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This building, now much modified, was one of the childhood homes of Pearl Buck in Zhenjiang.
Arriving on a Monday, a sign indicated the site was close. Then we noticed, across the street…
… this sign. Pity the gate was locked.
While shooting this photo of the new museum, we were surprised to find someone arrive to enter the premises.
The museum was not yet officially open, nor was it anywhere near finished, when we got this chance to visit it.
We were delighted to learn our entry was granted by the curator of the new museum, Mr …
Pearl Buck achieved both earned and honourary degrees in her full and productive lifetime.
A work in progress… a re-creation of her sitting room.
Perhaps the most important of three literary awards, Pearl Buck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.
One of the completed displays was this pictoral history of Pearl… starting wtih the missionary family parents, the Sydenstrickers.
As a child with only Chinese playmates, she learned the local Chinese culture and language like a native of Zhenjiang.
Just some of the memorabilia of her life and times.
The tiny shoes of women whose feet were bound.
Autographed copies of many of her books.
This tablet was saved from the original school established by her father, and at which Pearl also taught after graduating from college in the USA.
A display of some of her favorite Chinese reading materials.
We departed with a warm goodbye from our gracious host.
The backside of the sign we first sighted when approaching the museum site.
