The Good Earth cannot remember what I did with that manuscript." After Buck died in 1973, her heirs reported it stolen. It finally turned up at Freeman's Auctioneers & Appraisers in Philadelphia around 2007 when it was brought in for consignment. The FBI were notified and it was handed over by the consignor. 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
Sai Jinhua of Chinese literature at Peking University, conducted an interview with Sai Jinhua. He wrote "The Wife of Zhuangyuan: Sai Jinhua", which he called her true story. Wan Xianchu wrote that the Xia Yan drama "Sai Jinhua" "was a particularly influential work." The writing on the play's title page, "The country is everyone's country; to save the country is everyone's duty", is in Sai Jinhua's own handwriting. Jung Chang wrote that Sai Jinhua was "regarded by many as something of a tragic heroine." The play "The Beauty" () is also about Sai Jinhua. In 2012 Liu Xiaoqing, who was a prominent