![]() ![]() Her love of these stories and her interest in people's lives made Pearl Buck determined at an early age to become a writer of stories. She also read books available to her: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and various works of Shakespeare, Scott, Thackeray, George Eliot, and, especially, Dickens. ![]() Another strong influence on the young girl was her mother, Caroline Sydenstricker, who told stories about America to Pearl. She later called these legends her first literary influence. She spoke Chinese before she spoke English, played with Chinese children, and listened intently to the Buddhist and Taoist legends related to her by her Chinese nurse. Through her writings and humanitarian activities, she often made attempts to reduce the cultures of China and the United States to their lowest common denominator in order to bridge the two worlds in which she lived.Īlthough Pearl Sydenstricker was born in America (1892), she was taken to China by her missionary parents when she was only a few months old. Buck was truly a pioneer in appreciating the People's Republic of China and its emergence as a world power. ![]()
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