Jelaskan Catatan dari The Good Earth

W. John Campbell: The Book of Great Books: A Guide to 100 World Classics. Barnes & Noble Publishing 2002, , pp. 284–294 ()

Charles Hayford, "What's So Bad About The Good Earth?," Education about Asia, volume 3, number 3, winter 1998.

Hilary Spurling. Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China. (London: Profile, 2010. ). Published in the United States as Hilary Spurling. Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. ).