Pearl S. Buck's Former Residence

Pearl S. Buck's Former Residence

Pearl S. Buck's Former Residence is a protected cultural heritage site of Jiangsu Province.

Pearl S. Buck's Former Residence is located at No. 22 Hankou Road, Gulou District.

The building was constructed in 1912 (the architect and construction company are both unknown), covering a land area of approximately 120 square meters, with a total floor area of 356 square meters. The structure faces east and sits westward, built with a brick and wood frame, two floors above ground and one basement level, featuring a hip roof covered with blue tiles, with dormer windows on the roof and a porch at the entrance supported by four classical-style round columns. It is a small Western-style building with typical Western architectural features.

In the second half of 1919, Pearl S. Buck came to Nanjing with her husband and was employed by the University of Nanking, run by the American church. She lived here and wrote her debut novel "East Wind: West Wind" as well as "The Good Earth," which later won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1934, she returned to the United States to settle down and passed away in October 1972.

On October 17, 1998, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush visited Nanjing University and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university. The following morning, he specifically visited Pearl S. Buck’s former residence to express his remembrance of the writer whose works primarily focused on Chinese society.

On June 5, 2006, Pearl S. Buck's Former Residence was announced as part of the sixth batch of protected cultural heritage sites of Jiangsu Province.

Pearl S. Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973), translated literally as 珀尔·巴克 (Pèi'ěr Bākè), was an American writer, Nobel laureate, and women’s rights activist. Taken to China by her missionary parents when she was just four months old, she spent her childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood in Zhenjiang for a total of 18 years. Pearl S. Buck lived in China for nearly 40 years and referred to Chinese as her "first language" and Zhenjiang as her "Chinese hometown." At the former Chongshi Girls' School on Fengshan Mountain in Zhenjiang—where she studied as a child and which still stands today... More detailed information about Pearl S. Buck ++

Further reading:

· Sixth Batch of Protected Cultural Heritage Sites of Jiangsu Province

· Fifth Batch of Protected Cultural Heritage Sites of Jiangsu Province