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 Kung District peninsula and in and around the islands: . The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, one of the eight publicly funded tertiary institutions in Hong Kong, is located in Clear Water Bay, Sai Kung. Coincidentally, the Chinese characters "西貢" for "Sai Kung" are also the Vietnamese chu nom characters for the name "Saigon" (now called Ho Chi Minh City), a major city in Vietnam. Kitchee SC play in Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground. Sai Kung District is served by "Sai Kung Magazine", a free-distribution English language monthly magazine and the community website Saikung.com. The magazine covers areas of Sai