Follow up
- Penny Colman
- Sep 25, 2024
- 2 min read
Three years ago—August 8, 2021—we went to Danby, Vermont, where Pearl Buck had lived and helped restore the small town from 1969 until her death in 1973.
The unusual marker for a historic woman—large and two-sided—was erected by the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation 2000.
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A friend from West Virginia who reads my blog asked me to give a "shout-out" for the The Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Museum in Hillsboro, West Virginia, that is on my to-visit list. (The images are from the internet.)
I visited China in 1980, eight years after Pearl Buck applied for a visa to return. (The same year, 1972, that President Richard Nixon went to China, beginning the process of establishing relationships between China and the U.S.)
Pearl Buck's request was denied. Since the Communist victory in 1929, she had been critical of communism. Her biographer Peter Conn wrote: "She had broadcast her anti-communism in her essays and novels, attacking internal Communist repression in such books as The Daughters of Madame Liang (1969).
Pearl Buck never returned to China, but, in time, her reputation was "rehabilitated."
(Below are links to two online articles about the "rehabilitation" of Pearl Buck in China.)
Today there are landmarks in China to Pearl Buck, including left image: The former residence of Pearl S. Buck, now the Pearl S. Buck Museum in Zhenjiang. It was declared a cultural landmark in 1992, and restored with funds from both the Chinese and American governments. Right image: Front of the Pearl S. Buck Museum
"The Rehabilitation of Pearl Buck by Peter Conn, 2021, Asia Blog, Asia Society
Pearl Buck's Rehabilitation in China by Beatrice Camp, Foreign Affairs Journal July-August 2022
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