia,
67
Jewell, Martha,
67
also see
Miss Jewell’s school
Jiang Kanghu, Professor,
230
John Day Publishing Company,
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,
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,
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,
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Johnstone, Dr. Edward,
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Joyce, James,
195
Junkin, Nettie du Bose,
228
Kafka, Franz,
195
Kang Liao, Professor,
186
,
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,
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,
230
Kansas,
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–39
Kansas City Star,
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Kelsey, Dean,
144
Kennedy, Robert,
247
Kiangsu province,
186
Kiukang (Jiujiang),
58
Kobe, Japan,
162
Kuling (now Guling),
25
,
58
–59,
85
–86,
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,
93
,
95
,
116
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127
,
143
,
144
,
153
,
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,
222
,
228
,
263
n
25
see also
Guling Museum
Kuling American School,
66
Kuling Mountain Company,
25
,
263
n
25
Kung, Mr. (tutor),
49
–51,
53
,
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,
55
,
59
–60,
90
,
106
Kuo Mo-jou,
173
Laos, PB and Walsh in,
215
Lao She: “Rickshaw Boy,”
185
Laura L. Messenger Memorial Prize,
150
,
152
,
231
Silver and Prices,
213
Lewisburg, West Virginia,
39
Lexington, Virginia,
38
Liang Shi-chiu, Prof.,
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,
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n
175
Li family,
107
Lindbergh, Charles,
198
My Country and My People,
216
,
225
“Little Meatball” (son of Lu Sadze),
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,
133
Lloyd, David,
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,
187
,
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,
237
,
244
London, Sydenstrickers in,
69
Longden sisters,
60
Long Moxiang,
189
Lossing,
see
Buck, John Lossing Lotus Lake, Nanjing,
130
Luce, Henry,
244
her pregnancies,
132
–33
joins the Bucks in Japan,
163
model for
The Mother,
190
personality,
133
,
163
runs Buck household,
133
,
169
saves the lives of the Buck family,
157
–58,
160
second marriage,
169
and the Thomsons,
133
Lushan,
see
Kuling
Ah Q and Other Stories,
216
–17
McAfee, Dr. Cleland Boyd,
204
,
210
,
211
McCarthy, Senator Joseph,
244
Machen, Dr. J. Gresham,
210
McKinley, President William,
37
,
51
Macon, Randolph,
212
Madras Mail,
212
Manchester Guardian,
216
Manchu Dynasty,
51
–52,
61
,
78
,
248
distributes
New Youth,
135
and Edgar Snow,
195
endorses terror tactics,
160
and
Shui Hu Chuan,
189
Ma Pangbo (Mr. Ma),
31
,
47
,
56
,
143
,
198
Martin, Dr. W. A. P.,
61
,
263
n
27
Matisse, Henri,
9
–10
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota,
147
Melville, Herman:
Moby Dick,
161
Mencius,
50
Messenger prize,
see
Laura L. Messenger Memorial Prize
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
202
Millbank Memorial Fund, New York,
190
Miss Jewell’s School, Shanghai,
66
–68,
154
mixed-race children, abandoned,
8
,
241
Morgenthau, Henry,
220
Moscow, Sydenstricker family in,
69
Mount Lu/Lushan,
58
,
128
,
222
,
250
Murray Hill Hotel, Park Avenue, New York,
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Nagasaki, Japan,
162
Nanchang,
154
battle rages,
156
–57
the Bucks as the first white family to return,
177
the Bucks’ house,
125
–27,
140
,
177
–78
the Bucks leave for Beijing,
201
Caroline Grace born in,
117
–18
Chiang Kaishek establishes his government there,
177
contempt for the white community,
178
described,
129
–30,
177
,
179
execution of student agitators,
155
famine (1920–21),
128
overrun by soldiers of Chang Chung Chang,
155
–56
PB’s final departure from,
218
PB’s house guests,
125
,
126
–27
PB writes the story of her mother’s life in,
121
protests on inaction against Japanese (1931),
201
rail link disrupted by shells,
201
shooting of foreigners,
157
–59
Westerners leave,
160
–61
Westerners warned to leave,
154
,
156
Nanjing Incident (1927),
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–61,
185
,
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n
157
Nanjing Theological Seminary,
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,
227
,
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n
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Nanjing University,
95
College of Agriculture and Forestry,
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,
125
,
137
–39,
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,
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,
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,
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–14
conference in Lossing’s honor (2008),
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Language School,
125
,
126
,
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PB teaches English courses,
126
rumours of plot to burn it down,
189
Nanxuzhou, Anhui,
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,
97
,
186
,
196
the Bucks leave,
117
,
123
described,
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–94,
98
,
104
,
110
–11
farming people,
100
girls’ school,
107
,
110
,
113
gun battles and martial law,
102
local accent,
98
Lossing based in,
92
Lossing’s statistical surveys,
98
–99
Lossing starts a farmer’s club,
100
–101
overrun by soldiers,
101
–2
PB and Lossing settle in,
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–95
railway,
95
Nanxuzhou Agricultural Experiment Station,
95
Nationalist Party (Kuomintang),
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,
178
and Communists,
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,
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–55,
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