Pearl S. Buck Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973; also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu; ) was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel "The Good Earth" was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces". She was the first
Sai Jinhua of Chinese literature at Peking University, conducted an interview with Sai Jinhua. He wrote "The Wife of Zhuangyuan: Sai Jinhua", which he called her true story. Wan Xianchu wrote that the Xia Yan drama "Sai Jinhua" "was a particularly influential work." The writing on the play's title page, "The country is everyone's country; to save the country is everyone's duty", is in Sai Jinhua's own handwriting. Jung Chang wrote that Sai Jinhua was "regarded by many as something of a tragic heroine." The play "The Beauty" () is also about Sai Jinhua. In 2012 Liu Xiaoqing, who was a prominent