56-571: The Promise may refer to: Film, television, and radio [ edit ] Film [ edit ] The Promise (1917 film) , a silent film starring Paul Willis The Promise (1952 film) , a British film centring on the reform of a prisoner through the Bible The Promise (1969 film) , a film starring Ian McKellen The Promise (1979 film) , an American romantic drama film The Promise (1995 film) (German: Das Versprechen ),
112-457: A "small, white, clean Presbyterian world of my parents", and the other the "big, loving merry not-too-clean Chinese world", and there was no communication between them. The Boxer Uprising (1899–1901) greatly affected the family; their Chinese friends deserted them, and Western visitors decreased. Her father, convinced that no Chinese could wish him harm, stayed behind as the rest of the family went to Shanghai for safety. A few years later, Buck
168-480: A 10 to 25 year period with an agreement that afterwards a plebiscite could be held based on a negotiated settlement. Buck’s ties with her native state remained strong. In the title essay of My Mother’s House, a small book written by Buck and others to help raise funds for the Birthplace Museum, she paid tribute to the house her mother had cherished while living far away: ‘‘For me it was a living heart in
224-720: A 2001 album by Forgotten Tales The Promise , a 2010 album by Marc Roberts The Promise , a 1993 album by Ringworm The Promise: A Celebration of Christ's Birth , a 1991 album by Michael Card Songs [ edit ] "The Promise" (Arcadia song) , 1986 "The Promise" (Chris Cornell song) , 2017 "The Promise" (Girls Aloud song) , 2008 "The Promise" (In This Moment song) , 2010 "The Promise" (When in Rome song) , 1988 "The Promise", by Bruce Springsteen from 18 Tracks "The Promise", by Essence "The Promise", by Framing Hanley from A Promise to Burn "The Promise", by Holy Knights from A Gate Through
280-512: A 2005 short-story collection by Ted Dekker Nonfiction [ edit ] The Promise: God's Purpose and Plan for When Life Hurts , a 2008 book by Jonathan Morris The Promise: President Obama, Year One , a 2010 book by Jonathan Alter Theatre [ edit ] The Promise (musical) , an annual outdoor passion play in Texas, US The Promise (1965 play) , a play by Aleksei Nikolaevich Arbuzov The Promise (2010 play) ,
336-413: A 2021 novel by Damon Galgut The Promise (Kratochvil novel) , a 2009 novel by Jiří Kratochvil The Promise (Potok novel) , a 1969 novel by Chaim Potok Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise , a 2012 graphic novel by Gene Yang The Promise , a 1943 novel by Pearl S. Buck The Promise , a 1989 novel by Monica Hughes The Promise , a 1978 novel by Danielle Steel The Promise ,
392-531: A Chinese scholar named Mr. Kung. She also read voraciously, especially, in spite of her father's disapproval, the novels of Charles Dickens , which she later said she read through once a year for the rest of her life. In 1911, Buck left China to attend Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia , where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1914 and was a member of Kappa Delta sorority. Although Buck had not intended to return to China, much less become
448-405: A Filipino primetime soap opera series The Promise (2011 TV serial) , a UK series directed by Peter Kosminsky The Promise (2016 TV series) , a Korean daily drama series aired by KBS "The Promise" ( Arrow ) , an episode of Arrow "The Promise" ( Cold Case ) , an episode of Cold Case "The Promise" ( Justified ) , an episode of Justified "The Promise", a 1955 installment of
504-550: A film directed by Margarethe von Trotta La Promesse (French, The Promise ), a 1996 film by the Dardenne brothers The Promise (1999 film) , a made-for-television film starring Tracy Nelson The Promise (2005 film) , a Chinese fantasy film The Promise (2007 film) , a Filipino version of Wuthering Heights The Promise (2008 film) , an Egyptian film starring Asser Yassin The Promise (2016 film) ,
560-652: A foundation controlled by Harris. Pearl S. Buck died of lung cancer on March 6, 1973, in Danby, Vermont . She was interred on Green Hills Farm in Perkasie, Pennsylvania . She designed her own tombstone. Her name was not inscribed in English on her tombstone. Instead, the grave marker is inscribed with the Chinese characters 賽珍珠 ( pinyin : Sai Zhenzhu ) representing the name Pearl Sydenstricker; specifically, Sai
616-523: A historical drama film about the Armenian Genocide, starring Oscar Isaac and Charlotte Le Bon The Promise (2017 film) , a Thai horror film Killing for Love (film) , also known as The Promise , a 2016 documentary about Jens Söring and Elizabeth Haysom Television and radio [ edit ] Kasamh Se , also known as The Promise ; a 2006 Indian soap opera Pangako Sa 'Yo (International broadcast title: The Promise ),
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#1732797937021672-591: A missionary, she quickly applied to the Presbyterian Board when her father wrote that her mother was seriously ill. In 1914, Buck returned to China. She married an agricultural economist missionary, John Lossing Buck , on May 13, 1917, and they moved to Suzhou, Anhui Province, a small town on the Huai River (not to be confused with the better-known Suzhou in Jiangsu Province ). This
728-613: A play by Ben Brown Music [ edit ] Bands [ edit ] The Promise (American band) , a hardcore punk band formerly signed to Deathwish Inc. Albums [ edit ] The Promise (Bif Naked album) , 2009 The Promise (Bruce Springsteen album) , 2010 2-CD compilation album The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story , 2010 3-CD, 3-DVD or Blu-ray box set by Bruce Springsteen The Promise (Deborah Cox album) , 2008 The Promise (Earth, Wind & Fire album) , 2003 The Promise (Fly to
784-483: A relationship that would result in marriage and many years of professional teamwork. Back in Nanking, Buck retreated every morning to the attic of her university house, and within the year, completed the manuscript for The Good Earth . She was involved in the charity relief campaign for the victims of the 1931 China floods , writing a series of short stories describing the plight of refugees, which were broadcast on
840-651: A short time, during which Pearl Buck earned a master's degree from Cornell University . In 1925, the Bucks adopted a child named Janice (later surnamed Walsh). That autumn, they returned to China. The tragedies and dislocations that Buck suffered in the 1920s reached a climax in March 1927, during the " Nanking Incident ". In a confused battle involving elements of Chiang Kai-shek 's Nationalist troops , Communist forces, and assorted warlords, several Westerners were murdered. Since her father Absalom insisted, as he had in 1900 in
896-475: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Promise (1917 film) The Promise is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Jay Hunt and starring Harold Lockwood , May Allison and Lester Cuneo . This article about a silent drama film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pearl S. Buck Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973)
952-598: Is the region she describes in her books The Good Earth and Sons . From 1920 to 1933, the Bucks made their home in Nanjing, on the campus of the University of Nanking , where they both had teaching positions. She taught English literature at this private, church-run university, and also at Ginling College and at the National Central University . In 1920, the Bucks had a daughter, Carol, who
1008-441: Is the sound of the first syllable of her last name (Chinese last names come first), and Zhenzhu is the Chinese word for pearl. Buck left behind three contradictory wills, resulting in a three-way legal dispute over her estate between her financial advisor Theodore Harris, the nonprofit Pearl Buck Foundation, and her seven adopted children. After a six-year battle, the dispute was settled in her children's favor after both Harris and
1064-513: Is to publicize and eliminate injustices and prejudices suffered by children, who, because of their birth, are not permitted to enjoy the educational, social, economic and civil privileges normally accorded to children." In 1960, after a long decline in health that included a series of strokes , Buck's husband Richard Walsh died. She renewed a warm relationship with William Ernest Hocking , who died in 1966. Buck then withdrew from many of her old friends and quarreled with others. In 1962 Buck asked
1120-513: The Hallmark Hall of Fame "The Promise" ( The Amazing World of Gumball ) an episode of The Amazing World of Gumball "The Promise" ( The Larry Sanders Show ) , an episode of The Larry Sanders Show The Promise FM , the main network of Northern Christian Radio The Promise (podcast) , a podcast produced by Nashville Public Radio Literature [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] The Promise (Galgut novel) ,
1176-698: The Communist Revolution in 1949, Buck was repeatedly refused all attempts to return to her beloved China. Her 1962 novel Satan Never Sleeps described the Communist tyranny in China. During the Cultural Revolution , Buck, as a preeminent American writer of Chinese village life, was denounced as an "American cultural imperialist ". Buck was "heartbroken" when she was prevented from visiting China with Richard Nixon in 1972. In 1938
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#17327979370211232-553: The Nobel Prize committee in awarding the prize said: By awarding this year's Prize to Pearl Buck for the notable works which pave the way to a human sympathy passing over widely separated racial boundaries and for the studies of human ideals which are a great and living art of portraiture, the Swedish Academy feels that it acts in harmony and accord with the aim of Alfred Nobel's dreams for the future. In her speech to
1288-770: The United States Postal Service In 1999 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project . Buck's former residence at Nanjing University is now the Pearl S. Buck Memorial House or in Mandarin 賽珍珠紀念館 ( pinyin : Sai Zhenzhu Jinianguan ) along the West Wall of the university's north campus. Pearl Buck's papers and literary manuscripts are currently housed at Pearl S. Buck International and
1344-415: The soundtrack of the 1993 film The Piano See also [ edit ] A Promise (disambiguation) Promise (disambiguation) I Promise (disambiguation) Promises, Promises (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Promise . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
1400-606: The Academy, Buck took as her topic "The Chinese Novel". She explained, "I am an American by birth and by ancestry", but "my earliest knowledge of story, of how to tell and write stories, came to me in China." After an extensive discussion of classic Chinese novels, especially Romance of the Three Kingdoms , All Men Are Brothers , and Dream of the Red Chamber , she concluded that in China "the novelist did not have
1456-432: The Chinese novelist, she concluded, "I have been taught to want to write for these people. If they are reading their magazines by the million, then I want my stories there rather than in magazines read only by a few." Buck was committed to a range of issues that were largely ignored by her generation. Many of her life experiences and political views are described in her novels, short stories, fiction, children's stories, and
1512-775: The Israeli Government for clemency for Adolf Eichmann , the Nazi war criminal who was complicit in the deaths of five million Jews during World War II, as she and others believed that carrying out capital punishment against Eichmann could be seen as an act of vengeance, especially since the war had ended. During a December 17, 1962 visit to the Kennedy White House, Buck urged the Kennedy administration to help resolve People's Republic of China-Taiwan relations by supporting de facto independence of Taiwan for
1568-526: The Past "The Promise", by Johnny Clegg from Heat, Dust and Dreams "The Promise", by Kris Kristofferson from A Moment of Forever "The Promise", by Reks from The Greatest X "The Promise", by Tony Moran "The Promise", by Tracy Chapman from New Beginning "The Promise", by Within Temptation from Mother Earth "The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise", by Michael Nyman for
1624-482: The Pearl Buck Foundation dropped their claims (the latter in return for a financial settlement from Buck's children). Many contemporary reviewers praised Buck's "beautiful prose", even though her "style is apt to degenerate into over-repetition and confusion". Robert Benchley wrote a parody of The Good Earth that emphasised these qualities. Peter Conn, in his biography of Buck, argues that despite
1680-551: The Pearl S. Buck Foundation. Harris, who was given a lifetime salary as head of the foundation, created a scandal for Buck when he was accused of mismanaging the foundation, diverting large amounts of the foundation's funds for his friends' and his own personal expenses, and treating staff poorly. Buck defended Harris, stating that he was "very brilliant, very high strung and artistic." Before her death, Buck signed over her foreign royalties and her personal possessions to Creativity Inc.,
1736-496: 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. In the mid-1960s, Buck increasingly came under the influence of Theodore Harris, a former dance instructor, who became her confidant, co-author, and financial advisor. She soon depended on him for all her daily routines, and placed him in control of Welcome House and
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1848-701: The United States for Pearl's birth. When Pearl was five months old, the family returned to China, living first in Huai'an and then in 1896 moving to Zhenjiang , which was then known as Chingkiang in the Chinese postal romanization system, near the major city of Nanjing . In summer, she and her family spent time in Kuling . Her father built a stone villa in Kuling in 1897, and lived there until his death in 1931. It
1904-688: The United States in 1929 to find long-term care for Carol, eventually placing her in the Vineland Training School in New Jersey. Buck served on the Board of Trustees for the school, at which Carol lived for the rest of her life and where she eventually died in 1992 at age 72. While Buck was in the United States, Richard J. Walsh, editor at John Day publishers in New York, accepted her novel East Wind: West Wind . She and Walsh began
1960-743: The United States in 1935, she married the publisher Richard J. Walsh and continued writing prolifically. She became an activist and prominent advocate of the rights of women and racial equality , and wrote widely on Chinese and Asian cultures , becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoption . Originally named Comfort, Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia , to Caroline Maude (Stulting) (1857–1921) and Absalom Sydenstricker , of Dutch and German descent respectively. Her parents, Southern Presbyterian missionaries , were married on July 8, 1880 and moved to China shortly thereafter, but returned to
2016-458: The accolades awarded to her, Buck's contribution to literature has been mostly forgotten or deliberately ignored by America's cultural gatekeepers. Kang Liao argues that Buck played a "pioneering role in demythologizing China and the Chinese people in the American mind". Phyllis Bentley , in an overview of Buck's work published in 1935, was altogether impressed: "But we may say at least that for
2072-730: The adoption agency to help with costs. Buck established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation (name changed to Pearl S. Buck International in 1999) to "address poverty and discrimination faced by children in Asian countries." In 1964, she opened the Opportunity Center and Orphanage in South Korea, and later offices were opened in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam. When establishing Opportunity House, Buck said, "The purpose ...
2128-516: The biographies of her parents entitled Fighting Angel (on Absalom) and The Exile (on Carrie). She wrote on diverse subjects, including women's rights , Asian cultures, immigration, adoption, missionary work, war, the atomic bomb ( Command the Morning ), and violence. Long before it was considered fashionable or politically safe to do so, Buck challenged the American public by raising consciousness on topics such as racism, sex discrimination and
2184-504: The country I knew was my own but which was strange to me until I returned to the house where I was born. In the late 1960s, Buck toured West Virginia to raise money to preserve her family farm in Hillsboro, West Virginia . Today the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace is a historic house museum and cultural center. She hoped the house would "belong to everyone who cares to go there," and serve as a "gateway to new thoughts and dreams and ways of life." Former U.S. President George H. W. Bush toured
2240-708: The face of the Boxers, the family decided to stay in Nanjing until the battle reached the city. When violence broke out, a poor Chinese family invited them to hide in their hut while the family house was looted. The family spent a day terrified and in hiding, after which they were rescued by American gunboats. They traveled to Shanghai and then sailed to Japan, where they stayed for a year, after which they moved back to Nanjing. Buck later said that this year in Japan showed her that not all Japanese were militarists. When she returned from Japan in late 1927, Buck devoted herself in earnest to
2296-448: The first time as an adult, which she had been forbidden to read growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution . Min said Buck portrayed the Chinese peasants "with such love, affection and humanity" and it inspired Min's novel Pearl of China (2010), a fictional biography about Buck. In 1973, Buck was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame . Buck was honored in 1983 with a 5¢ Great Americans series postage stamp issued by
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2352-847: The foster home, however, it quickly became apparent that it couldn't accommodate them all and adoptive homes were needed. Welcome Home was turned into the first international, interracial adoption agency, and Buck began actively promoting the adoption of mixed-race children to the American public. In an effort to overcome the longstanding public view that such children were inferior and undesirable, Buck claimed in interviews and speeches that "hybrid" children of interracial backgrounds were actually genetically superior to other children in terms of intelligence and health. She and her husband Richard then adopted two mixed-race daughters from overseas themselves: an Afro-German girl in 1951 and an Afro-Japanese girl in 1957, giving her eight children in total. In 1967 she turned over most of her earnings—more than $ 7 million— to
2408-517: The interest of her chosen material, the sustained high level of her technical skill, and the frequent universality of her conceptions, Mrs. Buck is entitled to take rank as a considerable artist. To read her novels is to gain not merely knowledge of China but wisdom about life." These works aroused considerable popular sympathy for China, and helped foment a more critical view of Japan and its aggression. Chinese-American author Anchee Min said she "broke down and sobbed" after reading The Good Earth for
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2520-503: The plight of Asian war children . Buck combined the careers of wife, mother, author, editor, international spokesperson, and political activist. Buck became well-known as an advocate for civil rights, women’s rights, and the disability rights . In 1949, after finding that existing adoption services considered Asian and mixed-race children unadoptable, Buck founded the first permanent foster home for US-born mixed-race children of Asian descent, naming it The Welcome Home. The foster home
2576-860: The radio in the United States and later published in her collected volume The First Wife and Other Stories . When her husband took the family to Ithaca, New York the following year, Buck accepted an invitation to address a luncheon of Presbyterian women at the Hotel Astor in New York City. Her talk was titled "Is There a Case for the Foreign Missionary?" and her answer was a barely qualified "no". She told her American audience that she welcomed Chinese to share her Christian faith, but argued that China did not need an institutional church dominated by missionaries who were too often ignorant of China and arrogant in their attempts to control it. When
2632-947: The talk was published in Harper's Magazine , the scandalized reaction led Buck to resign her position with the Presbyterian Board. In 1934, Buck left China, believing she would return, while her husband remained. Buck divorced her husband in Reno, Nevada on June 11, 1935, and she married Richard Walsh that same day. He reportedly offered her advice and affection which, her biographer concludes, "helped make Pearl's prodigious activity possible". The couple moved with Janice to Green Hills Farm in Bucks County , Pennsylvania , which they quickly set about filling with adopted children. Two sons were brought home as infants in 1936 and followed by another son and daughter in 1937. Following
2688-480: The task of creating art but of speaking to the people." Her own ambition, she continued, had not been trained toward "the beauty of letters or the grace of art." In China, the task of the novelist differed from the Western artist: "To farmers he must talk of their land, and to old men he must speak of peace, and to old women he must tell of their children, and to young men and women he must speak of each other." And like
2744-532: The vocation of writing. Friendly relations with prominent Chinese writers of the time, such as Xu Zhimo and Lin Yutang , encouraged her to think of herself as a professional writer. She wanted to fulfill the ambitions denied to her mother, but she also needed money to support herself if she left her marriage, which had become increasingly lonely. Since the mission board could not provide it, she also needed money for Carol's specialized care. Buck traveled once more to
2800-545: The young girl decided to become a writer. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, then returned to China. From 1914 to 1932, after marrying John Lossing Buck , she served as a Presbyterian missionary, but she came to doubt the need for foreign missions. Her views became controversial during the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy , leading to her resignation. After returning to
2856-415: Was afflicted with phenylketonuria that left her severely developmentally disabled . Buck had to have a hysterectomy due to complications of Carol's birth, leaving her unable to have more biological children. In 1921, Buck's mother died of a tropical disease, sprue , and shortly afterward her father moved in. In 1924, they left China for John Buck's year of sabbatical and returned to the United States for
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#17327979370212912-550: Was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth , the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China " and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents. Buck
2968-589: Was born in West Virginia, but in October 1892, her parents took their 4-month-old baby to China. As the daughter of missionaries and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang , with her parents, and in Nanjing , with her first husband. She and her parents spent their summers in a villa in Kuling , Mount Lu , Jiujiang , and it was during this annual pilgrimage that
3024-542: Was during this annual summer pilgrimage in Kuling that the young girl decided to become a writer. Of her siblings who survived into adulthood, Edgar Sydenstricker had a distinguished career with the U.S. Public Health Service and later the Milbank Memorial Fund , and Grace Sydenstricker Yaukey (1899–1994) wrote young adult books and books about Asia under the pen name Cornelia Spencer. Pearl recalled in her memoir that she lived in "several worlds", one
3080-536: Was enrolled in Miss Jewell's School in Shanghai, and was dismayed at the racist attitudes there of other students, few of whom could speak any Chinese. Both of her parents felt strongly that Chinese were their equals; they forbade the use of the word heathen , and she was raised in a bilingual environment: tutored in English by her mother, in the local dialect by her Chinese playmates, and in classical Chinese by
3136-593: Was located in a 16-room farmhouse in Pennsylvania next door to Buck's own home, Green Hill Farm, and Buck was actively involved in everything from planning the children's diets to buying their clothing. Among the home's Board of Directors were librettist Oscar Hammerstein II and his second wife, interior designer Dorothy , composer Richard Rodgers , seed company tycoon David Burpee and his wife Lois and author James A. Michener . As more and more children were referred to
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