The Good Earth (film) the Best Actress award (Luise Rainer), the film won for Best Cinematography. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Good Earth (film) The Good Earth is a 1937 American drama film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, with uncredited contributions by Victor Fleming and Gustav Machaty. The
Chung Sai Yat Po also covered female scholastic achievements in American colleges or professional schools and other women's rights victories. The paper's reports on women's emancipation in China led to discussions on Chinese American emancipation and women's subordinate role in America. These news pieces added to the American women's suffrage movement. The paper's promotion of Christian values and non-partisan political stance created a rivalry between it and "Sai Gai Yat Po" (世界日報), also known as "Chinese World Daily" (1909 – 1969). "Sai Gai Yat Po" was another major Chinese language newspaper in the United States, which followed Confucianism and supported revolutionary forces in China.