The Good Earth: Chinese Culture and History: About Pearl Buck
The time period of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth spans 1882-1939. This LibGuide will cover the history of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Boxer Uprising, and the Russo-Japanese War.
"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like
Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life
upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels." ~Pearl S. Buck
A fictional biography of Pearl S. Buck in which the author, as a child, forms a friendship with a young Chinese girl that follows the women through adulthood as they deal with matters of love, loyalty, and repression.
A story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land and more land, while weathering famine and drought and revolution. Good Earth Trilogy: Volume 1.
The experience of the Chinese in America encompasses the conditions that led to their arrival to their many and diverse contributions to the life and success of the country.