Pearl Buck-Popular Expert on China,1931-1949

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——— (1949b) Preface to The Good Earth. New York: John Wiley.

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——— (1948a) "The people will be free." Asia 2 (December): 6-7.

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——— (1948b) "Our dangerous myths about China." New York Times Magazine (23 October): 9, 65-68, 70-71.

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——— (1948c) "A note on the price of rice (and power)." United Nations World 2 (September): 17.

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——— (1948d) "The land and the people of China" (speech), pp. 1-9 in Harris (1970).

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——— (1947) "Americans in distress." United Nations World I (April): 26-29.

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——— (1946) "We need, most of all, the world view." New York Times Magazine (28 April): 11, 55, 57-58.

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——— ( 1945c) "Tell the people." Asia 45 (January): 49-71.

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——— (1944b) "An appeal to California." Asia 44 (January): 21-23.

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——— ( 1943c) "A warning about China." Life 14 (10 May): 53-54, 56.

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——— (1943d) "Where the Chinese people stand," pp. 200-215 in Harris (1970).

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——— (circa 1942-1945) "China" (talk to American soldiers during World War II), pp. 151-199 in Harris ( 1970).

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———— (1938a) "Arms for China's democracy." Asia 38 (September): 534-535.

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——— (1938c) "Asia bookshelf' (review of Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China). Asia 38 (March): 202-203.

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——— (1938d) "An open letter to the Chinese people." Asia 38 (February): 126-128.

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——— (1938e) "Mind of the militarist." Asia 38 (January): 9-10.

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——— (1937) "Western weapons in the hands of the reckless east ." Asia 37 (October): 672-673. [Condensed in Reader's Digest 31 (November 1937 ): 6-7.]

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——— (1936a) The Exile. New York: John Day.

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———— (1936b) Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul. New York: John Day. ——— (1935a) "Rulers of China." Asia 35 (February): 71-75.

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——— (1935b) "The young Chinese discover China" (speech), pp. 51-56 in Harris (1970).

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——— (1935c) A House Divided. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock.

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——— (1934) "The creative spirit in modem China-II." Asia 34 (October): 601-605.

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——— (1933a) "China and the west" ( speech before the American Academy of Political Science, Philadelphia, 8 April), pp. 16-50 in Harris (1970).

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——— (1933b) "Interpretation of China to the west" (talk at Columbia University, 13 March), pp. 10-15 in Harris (1970).

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——— (1923) "In China, too." Atlantic Monthly 131 (January): 68-72.

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China Weekly Review [Shanghai] (1933 ) "Pearl Buck and the Presbyterian fundamentalists." Vol. 64 (22 April): 282-283.

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——— (1931) "The story of Wang Lung, typical farmer." Vol. 57 (6 June): 3.

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Ching Fook-Tan [CHEN FU-TIAN] (1933) Review of Sons. Chinese Social and Political Sci. Rev. (Beijing) 16 (January): 693-696.

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——— [ed.] (1970) China As I See It. New York: John Day.

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Hoe Yung-Chi [ HE Yong-Ji ] (1931) Review of The Good Earth. China Critic (Shanghai) 4 (2 July): 639.

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Hu Feng ( 1935) " 'Dadi' li di Zhongguo" [China in "The Good Earth"] , pp. 297-319 in his Wenyi bitan [Essays on literature]. Shanghai : Shenghuo, 1937.

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HU Zhong-Zhi (1933) Introduction to his translation of The Good Earth (Dadi). Shanghai: Kaiming.

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Hui AN ( 1973) "Jianli dongxifang duqiao di Sai Zhen-zhu" [Pearl Buck-builder of a bridge between east and west]. Dangdai wenyi [Contemporary literature] (Hongkong) number 89 (April): 16-20.

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Kiang Kang-Hu [ Jiang Kang-Hu ] (1934) On Chinese Studies. Shanghai : Commercial Press. (contains his 1933 essays on The Good Earth)

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Krebs, A. (1973) Pearl Buck obituary. New York Times (7 March): 1, 40.

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Lash, J.P. (1971) Eleanor and Franklin. New York: Norton.

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Leyda, J. (1972) Dianying, Electric Shadows: An Account of Films and Film Audiences in China. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

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Lianhe bao [Taibei] (1973) 7 March: 3.

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Ming bao [Hong Kong] (1973) 11 March: 7.

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New York Times (1972) 29 October: 1, 7.

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——— (1933) 16 January: 14; 12, 13, 15, 17-19 April; 3, 22, 28 May.

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New York Times Book Review (1931) Review of The Good Earth. 15 March: 6.

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Snow, H.F. (1973) Pearl Buck obituary. New Republic 168 (24 March): 28-29.

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Steele, A.T. (1966) The American People and China. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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Time (1973) "Earth to Earth." 101 (19 March): 81.

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——— (1931) Review of The Good Earth. 17 (16 March): 71.

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Whang, Paul K. [ Wang Zhong-Fang ] (1934) "Will 'The Good Earth' be filmed in China?" China Weekly Rev. (Shanghai) 67 (17 February): 450.

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Woolf, S.J. (1932) "Pearl Buck talks of her life in China." New York Times Magazine (14 August): 7.

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Ya Ukey, G.S. (1944) The Exile's Daughter. A Biography of Pearl S. Buck . New York: Coward-McCann.

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Yeh Kung-Chao [ YE Gong-Zhao ] (1931) Review of The Good Earth. Chinese Social and Pol. Sci. Rev. (Beijing) 15 (October): 448-453.

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YI Xian [pseudonym?] (1932) Introduction to his translation of The Good Earth . Dongfang zazhi [Eastern miscellany] ( Shanghai) 29 (1 January): 75.

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Yin Yun-Peng (1971) "Reai Zhongguo di Sai Zhen-zhu nu-shi" [Miss Pearl Buck-warm friend of China], pp. 125-133 in his Zhongguo ren di guanghui [The brilliance of the Chinese]. Taibei: Zhiwen.