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
Bu Feiyan Yong, and the adoration generated a sense of responsibility in her to surpass the orthodox "Wuxia" novels. Bu Feiyan "This is a Chinese name; the family name is Xin." Xin Xiaojuan ( born 11 July 1981), whose pen name Bu Feiyan (步非烟) is taken from a "Tangchuanqi" (short stories of the Tang dynasty) by Huangfu Mei, is a Chinese female writer known for her "wuxia" novels. Born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, she studied at the Chinese Department of Peking University in 1999, awarded with a master's degree in ancient Chinese literature in 2006 and a Doctor's degree from the Chinese