赛珍珠是一位美国作家，然而，恰恰是中国小说而非欧美小说对她小说观念的形成起了决定性的作用。赛珍珠1938年12月12日在瑞典学院诺贝尔文学奖授奖仪式上发表例行演说时开头就说：“我考虑今天要讲些什么时，觉得不讲中国就是错误。这完全是真实的，因为虽然我生来是美国人， Pearl S. Buck is an American writer. However, it is precisely Chinese novels that originated from novels in Europe and the United States that played a decisive role in the formation of her novels. Speaking from the beginning of a routine speech at the award ceremony of the Nobel Prize for Literature at the Swedish Academy of Sciences on December 12, 1938, Pearl Buck said: "When I consider what I am going to say today, I feel that it is a mistake not to talk about China. This is entirely true, Because although I was born in the United States,