About this episode

This episode tells the bittersweet story of Pearl S. Buck, an American Nobel laureate who lived in China and faced the challenges of a war-torn world.

Today, we’ll tell the bittersweet story of Pearl S. Buck, the American Nobel laureate who lived in China for the first half of her life at the turn of the last century and how the complications of a war-torn world made it impossible to return to the home she loved and vociferously advocated.

People in this episode

Host: NewsChina

Topics covered

• Pearl S. Buck
• East and West
• Nobel laureate
• China
• war-torn world
• cultural bridge

Keywords

• Pearl S. Buck
• Nobel laureate
• China
• cultural exchange
• history
• war
• East-West relations

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