He began by fund-raising for her Welcome House
adoption agency, with a lavish charity ball in a style which later became his trademark. He was adept in presenting her as a celebrity surrounded with incongruous...
Occupation
Pearl S. Buck
For a citizen of a rich western country, PSB
had unusual opportunities to observe the hardships of traditional peasant life, rural poverty, war, and racial oppression. In 1949 she founded Welcome House
, an adoption...
Occupation
Pearl S. Buck
She continued to write, and occasionally to attend meetings of Welcome House
and her Foundation
. When President Nixon
visited China in February 1972 she thought of either accompanying or following him, but found to...
Textual Production
Pearl S. Buck
PSB
published The Hidden Flower, a novel about an interracial love affair and the baby who accidentally results from it, to boost and publicize Buck's Welcome House
Adoption Agency.
Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.