Pearl Buck in China (51 page)
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Authors: Hilary Spurling
military brutality,
231
ultimate defeat,
229
National Library, Beijing,
201
National Revolutionary Army,
153
,
154
,
156
,
159
,
179
Sixth Army,
160
National Southeastern University, Nanjing,
126
,
175
National Urban League,
211
–12
Neufchâtel, France,
69
New Culture,
135
New York:
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church,
111
,
112
,
117
Stultings’ arrival in,
36
New Yorker,
245
New York Herald Tribune,
195
New Youth
magazine,
89
–90,
91
,
135
,
173
Ni Shi Chung,
101
Niupipo, China,
119
Nobel Prize for literature,
9
,
230
North Kiangsu area,
7
,
15
,
49
,
61
,
143
,
145
,
189
North Kiangsu Presbyterian Mission,
32
,
58
,
142
–43
Osborn, Ruth,
110
–11
Paget Agency,
176
pai-ha
(baihua) (Chinese vernacular),
90
,
134
,
135
,
137
Paris, Sydenstricker family in,
69
Peake, Mervyn:
Titus Groan
trilogy,
263
n
25
Pearl Buck Museum, Zhenjiang,
268
n
79
Pearl Harbor, bombing of (1941),
238
Pearl S. Buck Foundation,
247
–48,
249
Pennsylvania,
249
Philadelphia,
250
Convention Hall,
250
Philadelphia,
249
Pleasant Valley, New York,
118
,
167
Plutarch:
Lives,
54
Pocahontas County, West Virginia,
34
,
71
,
76
Poughkeepsie, New York State,
202
Presbyterian Hospital, New York City,
118
Purple Mountain, Nanjing,
130
,
154
,
180
,
197
Qiu Anxiong:
Staring into Amnesia,
255
racial discrimination,
38
,
131
,
203
,
211
–12,
223
,
229
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, Virginia,
68
,
71
–77,
79
,
110
,
164
Red Cross,
161
Reisner, Bertha,
139
,
141
,
144
,
154
,
253
Reisner, John,
117
,
125
,
137
,
168
,
191
Reisner family,
146
Re-Thinking Missions: A Laymen’s Inquiry after 100 Years,
207
Revised Mandarin New Testament,
69
“rickshaw-coolie school” of writers,
134
,
136
Robinson, Miss (headteacher),
61
Rockefeller family,
114
Rockefeller Foundation,
181
Roebling, Paul,
244
Rogers, Will,
210
Romance of Three Kingdoms, The
(Luo Guanzhong),
53
,
134
Rowe, Sarah,
246
Russia:
Absalom predicts a revolution,
70
Sydenstrickers visit,
69
Russian Revolution,
135
Sai Jinhua,
230
Saturday Evening Post,
237
Second Coming,
47
Second Presbyterian Church, Troy, New York,
149
Shakespeare, William,
54
Shanghai:
American School,
79
Bucks flee to,
161
Chinese and Japanese armies clash around (1931),
201
coming of the railroad (1904),
52
fear of Communist uprising in,
171
French Concession,
164
,
169
,
216
Japanese marines land in,
201
literary scene,
172
nightlife,
172
rich gangsters in,
172
seized by Chiang Kaishek,
160
sex trafficking,
68
,
242
Shanghai High School,
174
Sydenstrickers arrive in (1880),
6
–7
Sydenstrickers flee to (1895),
31
–32
Western warships in the river (1927),
154
Shanxi,
30
Shao Teh-hsing (Shao Dexin; later Shao Chang-hsiang or Zhongxiang), PB’s collaborator,
185
–86,
188
,
279
n
185
Shaw, George Bernard,
213
Shi Nai-an,
203
Sino-Japanese War (1894–5),
15
,
18
–19
Sino-Japanese War (1931),
201
,
239
slavery in China,
xii
,
67
–68,
112
Smedley, Agnes,
174
Smith, Dr.,
114
and cultural veto against China,
193
–94
fascinated by contemporary vernacular fiction,
217
long-term goal,
216
marriage,
216
personality,
216
Red Star over China,
216
reports on famine in northwestern China,
195
and cultural veto against China,
193
–94
on
The Good Earth,
200
long-term goal,
216
marriage,
216
on PB,
196
,
239
–40
personality,
216
Soong, T.V.,
198
Soong Meiling,
172
Southeastern University, Nanjing,
135
–36,
138
,
139
,
155
,
175
Southern Presbyterian Church,
42
,
48
–49
Southern Presbyterian Mission,
6
–7,
20
,
28
,
49
,
81
,
107
Board,
79
,
158
,
162
,
183
,
189
,
199
,
204
,
210
Stewart, Charles,
212
Stulting, Calvin (PB’s uncle),
36
Stulting, Cornelius (PB’s uncle),
34
,
35
,
36
,
37
Stulting, Grace (PB’s cousin),
34
–35,
36
,
38
,
41
Stulting, Hermanus (PB’s grandfather),
16
,
34
,
35
–36,
38
,
39
Stulting, Johanna (PB’s grandmother),
36
–37
Stulting, Mynheer Cornelis Johannis (PB’s greatgrandfather),
36
Stulting family,
6
–7,
34
,
35
,
37
,
38
–39,
168
,
264
n
35
Sun Chuanfang, General,
152
,
154
,
155
,
156
,
164
Sun Yatsen,
81
–82,
83
,
89
,
135
,
152
,
180
,
183
Sydenstricker, Absalom (PB’s father):
appearance,
14
,
15
–16,
31
,
40
,
41
,
144
,
198
arrival in Shanghai (1880),
6
–7
base of Hsuchien,
12
,
13
,
15
–17
beaten up on the road (1895),
19
and “Boxer” rebellion,
29
–30,
31
–32,
33
a Calvinist predestinarian,
47
campaign for North Kiangsu,
12
–13,
15
–16,
18
–20,
47
–49,
142
–43
and Carie’s death,
119
and Carie’s declaration of independence,
18
childhood,
40
–41
in the Chinese Revolution (1911),
78
death,
198
departmental head, Nanjing Theological Seminary,
143
–44
disapproves of Lossing,
141
–42,
165
–66
downfall of,
142
–43,
204
education,
40
family background,
39
–41
and finances,
64
–65,
144
founder of Kuling,
25
,
85
health,
58
,
156
his Chinese followers,
46
–47,
143
,
144
his ideal of womanhood,
40
his patent sermon,
49
in Korea,
162
,
165
Lin Meng’s martyrdom,
30
lives in PB’s house in Nanjing (1920s),
141
–42,
143
marriage to Carie,
6
,
7
,
11
,
28
,
39
,
41
,
122
,
144
and Mr. Ma,
31
,
47
,
56
,
143
,
198
neglect of his children,
21
,
45
,
121
,
145
,
241
New Testament translation,
22
,
43
,
44
,
47
,
65
,
227
other missionaries’ efforts to control him,
45
,
142
–43
and PB’s education,
64
,
68
,
75
PB’s hatred of,
45
,
86
PB’s likeness to and affection for,
42
,
44
,
115
,
144
–45,
226
–27
personality,
10
,
11
,
39
,
40
–41,
45
,
75
,
76
,
80
,
141
–43,
145
–46,
241
and publication of
The Good Earth,
192
relationship with PB,
49
,
65
–66,
144
–45,
226
–27
reluctant return to U.S. (1910),
68
–69,
70
and Rev. James Graham,
12
,
210
–11
rivalry with one-eyed Baptist,
44
a Southern Presbyterian missionary,
2
,
6
–7,
11
–12,
15
–16
in Tsingkiangpu,
7
