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Zhenjiang, this east China city that once was home to noted American author Pearl S. Buck held a ceremony recently to celebrate the 110th anniversary of her birth.

In the Jiangsu Province city where the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author lived and taught for 18 years, her former residence was renovated and a set of commemorative stamps in her honor were issued.

At the ceremony, Guo Lirong, vice president of the city's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, said Buck was devoted to cultural communication between China and the United States and "deserves respect and commemoration from Chinese people as well as other peoples who love peace."

Buck's best-known novel, "The Good Earth," won her the Nobel Prize in 1938 for its graphic and ultimately sorrowful depiction of Chinese peasant life.

Buck, a daughter of missionaries, spent much of the first 40 years of her life in China. She wished to return a half century ago but was unable to due to political reasons.

Buck's adopted daughter Janice Walsh said that at her US home in Pennsylvania, Buck often had Chinese guests to talk about her hometown in China.

Buck's adopted children and members of Pearl S. Buck International, the humanitarian organization she founded, were invited to Zhenjiang for this celebration.

Her works are studied in the School of Foreign Studies of Nanjing University, where she taught, and a number of seminars on her works have been held in China.

Buck was born on June 26, 1892 and died in 1973.