Pearl S. Buck the university's north campus. U.S. President George H. W. Bush toured the Pearl S. Buck House in October 1998. He expressed that he, like millions of other Americans, had gained an appreciation for the Chinese people through Buck's writing. Pearl Buck's papers and literary manuscripts are currently housed at Pearl S. Buck International and the West Virginia & Regional History Center. Several historic sites work to preserve and display artifacts from Pearl's profoundly multicultural life: Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973; also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu; ) was an American
Sai Jinhua crafted her headstone. The life of Sai Jinhua had been adapted into several films, plays, and television series. In works she is portrayed as a heroine of the Chinese nation who saves the country single-handedly during a crisis or as a "yaonie" (), a woman with abnormal powers or a female demon. Ying Hu, author of "Tales of Translation: Composing the New Woman in China, 1899-1918", wrote that Sai Jinhua "is often portrayed in extreme colors" in fiction. Ying Hu wrote that "portraits of Sai Jinhua in the first decade of the twentieth century tended to be ambivalent, if not