Talk:The Good Earth

message: The Good Earth artical needs serious expanding and cleanup, I have edited in some important details that have been missed in the original.  Any help would be appreciated. AP Shinobi (talk) 01:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Attention!

message: I've just read this book - and this article is more of a plot synopsis than anything.  Shouldn't this article discuss instead the reasons behind it winning a Pulitzer?  Perhaps the impact it had in culture?  I'm not the best person to do that, but I suspect it would be a more useful article if this were included.
:  Good idea!  Why aren't you the best person to do it??  Sign up for an account and start editing.  Even if what you add is fragmented bits and pieces, someone else will come along and expand.  Monkeyman 00:33, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Please Refrain from such language, if you have a major problem feel free to report it or edit it yourself! AP Shinobi (talk) 01:44, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

text: You do realize that if the book engaged you to that extent, it's a success? Don't blame Pearl Buck for the nature of Chinese society... Although your point is, to say the least, non-controversial: O-lan gets the rawest deal of any major character I can think of, and that's a decent range of major characters... ExOttoyuhr (talk) 02:06, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: ..

message: wow! how could people forget THE major theme of the novel: man's relationship with the earth.--Vircabutar 03:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Land is the only thing that matters; it's the only thing that lasts." -- Gerald O'Hara, Gone With The Wind 66.108.106.230 17:20, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: comment

message: Should there be a character map here for the Good Earth like they have on Pride and Prejudice. -RussB
:The characters are discussed in the article already, but that would be a nice addition. AP Shinobi (talk) 15:09, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: character map

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:GoodEarth.jpg

message: The summary did not get it wrong.  Wang and O-Lan got separated and both stole valuables: Wang by frightening the rich man and O-Lan by finding the secret horde.  As usual, O-Lan does everything better than her husband, even theft.  
What is disconcerting about the novel is Pearl Buck's seeming refusal to pass moral judgement on his characters.  In the latter half of the novel Wang Lung does a number of repulsive things: terrorizing a rich man for his money; ignoring O-Lan when her peasant shrewdness is no longer needed; deliberately encouraging his wicked uncle and aunt to over-indulge in opium until the re;atives are helpless addicts, yet she narrates all this with the same calm tone as she did his earlier suffering and genuine hard work.  I don't know why she wrote that way, but a basic attitude is obvious: Wang gets corrupted once he is no longer bound to the land. wrong.
Big question: when is all this happening?  We know the railway has just been introduced, and the total absense of Marxist ideas implies that it is before the Revolution, but there are no dates given anywhere in the book.
CharlesTheBold (talk) 04:31, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on previous 

message: I'm adding a shorter version of the "Characters" section which was cut October 2007. I looked but could not find why it was cut. Perhaps it was too detailed? My understanding is that Wikipedia does not provide a substitute for Cliff's Notes, so perhaps even the version I am adding is too much. ch (talk) 04:57, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characters 

message: If the original language is English, why is a translator listed? Brutannica (talk) 01:16, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Translator

message: Unless I am mistaken, isn't the name of this series the House of the Earth Trilogy? Why is that not listed? Panther991 (talk) 14:02, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Series Name

message: I removed the following recent addition. Since its style & format but imho  the content  as well are somehat questionable. I'm not quite sure what the point of listing selected references to chinese culture in a book on chinese farmers is to begin with. Obviously does a book about a chinese family being set in China written by somebody with a first hand experience contain plenty aspect of chinese culture.
Aside from the question regarding appropriateness of the content, there si an issue with the references, because ideally we would need references talking about cultural descriptions in the book and not references on cultural things themselves that have no connection to the book. Note that such sources belong in articles on such cultural aspects themselves (such as foot binding) rather than here. This is not an article on chinese culture but on the book.
Finally the style should be encyclopädic (less adjectives) and not written as review or essay one the book. The references/sources are not supposed to appear in the middle of the text, but the should be in    -tags or just listed at the end of the article.
--Kmhkmh (talk) 22:41, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: temporary removal

message: He considered selling his youngest daughter during the famine, but he didn't do it.  She was eventually betrothed to a son of a decent family and left her father's house when she married him.  Jeez.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.255.65.218 (talk) 23:33, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  None of Wang Lung's daughters was sold 

message: I challenge the neutrality of this article. In the Political Influence section, the page mentions that the Good Earth may have created sympathy and that it may be more complex/challenge issues in contrast to criticism that it is a collection of racial stereotypes, but the actual criticism is not included on the page. To be a fairly balanced article, the criticism and controversy, the book raises should be included. As a Chinese American, I personally felt uncomfortable with the way characters were portrayed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.230.195.164 (talk) 02:11, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism/Potlical Influence