Question: 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?

Context articles: John Lossing Buck
The Good Earth (film)
Jack Buck Award
Connie May Fowler
Cosmopolitan Club (New York City)
Pearl Buck Award
Green Hills Farm
China Sky (film)
Pearl S. Buck
Mabel Lee

John Lossing Buck (1890–1975) was an American agricultural economist specializing in the rural economy of China.
 He first went to China in 1915 as an agricultural missionary for the American Presbyterian Mission and was based in China until 1944.
 His wife, whom he later divorced, was Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973).
The Good Earth is a 1937 American drama film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive.
 It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck.
 The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, with uncredited contributions by Victor Fleming and Gustav Machaty.
Jack Buck Award is an award named after former St. Louis broadcaster Jack Buck and presented by the Missouri Athletic Club.
 This award was established in 1987 and is presented to individuals in recognition of enthusiastic and dedicated support of sports in the city of St. Louis, Missouri.
Connie May Fowler (born January 3, 1960 to parents of multi-cultural backgrounds) is an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, and poet.
 Her semi-autobiographical novel, "Before Women had Wings", received the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Buck Award (League of American Pen Women).
 She adapted the novel for Oprah Winfrey and the subsequent Emmy-winning film starred Winfrey, Ellen Barkin, Julia Stiles, and Tina Majorino.
 "Remembering Blue" received the Chautauqua South Literary Award.
 Three of her novels were Dublin International Literary Award nominees.
 Her other novels include "Sugar Cage" and "River of Hidden Dreams".
 "The Problem with Murmur Lee" was Redbook’s premier book club selection.
 Her memoir, "When Katie Wakes", explores her family’s generational cycle of domestic violence.
 "How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly", a novel oft compared to Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" in term of its structure, was published in 2010.
 Her latest book, a memoir titled "A Million Fragile bones," will be published April 20, 2017 by Twisted Road Publications.
 It explores her life on an isolated barrier island and the horrific impact and aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill.
 Her books have been translated into eighteen languages (http://www.conniemayfowler.com/about.html).
The Cosmopolitan Club is a private social club on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
 Located at 122 East 66th Street, east of Park Avenue, it was founded as a women's club and remains a club exclusively for women to this day.
 Members have included Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jean Stafford, Helen Hayes, Pearl Buck, Marian Anderson, Margaret Mead, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.
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.
Green Hills Farm, also known as the Pearl S. Buck House, is the sixty-acre homestead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where Nobel-prize-winning American author Pearl Buck lived for 40 years, raising her family, writing, pursuing humanitarian interests, and gardening.
 She purchased the house in 1933 and lived there until the late 1960s, when she moved to Danby, Vermont.
 She completed many works while on the farm, including "This Proud Heart" (1938), "The Patriot" (1939), "Today and Forever" (1941), and "The Child Who Never Grew" (1950).
 The farm, a National Historic Landmark, is located on Dublin Road southwest of Dublin, Pennsylvania.
 It is now a museum open to the public.
China Sky (aka "Pearl Buck's China Sky") is a 1945 RKO Pictures film based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck.
 It was directed by Ray Enright and featured movie idol Randolph Scott, teamed with Ruth Warrick, Ellen Drew and Anthony Quinn.
 Although set in wartime China, Quinn and other lead actors portrayed Chinese characters, in keeping with other period films that employed Caucasian actors in oriental roles.
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.
Mabel Lee is a translator of the works of Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian.
 She has taught Asian studies at the University of Sydney and is one of Australia's leading authorities on Chinese cultural affairs.
 Lee was a professor of South-East Asian Studies at Sydney University and had already begun translation of the poems of Chinese writer, Yang Lian when she met Gao Xingjian, in Paris in 1991.
 After that meeting, Lee offered to translate "Soul Mountain", a project which took seven years, and an additional two to find a publisher for the book in Australia.
 Following publication, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.