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
Chung Sai Yat Po cultivated discussions on community economic and social development. "Chung Sai Yat Po" was one of the longest running and most popular Chinese language daily newspapers in the United States. In 1899, Ng Poon Chew (March 14, 1866 - March 13, 1931), a well-known and respected Chinese Presbyterian minister, started "Hua Mei Sun Po" (華美新報), also known as "The Chinese American Newspaper", a Chinese language weekly newspaper in Los Angeles. He moved the paper to San Francisco in 1900 and renamed it "Chung Sai Yat Po". The paper then shifted from a weekly publication to a daily publication. Ng regarded "Chung