kiangsu

Seven years later Absalom Sydenstricker persuaded the Mission Board to let him launch a personal assault on the vast, densely populated area of North kiangsu, setting up his campaign headquarters in the walled city of Tsingkiangpu, nearly three hundred miles north of Shanghai on the Grand Canal, where no missionary had ever settled before.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Seven years later Absalom Sydenstricker persuaded the Mission Board to let him launch a personal assault on the vast, densely populated area of North kiangsu, setting up his campaign headquarters in the walled city of Tsingkiangpu, nearly three hundred miles north of Shanghai on the Grand Canal, where no missionary had ever settled before.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Pearl’s father produced much the same shock and dismay in the villagers of North kiangsu as Wang the farmer feels in The Good Earth when he sees his first missionary: a man very tall, lean as a tree that has been blown by bitter winds.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

Pearl’s father produced much the same shock and dismay in the villagers of North kiangsu as Wang the farmer feels in The Good Earth when he sees his first missionary: a man very tall, lean as a tree that has been blown by bitter winds.

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010