中国振兴的路径和方法是赛珍珠中国主题小说创作的重要主旨,“社会福音”是其提出的重要模式之一,呼吁将“社会服务”精神植入中国青年一代思想中,引导知识分子走向基层,实现全中国渐进式振兴。她的“社会福音”思想在发展过程中逐渐脱离神学框架,并在小说创作主旨中体现了这一世俗化的过程。
Regeneration of China has always been one of the themes in Pearl S. Buck's novels. She embraced Social Gospel as one of the strategies for Chinese regeneration and called on the idea of social service in the younger generation. She insisted that Chinese intellectuals should get closer to the common people and strive for a gradual regeneration. Her Social Gospel receded from Christianity in its development and its secularization can be clearly traced in her novels like The Young Revolutionist, Pavilion of Women and Kinfolk.