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 cultivated discussions on community economic and social development. "Chung Sai Yat Po" was one of the longest running and most popular Chinese language daily newspapers in the United States. In 1899, Ng Poon Chew (March 14, 1866 - March 13, 1931), a well-known and respected Chinese Presbyterian minister, started "Hua Mei Sun Po" (華美新報), also known as "The Chinese American Newspaper", a Chinese language weekly newspaper in Los Angeles. He moved the paper to San Francisco in 1900 and renamed it "Chung Sai Yat Po". The paper then shifted from a weekly publication to a daily publication. Ng regarded "Chung