Charles W. Hayford is an Independent Scholar who has recently stepped down from editing Journal of American-East Asian Relations. He started to take Pearl Buck seriously when writing his book, To the People: James Yen and Village China (Columbia University Press, 1990), which told the story of liberal reform alternatives to Mao's rural revolution.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

China and the Nobel Prize: Four Essays on Classic Chinese Authors
On Lao She, Pearl S. Buck, Qian Zhongshu, and Wu Cheng'en...

Getting "The Good Earth"’s Author Right: On Pearl S. Buck
The most influential book on China since Marco Polo....
