The Pearl Buck Award is distributed by the Sino-American Foundation for the Advancement of Hermeneutical Studies to teachers, this award is named for which Chinese-raised, Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian?
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Pearl Buck Award The Pearl Buck Award is distributed by the Sino-American Foundation for the Advancement of Hermeneutical Studies to teachers who have made innovation or shown excellence in the adaptation of current evidence based teaching practices in high schools. The award is named for Pearl S. Buck, the Chinese-raised, Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian for Asian children and other children of color.
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Pearl S. Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973; also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu; ) was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel "The Good Earth" was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces". She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Norman Borlaug Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist and humanitarian who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
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Chen Shu-chu Chen Shu-chu (, born circa 1951) is a vegetable vendor and philanthropist from Taitung in southeastern Taiwan. She gives generously with her modest incomes. She said "Money serves its purpose only when it is used for those who need it and always be happy when she helped others." She was selected as one of the Time 100 for year 2010 in the Heroes category. She is also one of the 48 heroes of Philanthropy by Forbes Asia. "Reader's Digest" also honors her as the winner of 2010 Asian of the year. In 2012, she also was selected as one of the Ramon Magsaysay Award winners
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World Food Prize The World Food Prize is an international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world. Since 1987, the prize has been awarded annually to recognize contributions in any field involved in the world food supply: food and agriculture science and technology, manufacturing, marketing, nutrition, economics, poverty alleviation, political leadership, and the social sciences. The World Food Prize Foundation is currently run by Kenneth M. Quinn, former U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia.
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Kong Lingxi Lingxi Kong (孔灵犀) is a Chinese human rights activist, who graduated from Columbia University, majoring in Greek and Latin. He met with the 14th Dalai Lama on April 24, 2008, and wrote a widespread essay recounting the meeting.
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Cho-yun Hsu Cho-yun Hsu (; born July 10, 1930) is a Chinese American historian. He earned a Ph.D degree from the University of Chicago in Humanities in 1962.
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2009 Nobel Peace Prize The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States President Barack Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama's promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and a "new climate" in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world.
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Ma Chengyuan Ma Chengyuan (3 November 1927 – 25 September 2004) was a Chinese archaeologist, epigrapher, and president of the Shanghai Museum. He was credited with saving priceless artifacts from destruction during the Cultural Revolution, and was instrumental in raising funds and support for the rebuilding of the Shanghai Museum. He was a recipient of the John D. Rockefeller III Award, and was awarded the Legion of Honour by French President Jacques Chirac.
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Irwin Abrams Irwin Martin Abrams (February 24, 1914 – December 16, 2010) was a long-time professor of history at Antioch College, a pioneer in the field of peace research, and a global authority on the Nobel Peace Prize. His book, "The Nobel Peace Prize and the Laureates", first published in 1988 and subsequently updated and revised, is regarded as the authoritative reference work on the subject. His other books included "Words of Peace", which brought together selections from the acceptance speeches of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, and five volumes of "Nobel Lectures in Peace".
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Yap Thiam Hien Award Penghargaan Yap Thiam Hien (Yap Thiam Hien Award) is an award given by Yayasan Pusat Studi Hak Asasi Manusia to people with contributions in human rights issues in Indonesia. The name is based on an Indonesian Chinese lawyer and a human right activist Yap Thiam Hien. The award is usually given every 10 December since 1992. However, due to lack of funding, the foundation stopped giving out the award in 2005.
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Daniel Pearl Foundation The Daniel Pearl Foundation is a foundation based in the United States. The foundation was formed by his parents Ruth and Judea Pearl after musician and Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in 2002. The organization's mission is to promote cross-cultural understanding through journalism, music, and innovative communications.
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Orville Schell Orville Hickock Schell III (; born May 20, 1940 in New York City) is an American writer, academic, and activist. He is well known for his works on China, and is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. He previously served as Dean of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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Erich-Fromm-Preis The Erich-Fromm-Preis is a German prize bestowed upon people who have advanced Humanism through their scientific, social, sociopolitical or journalistic engagement. The prize is named after Erich Fromm, a Jewish German-American philosopher, psychoanalyst and psychologist. The price is conferred yearly since 1995, and since 2006, it is endowed with 10'000 €.
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Roy Bourgeois Roy Bourgeois (born January 27, 1938 in Lutcher, Louisiana) is an American activist, a laicized Roman Catholic priest, and the founder of the human rights group School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch). He is the recipient of the 2011 American Peace Award and also has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Chai-Sik Chung Chai-Sik Chung (born July 14, 1930 in Wonju, Korea) is an American social ethicist and sociologist of religion. He studied under Walter George Muelder at the Boston University School of Theology, where he served as the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics from 1990 to 2011. He also studied under the late Robert N. Bellah at Harvard Divinity School with whom he had been long associated. As a scholar of comparative religious ethics, he has been a pioneer in the study of social and ethical problems arising from East Asia’s modern transformation. He has published widely in both Korean and English, on social and ethical issues involving globalization and encounters between civilizations, particularly those between Korea, East Asian religious traditions and Christianity. His publications include "A Korean Confucian Encounter with the Modern World"; "Korea, Religious Tradition, and Globalization"; "Consciousness and History: Korean Cultural Tradition and Social Change"; "Korean Religion and Society Under Challenge: Continuity and Change"; "The Clash between Korean Confucianism and Modern Western Civilization"; and his culminating work "The Korean Tradition of Religion, Society, and Ethics: A Comparative Historical Interpretation and Looking Beyond".
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Murray Thomson Murray McCheyne Thomson was born in December 19, 1922 in Honan, China where his parents were Christian missionaries. Thomson has founded many non-profits in Canada. He was the 1990 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace for his work in peacekeeping and won the Order of Canada in 2001. He is a former Executive Director of CUSO.
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Zhang Haidi Zhang Haidi (; born September 1955) is a Chinese writer, translator, inspirational speaker, and Chairperson of China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF). A paraplegic since early childhood, she has been called the Helen Keller and Pavel Korchagin of China. Since the early 1980s, she has been hailed as a role model for disabled people and for Chinese youths in general, a "Lei Feng of the 80s".
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Sheryl WuDunn Sheryl WuDunn (born November 16, 1959) is an American business executive, writer, lecturer, and Pulitzer Prize winner.
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I Have No Enemies "I have no enemies: My final Statement" (Chinese: 我沒有敵人──我的最後陳述) was an essay written by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo intended to be read at his trial in December 2009.
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Henry Courtenay Fenn Henry Courtenay Fenn, more commonly known as H. C. Fenn, (February 26, 1894 – July 1978) was an American sinologist and architect of Yale University's Chinese language program.
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Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai ("Malālah Yūsafzay": Urdu: ‎ ; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎ ] ; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially education of women in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement.