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“Each June, when the rice seedlings were transplanted from the dry beds to the flooded fields, I knew, the time had come for Kuling .”

Lianhuadong – The Path to Kuling

Pearl Buck in KulingSteve Harnsberger President, Kuling American School Assoc.

Web: www.lushaninstitute.comPhotos from KASA and Harnsberger Family

For Shanghai American School Lushan Institute Summer 2013 March 15, 2013

Pearl S. Buck, from My Several Worlds

Kuling was founded to save the children’s lives Pearl Buck’s family lost 4 children to disease, Kuling was a “Lifesaving Station”

Pearl S. Buck, “My Several Worlds”

Kuling’s First baby

“Uncle” Jim

Harnsberger

“The air up there is like the Alleghenies, and the brooks run clear”So said Pearl’s Dad, Mr. Absalomn Sydenstricker was one of the first 5 families to purchase a house lease

The ‘Thousand Steps’ or ‘Strong Man Steps ‘ where Sedan chairs hung over the edge

The Thousand Steps were appreciated differently by the Chinese, they carried a tough load

Quotes from ‘Lushan Memories’

Summer in Paradise – escape from ChinaWoods and Harnsberger Families – 308 “Oxford St”

Pearl S.Buck

‘We must let the Chinese come in’

“Perhaps we white people ought never have built a separate places for ourselves. but we did it so we could keep our children. We lost so many children. “ Mother of Pearl S. Buck