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
Zhenzhu Yabgu Zhenzhu Yabgu Zhenzhu Yabgu was a claimant to throne of Western Turkic Khaganate. He was Yukuk Shad's son and Illig Khagan's grandson. He was known as El Bi Tardu Shad () during his father's reign. In 653, he succeeded his father in Kunduz. Starting from then, he claimed to be ruler of Western Turks in opposition to Ashina Helu. Later Zhenzhu contacted Tang to receive soldiers and requested to be created a qaghan in 655. Yuan Lichen (元礼臣) was ordered by Gaozong to visit Zhenzhu in 8 November 656 to create him khagan, but he was stopped by Helu's soldiers