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 Chung Sai Yat Po Chung Sai Yat Po (), also known as China West Daily and Zhong Sai Yat Bo was a Chinese language newspaper founded by Ng Poon Chew (伍盤照) and published in San Francisco, California from 1900 to 1951. It was a major Chinese language daily newspaper in San Francisco and helped to shape the Chinese community in San Francisco's Chinatown. The paper helped the Chinese to “break through their social and cultural isolation” to become Americans and reduced the gap between the Chinese community and mainstream American society. It was a financially independent and non-party-affiliated newspaper that