![]() ![]() “Carie’s emotionally impoverished marriage and exile provided Pearl a tragic example of the price that women pay for the loyalty to codes and customs that oppress them. ![]() Buck: A Cultural Biography (Cambridge University Press, 1996). ![]() Buck’s mother had “accompanied her husband to China, where she was homesick for the remaining 40 years of her life,” writes Peter Conn in Pearl S. However, Buck also observed the suffocating effect of Absalom’s work on his relationship with his family, especially his treatment of Caroline. Buck International’s biography of Buck notes that she “played with Chinese children and visited their homes … she later used this material in her novels.” When Buck was 5 months old, the family moved to China, eventually settling near Nanking they chose to live among the Chinese people rather than in a missionary compound. Buck International, based in Bucks County, Pa., it is helpful to search her upbringing as the daughter of a missionary in China.īuck (1892-1973) was the daughter of Absalom Sydenstricker, a Southern Presbyterian missionary, and Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker. To understand Buck’s work as the author of The Good Earth and founder of the organization that became Pearl S. “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday,” author and activist Pearl S. ![]()
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