The Good Earth (film) 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 film stars Paul Muni as Wang Lung. For her role as his wife O-Lan, Luise Rainer won an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Classic Chinese Novels Classic Chinese Novels In sinology, the Classic Chinese Novels are two sets of the four or six best-known traditional Chinese novels. The Four Classic Novels include "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Water Margin" and "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the Six Classic Novels add "The Unofficial History of the Scholars" and "The Plum in the Golden Vase" to this list. These are among the world's longest and oldest novels, and they are the most read, studied and adapted works of pre-modern Chinese fiction. Several terms have been used to refer to the novels and various