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Buck established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation (name changed to Pearl S. Buck International in 1999) [29] to "address poverty and discrimination faced by children in Asian countries." In 1964, she opened the Opportunity Center and Orphanage in South Korea, and later offices were opened in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace is a historic home in Hillsboro, ... (65,000 m 2), of which the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation now owns 13 1 ...
The Pearl S. Buck House, formerly known as Green Hills Farm, is the 67-acre homestead in Bucks County, ... Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation Preservation Fund.
Absalom Andrew Sydenstricker (Chinese: 賽 兆 祥, 1852–1931) was an American Presbyterian missionary to China from 1880 to 1931. [1] [2] The Sydenstricker log house at what later became the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, West Virginia, was Absalom's early childhood home.
[2] [1] PCFA was founded to serve the needs of children left behind by the U.S. military closure. the Pearl S. Buck International foundation estimates there are 52,000 Amerasian scattered throughout the Philippines.
The Exile (New York: John Day, 1936) is a memoir/biography, or work of creative non-fiction, written by Pearl S. Buck about her mother, Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker (1857–1921), describing her life growing up in West Virginia and life in China as the wife of the Presbyterian missionary Absalom Sydenstricker. The book is deeply critical of ...
[38] [39] She received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1983, the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Women's Award in 1988, and the Essence Magazine Award in 1989. [40] [41] [6] Her work was featured in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum. [42]
The Mother is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in New York by the John Day Company in 1934. It follows the life of peasant woman in rural China before the 1911 Revolution, as she struggles to raise her children and cope with poverty, famine, and social oppression.