Editing Pearl S. Buck (section)

== Legacy ==
[[File:Pearl Buck Former Residence in Nanjing University.jpg|thumb|Pearl S. Buck's former residence at [[Nanjing University]]]]
[[File:Statue of Pearl S. Buck.jpg|thumb|right|A statue of Pearl S. Buck stands in front of the former residence at Nanjing University]]
Many contemporary reviewers praised Buck's "beautiful prose", even though her "style is apt to degenerate into over-repetition and confusion".<ref>{{cite journal|last=E.G.|title=Rev. of ''Sons''|journal=[[Pacific Affairs]]|year=1933|volume=6|issue=2/3|pages=112–15|doi=10.2307/2750834|jstor=2750834}}</ref> [[Robert Benchley]] wrote a parody of ''The Good Earth'' that emphasised these qualities. Peter Conn, in his biography of Buck, argues that despite the accolades awarded to her, Buck's contribution to literature has been mostly forgotten or deliberately ignored by America's cultural gatekeepers.<ref name="Conn, Pearl S. Buck, xii-xiv">Conn, ''Pearl S. Buck'', xii–xiv.</ref> Kang Liao argues that Buck played a "pioneering role in demythologizing China and the Chinese people in the American mind".<ref>{{cite book|last=Liao|first=Kang|title=Pearl S. Buck: a cultural bridge across the Pacific|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=978-0-313-30146-9|pages=4}}</ref> [[Phyllis Bentley]], in an overview of Buck's work published in 1935, was altogether impressed: "But we may say at least that for 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."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bentley|first=Phyllis|title=The Art of Pearl S. Buck|journal=[[The English Journal]]|year=1935|volume=24|issue=10|pages=791–800|jstor=804849|doi=10.2307/804849}}</ref> 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 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.<ref name=npr>NPR, "[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125682489 A Chinese Fan Of Pearl S. Buck Returns The Favor]", All Things Considered, April 7, 2010. Accessed 7/4/10</ref>

In 1973, Buck was inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/pearl-s-buck/|title=Buck, Pearl S.|website=National Women's Hall of Fame}}</ref> Buck was honored in 1983 with a 5¢ Great Americans series [[postage stamp]] issued by the [[United States Postal Service]]<ref name=NPM>{{cite web|author=Smithsonian National Postal Museum|title=Great Americans Issue: 5-cent Buck|url=http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&mode=1&tid=2029350|access-date=August 14, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060920085046/http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&mode=1&tid=2029350|archive-date=September 20, 2006}}</ref> In 1999 she was designated a [[Women's History Month]] Honoree by the [[National Women's History Project]].<ref name="WHM">{{cite web | year=2010 | title=Honorees: 2010 National Women's History Month | work=Women's History Month | publisher=[[National Women's History Project]] | url=http://nwhp.org/whm/honorees.php | access-date=November 14, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140828145122/http://www.nwhp.org/whm/honorees.php | archive-date=August 28, 2014 }}</ref>

Buck's former residence at [[Nanjing University]] is now the '''Pearl S. Buck Memorial House''' or in Mandarin '''賽珍珠紀念館''' ({{zh|p=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<ref>{{Citation| title = Pearl S. Buck International: House Archives| url = http://www.pearlsbuck.org/archivescollection| access-date = October 24, 2016| archive-date = June 10, 2017| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170610131441/https://www.pearlsbuck.org/archivescollection| url-status = dead}}</ref> and the [[West Virginia & Regional History Center]].<ref>{{Citation| title = Pearl S. Buck Collection: About the Collection|url =https://pearlsbuck.lib.wvu.edu/collection| access-date = October 24, 2016}}</ref>