The Good Earth The Good Earth The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes "Sons" (1932) and "A House Divided" (1935). It was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Buck, who grew up in China as the daughter of missionaries, wrote the book while living in China and
Chung Sai Yat Po cultivated discussions on community economic and social development. "Chung Sai Yat Po" was one of the longest running and most popular Chinese language daily newspapers in the United States. In 1899, Ng Poon Chew (March 14, 1866 - March 13, 1931), a well-known and respected Chinese Presbyterian minister, started "Hua Mei Sun Po" (華美新報), also known as "The Chinese American Newspaper", a Chinese language weekly newspaper in Los Angeles. He moved the paper to San Francisco in 1900 and renamed it "Chung Sai Yat Po". The paper then shifted from a weekly publication to a daily publication. Ng regarded "Chung