A symposium on Pearl S. Buck and her time in China was recently held as part of a series of events celebrating the 110th anniversary of
Nanjing University. According to
a short article on the symposium in
China Daily, approximately 20 scholars and researchers from around the world attended the symposium, and the prevailing view was that,
Pearl S. Buck was a remarkable cultural envoy who played a pioneering role in demystifying China in the American mind in the early 20th century...
The article appears as a sidebar to a longer article, "
Quality key to real learning," which described a "Meeting With Nobel Prize Laureates," another event the university organized on May 19th to celebrate it's anniversary. Four Nobel Laureates,
Daniel Shechtman,
Aaron Ciechanover,
Robert Huber and
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio were invited to meet with middle school and university students. Of course,
Pearl Buck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
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| Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature, speaks to students at Nanjing University, Jiangsu province, on Saturday. Xu Qi / for China Daily |
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