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===United States=== Buck divorced her husband John in [[Reno, Nevada]] on June 11, 1935,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Pearl Buck's divorce|url = http://renodivorcehistory.org/library/pearl-bucks-divorce/|website = renodivorcehistory.org|access-date = October 15, 2015}}</ref> and she married Richard Walsh that same day.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/essays/resurrection-pearl-buck|title=The Resurrection of Pearl Buck|last=Melvin|first=Sheila|date=2006|website=Wilson Quarterly Archives|access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref> He reportedly offered her advice and affection which, her biographer concludes, "helped make Pearl's prodigious activity possible". The couple moved with Janice to [[Pearl S. Buck House National Historic Landmark|Green Hills Farm]] in [[Bucks County, Pennsylvania|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.<ref name=":1" /> Following the [[Chinese Communist Revolution|Communist Revolution]] in 1949, Buck was repeatedly refused all attempts to return to her beloved China. Her 1962 novel ''[[Satan Never Sleeps]]'' is heavily anti-communist and filled with religious themes, and was adapted into a film in the same year. During the [[Cultural Revolution]], Buck, as a preeminent American writer of Chinese village life, was denounced as an "American [[Cultural imperialism|cultural imperialist]]".<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125682489 | title=A Chinese Fan Of Pearl S. Buck Returns The Favor| date=April 7, 2010 | work=[[NPR]]}}</ref> Buck was "heartbroken" when she was prevented from visiting China with [[Richard Nixon]] in 1972, reportedly due to political interference by [[Jiang Qing]], a prominent figure in the denunciation of Buck.<ref name=":0" />
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