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
Chung Sai Yat Po also covered female scholastic achievements in American colleges or professional schools and other women's rights victories. The paper's reports on women's emancipation in China led to discussions on Chinese American emancipation and women's subordinate role in America. These news pieces added to the American women's suffrage movement. The paper's promotion of Christian values and non-partisan political stance created a rivalry between it and "Sai Gai Yat Po" (世界日報), also known as "Chinese World Daily" (1909 – 1969). "Sai Gai Yat Po" was another major Chinese language newspaper in the United States, which followed Confucianism and supported revolutionary forces in China.