https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4 Learning about Pearl Buck and Historical and Background Information about the Time period surrounding this novel. (Pre-Civil War China) . Share what you have learned below. Be sure to add your name to each entry. We will be learning from each other. Thanks, Mrs. Held en-us 2018-03-19 18:50:27 UTC 2023-05-08 18:53:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://tracyconstantinereader.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/the-good-earth-pearl-s-buck.jpg dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540178116 Born in Hillsboro, WV; Spent her childhood in China in Chinkiang on the Yangtse River. Spoke Chinese before English. Parents were missionaries. As a child, forces to flee rebel forces of the Boxer Rebellion. ]]> 2020-04-29 19:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540178116 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540183148 At first, educated by her mother and a Chinese tutor, a Confucian Scholar.Then she was sent to a boarding school in Shanghai at 15. After that, attended a Women's College in Virginia in the US and studied psychology.  Graduated in 1914 and returned to China as a teacher.
1924 returned to US to seek medical care for her daughter, who was mentally retarded. In 1926, M.A. from Cornell University in Literature. ]]> 2020-04-29 19:27:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540183148 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540197401 This book focussed on the idealism of a University student who was crushed by the brutalities of war. 
(Written after Communist Revolution in China)]]> 2020-04-29 19:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540197401 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540200996 This was a personal story about her own daughter whose mental development stopped at age 4. ]]> 2020-04-29 19:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540200996 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540202841 Pearl Buck was married to an American agricultural missionary, John Buck. They live in Ahnwei, China, where Pearl gathered her ideas for this novel. , The subject of her mentally handicapped daughter is also present in one of the characters. ]]> 2020-04-29 19:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540202841 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540234494 Settled in small village in North China; He was agricultural expert. In 1920's the Bucks moved to Nanking, and she taught English and American Literature at the University. 
Left China in 1927, moved to Japan, divorced husband; Moved to Pennsylvania and married her publisher, Richard Walsh. 
Began writing...

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Best-selling novel in the United States  in 1931 and 1932.

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932

]]> 2020-04-29 23:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540577617 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540582931 2020-04-29 23:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540582931 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540593852 2020-04-29 23:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540593852 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540791895 Adoptions for Asian American Children]]> 2020-04-30 02:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540791895 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540794161 Addressed the issues of poverty and discrimination faced by children in Asian countries]]> 2020-04-30 02:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540794161 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540797163 First American woman and fourth woman overall to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature]]> 2020-04-30 02:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/540797163 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/542358312 2020-04-30 15:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/542358312 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/542363717 Westerns were murdered and US joined with Japan, Russia, Britain and France and sent in troops to stop unrest. The result: treaty that gave Western countries right to station troops in China indefiniately]]> 2020-04-30 15:49:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/542363717 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/542368250 Now different political groups: Communist/Nationalists all trying to dominate; In rural areas Warlords took control and charged high taxes

]]> 2020-04-30 15:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/542368250 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/542373672 Troop marched North and conquered the Warlords along the way. This is mentioned in the GOOD EARTH. Wang Lung isn't too concerned UNTIL they try to recruit him as a soldier when he in the Great City. ]]> 2020-04-30 15:52:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/542373672 dheld3 https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/542378704 Wanted the world to know about the Chinese People]]> 2020-04-30 15:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dheld3/u7uuqbwe0mh4/wish/542378704