Unit 13 Christmas Day in the Morning.ppt

About Pearl S. Buck
A friend of Chinese people
A Literature Nobel Prize Laureate
I should not be truly myself if I did not, in my own wholly unofficial way, speak also of the people of China, whose life has for so many years been my life also, whose life, indeed, must always be a part of my life. The minds of my own country and of China, my foster country, are alike in many ways, but above all, alike in mon love of freedom.
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And today more than ever, this is true, now when China's whole being is engaged in the greatest of all struggles, the struggle for freedom. I have never admired China more than I do now, when I see her uniting as she has never before, against the enemy who threatens her freedom. With this determination for freedom, which is in so profound a sense the essential quality in her nature, I know that she is unconquerable. Freedom - it is today more than ever the most precious human possession. ……
Birthday: June 26, 1892
Parents: Absalom & Caroline Sydenstricker (Southern Presbyterian missionaries, stationed in China )
Came to China: 3 months old
Period of stay in China: 40 years
Residential area: Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province
Pearl and her family
1st husband: John Lossing Buck, a Cornell graduate
Carol (first child): Profoundly retarded
Janice: adopted child
1st Marriage: unhappy but last 18 years
2nd husband: Richard Walsh, a publisher
Pearl’s life in 1920s
In 1921, her mother died.
In 1927, Nanking incident broke out which made her suffer a lot. She spent a terrified day in hiding, and was rescued by the American Bucks sailed to Japan for a year.
Pearl’s works:
East wind, West Wind
The Good Earth
Dragon Seed
The Big Wave
Satan Never Sleeps
Etc.
Pearl and Her Prizes
Pulitzer Prize and Howells Medal for The Good Earth
Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 for The Good Earth
“----for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces"
Pearl’s Special Contributions
In 1942, Pearl an