"The Good Earth (film) The Good Earth is a 1937 American drama film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, with uncredited contributions by Victor Fleming and Gustav Machaty. The film stars Paul Muni as Wang Lung. For her role as his wife O-Lan, Luise Rainer won an Academy Award for Best Actress."
"not offend her Chinese American audiences or her Nationalist friends in China. In contrast to Anna May Wong, who was two years younger and appeared more militant, Soo Yong, although she had spent almost no time in China, was able to balance several worlds and to sustain a position as an off-screen, cultural translator. ""Soo Yong,"" in Soo Yong Soo Yong, (Mandarin: Yang Siu; 31 October 1903 in Wailuku, Maui – October 1984 in Honolulu) was a Chinese-American actress. She acted in twenty-three Hollywood films and numerous television shows, mostly in supporting roles. Among them were ""The Good Earth"" (1937),"
"Good Earth by American writer Pearl Buck, Ayscough praised the choice of contemporary Chinese peasantry as the subject, but criticized the accuracy. Ayscough had a strong influence on the work of her friend Amy Lowell, being the source of Lowell's interest in Asian culture and Chinese poetry. Ayscough introduced Lowell to Chinese paintings and poetry in 1917. On a visit to America, she brought with her Chinese word pictures that she translated into English, which Lowell turned into rhymed poetry. Her first book, ""Fir-Flower Tablets"", with Amy Lowell, was a translation of poems from the Chinese. ""A Chinese Mirror"", published"
"Caroline Stulting and Absalom Sydenstricker, were on leave from Presbyterian missionary work in China. They returned to China three months after her birth. Pearl S. Buck was the first American woman to win both the Pulitzer Prize (1932, for ""The Good Earth"") and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1938). A world-renowned author, she wrote over 100 books and hundreds of short stories and magazine articles. Her books have been translated into 69 foreign languages. Buck herself was heavily involved in the preservation and restoration of the house. In the book ""My Mother's House"" she shared her vision for the museum:"
"casting for the major production of Pearl S. Buck's ""The Good Earth"", the Chinese American actress Anna May Wong was frustrated and angry that the lead role went to a Caucasian actress and refused to accept a lesser one. Soo Yong, on the other hand, while quite aware of this racial discrimination and critical of the novel for portraying only one side of Chinese life, accepted a supporting but still challenging role, that of the cruel aunt. During these years, she worked steadily, though always as a character actor. The ""Honolulu Star-Bulletin"" reported that ""When asked about the possibility for"
"Soo Yong Soo Yong, (Mandarin: Yang Siu; 31 October 1903 in Wailuku, Maui – October 1984 in Honolulu) was a Chinese-American actress. She acted in twenty-three Hollywood films and numerous television shows, mostly in supporting roles. Among them were ""The Good Earth"" (1937), ""Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing"" (1955), and ""Sayonara"" (1957). In 1941 she married to C.K. Huang. Soo Yong was born into a family which had come from Zhongshan, Guangdong, where the Young clan was one of the largest family organizations. She was known as Young Hee, or Ahee as a child. Her father was a contract laborer"
"born on October 23, 1942, in Great Falls, Montana, and grew up in Kirkland, Washington. Knechtges attended Lake Washington High School, and originally intended to study biology or chemistry. However, while in high school he happened to attend a presentation given at his school by the German Sinologist Hellmut Wilhelm on two well-known China-related novels the students had been assigned to read: ""The Good Earth"" by Pearl Buck, and ""Rickshaw Boy"" by Lao She. He was fascinated and impressed by Wilhelm's knowledge and presentation, and soon decided to change his academic focus to Chinese history, language, and literature. After graduating"
"""Werewolf of London"". (Decades later, Afro-European American TV actor Khigh Dhiegh, though of African and European descent, was generally cast as an East Asian because of his appearance, and he was often included on lists of East Asian actors.) ""The Good Earth"" (1937) is a film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was itself based on the 1931 novel ""The Good Earth"" by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming"
"in 2006. A film adaptation of the same name is in production. An English translation by Ken Liu was published by Tor Books in 2014. It won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel and was nominated for the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel. ""(In this article, Chinese names are written with the family name first and given name second. Liu Cixin's family name is Liu. Ken Liu's surname is also Liu; he is American and uses the English order.)"" During the Cultural Revolution in China, Ye Wenjie, an astrophysics alumna from Tsinghua University, witnesses her father being beaten"
"Wang Lung Wang Lung is the protagonist of ""The Good Earth"", a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Pearl S. Buck and the first volume of her ""House of Earth"" trilogy. Lung begins life as a poor farmer and marries O-Lan, a slave owned by the Hwang family. Wang Lung maintains a fierce attachment to the land. However, he is also extremely ambitious and envies the material success of the wealthy Hwangs. He is increasingly drawn to the Hwangs’ decadent lifestyle, and in the end, after his encounters with modern values portrayed through his time in the city, his experiences with his"
"me – with Chinese blood – to do the only unsympathetic role in the picture featuring an all-American cast portraying Chinese characters."" MGM's refusal to consider Wong for this most high-profile of Chinese characters in U.S. film is remembered today as ""one of the most notorious cases of casting discrimination in the 1930s"". ""The Good Earth"" was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Direction (Sidney Franklin), Best Cinematography (Karl Freund), and Best Film Editing (Basil Wrangell). In addition to the Best Actress award (Luise Rainer), the film won for Best Cinematography. The year ""The Good Earth"" came"
"libraries. Today, visitors can tour twelve rooms of the home and visit the pre-Revolutionary War cottage on the property and the barn built in 1827. The interior melds the two worlds that so greatly shaped the life of this renowned author. In the large library, two Pennsylvania jugs serve as lamp bases upon a beautifully hand carved Chinese hardwood desk, at which Buck wrote her breakthrough novel ""The Good Earth"". Buck filled her home with interesting works of original art by Chen Chi and Freeman Elliot , iron works of art produced by exiled artisans in China, Peking Fetti carpets"
"who writes about or lives in the West. Carolyn See Carolyn See (born Caroline Laws; January 13, 1934 – July 13, 2016) was a professor emerita of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of ten books, including the memoir, ""Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America"", an advice book on writing, ""Making a Literary Life"", and the novels ""There Will Never Be Another You, Golden Days,"" and ""The Handyman."" See was also a book critic for the Washington Post for 27 years. See was born in Pasadena, California to Kate Louise Sullivan Daly and"
"Sai Jinhua Sai Jinhua (; ""Prettier Than Golden Flower""; circa 1872-1936) was a Chinese courtesan who became the acquaintance of Alfred von Waldersee. Her real family name was Cao. Sometimes she said her family name was Zhao. During her career as a courtesan she used the names Fu Caiyun (), Sai Jinhua, and Cao Menglan (). Her art name (""hao"") was Weizhao Lingfei (). Some people referred to her as Sai Erye (, ""Second Master Sai""). Wenxian Zhang, author of an encyclopedia article on Sai Jinhua, wrote that she ""was regarded by some as a cross-cultural courtesan."" Wan Xianchu, an"
"In August/September 2016, Ernie Nolan directed the play at the Cor Theater in Chicago. The role of Shen Te/Shui Ta was played by a male actor (Will Von Vogt) and the setting was a contemporary Chicago ghetto. Tony Kushner's 1997 adaptation was used. The Good Person of Szechwan The Good Person of Szechwan (, first translated less literally as The Good Woman of Setzuan) is a play written by the German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau. The play was begun in 1938 but not completed until 1941, while the author was in exile"
"may say at least that for the interest of her chosen material, the sustained high level of her technical skill, and the frequent universality of her conceptions, Mrs. Buck is entitled to take rank as a considerable artist. To read her novels is to gain not merely knowledge of China but wisdom about life."" These works aroused considerable popular sympathy for China, and helped foment poor relations with Japan. Chinese-American author Anchee Min said she ""broke down and sobbed"" after reading ""The Good Earth"" for the first time as an adult, which she had been forbidden to read growing up"
"an ALA Notable Book. Lisa Yee Lisa Yee (born August 27, 1959) is a Chinese American writer and the author of ""Millicent Min, Girl Genius"" (2003), ""Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time"" (2005) and ""So Totally Emily Ebers"" (2007). The three books are a part of a trilogy, summarizing the three pre-teens' experiences in Rancho Rosetta in the summer. An additional book, ""Warp Speed"" (2011), was written. She has also written ""Good Luck Ivy!"" and a number of books for American Girl. Yee was born August 27, 1959 and was raised near Los Angeles. She attended Brightwood Elementary School and Alhambra High"
"Irving Thalberg was convinced, despite the studio's disagreement, that she would also be able to play the part of a poor, plain Chinese farm wife in ""The Good Earth"" (1937), based on Pearl Buck's novel about hardship in China. The subdued character role was such a dramatic contrast to her previous vivacious character that she again won the Academy Award for Best Actress. However, she later stated nothing worse could have happened to her than winning two consecutive Oscars, as audience expectations from then on would be too high to fulfill. After a string of insignificant roles, MGM and Rainer"
"missionaries, and based many of her novels, namely ""The Good Earth"" (1931) and ""The Mother"" (1933), as well as the biographies of her parents of their time in China, ""The Exile"" and ""Fighting Angel"", all of which earned her the Literature prize in 1938. Also, Mother Teresa of India and Shirin Ebadi of Iran were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially for the rights of women and children. Ebadi is the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive the prize. Another Nobel Peace Prize winner is Aung"
"Sue Hubbell Suzanne Hubbell (née Gilbert; January 28, 1935 – October 13, 2018) was an American author. Her books ""A Country Year"" and ""A Book of Bees"" were selected by ""The New York Times"" ""Book Review"" as Notable Books of the Year. She also wrote for ""The New Yorker"", the ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch"", ""Smithsonian"" and ""Time"", and was a frequent contributor to the ""Hers"" column of ""The New York Times"". Books by Sue Hubbell include: Sue Hubbell was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She studied biology. She was a librarian at Brown University until 1972, when she and her"
"opera and Mei offered to instruct Wong if she ever visited China. In the 1930s, the popularity of Pearl Buck's novels, especially ""The Good Earth"", as well as growing American sympathy for China in its struggles with Japanese Imperialism, opened up opportunities for more positive Chinese roles in U.S. films. Wong returned to the U.S. in June 1935 with the goal of obtaining the role of O-lan, the lead female character in MGM's film version of ""The Good Earth"". Since its publication in 1931, Wong had made known her desire to play O-lan in a film version of the book;"
"the time of the 1911 Revolution. Some scholars have seen ""The Good Earth"" as creating sympathy for China in the oncoming war with Japan. ""If China had not captured the American imagination,"" said one ""it might just have been possible to work out a more satisfactory Far Eastern policy,"" but such works as ""The Good Earth"", ""infused with an understandable compassion for the suffering Chinese, did little to inform Americans about their limited options in Asia."" The diplomatic historian Walter LaFeber, however, although he agrees that Americans grew enamored of heroic Chinese portrayed by writers such as Buck, concluded that"
"Sophia Delza Sophia Delza Glassgold (1903 – June 27, 1996), born Sophie Hurwitz, was an American modern dancer, choreographer, author, and practitioner of Wu-style tai chi, which she taught at her school in New York City. She authored the first English language book on tai chi, ""T'ai Chi Ch'uan: Body and Mind in Harmony"". Through her books, articles, lectures, and television appearances, Delza promoted the practice of tai chi for health and fitness, and was one of the earliest popularizers of Chinese martial arts in the United States. Delza was born in Brooklyn into a Jewish family. She was a"
"As an actress of Chinese descent, Loo's acting career started in 1930s. Loo mostly played small parts. Loo appeared in ""The Good Earth"" (1937), and was a maid in ""Mr. Wong in Chinatown"" (1939); her husband Richard Loo was also in the cast of both films. She began working with Central Casting during the making of ""The Good Earth"", when her language skills proved useful with the many Chinese-speaking extras. During the opening of World War II, Loo started The Bessie Loo Talent Agency, with offices on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. Loo represented Asian-American actors in the film"
"Lao She Shu Qingchun (3 February 189924 August 1966), courtesy name Sheyu, best known by his pen name Lao She, was a Chinese novelist and dramatist. He was one of the most significant figures of 20th-century Chinese literature, and best known for his novel ""Rickshaw Boy"" and the play ""Teahouse"" (茶館). He was of Manchu ethnicity, and his works are known especially for their vivid use of the Beijing dialect. Lao She was born Shu Qingchun (舒慶春) on 3 February 1899 in Beijing, to a poor Manchu family of the Sumuru clan belonging to the Red Banner. His father, who"
"Lisa Yee Lisa Yee (born August 27, 1959) is a Chinese American writer and the author of ""Millicent Min, Girl Genius"" (2003), ""Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time"" (2005) and ""So Totally Emily Ebers"" (2007). The three books are a part of a trilogy, summarizing the three pre-teens' experiences in Rancho Rosetta in the summer. An additional book, ""Warp Speed"" (2011), was written. She has also written ""Good Luck Ivy!"" and a number of books for American Girl. Yee was born August 27, 1959 and was raised near Los Angeles. She attended Brightwood Elementary School and Alhambra High School. Yee was on"
"Ai Siqi Ài Sīqí () is the pen name of Li Shengxuan (李生萱, 2 March 1910 – 22 March 1966), a Yunnan Mongol Chinese philosopher and author. He was born in Tengchong, Yunnan, later traveling to Hong Kong, where he studied English and French at a Protestant school and was exposed to Sun Yat-sen’s ""Three Principles of the People"" and Marxism. He read a great deal of Marxism, including the ""Communist Manifesto"", in Japanese translation. This reading is the root of Ai’s most important works, ""Historical Materialism and Dialectical Materialism"" (歷史唯物主義與辯証唯物主義) and ""Philosophy for the Masses"" (大眾哲學)(1948). In the small"
"Lisa See Lisa See is an American writer and novelist. Her books include ""On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family"" (1995), a detailed account of See's family history, and the novels ""Flower Net"" (1997), ""The Interior"" (1999), ""Dragon Bones"" (2003), ""Snow Flower and the Secret Fan"" (2005), ""Peony in Love"" (2007) and ""Shanghai Girls"" (2009), which made it to the 2010 New York Times bestseller list. Both ""Shanghai Girls"" and ""Snow Flower and the Secret Fan"" received honorable mentions from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature. See's latest novel, ""The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (2017)"", a"
"actress in the 1980s, played Sai Jinhua in a performance of ""The Beauty"". Chang Dai-chien, a painter, made a stone engraving portrait of Sai Jinhua. In English: In Chinese: In German: Sai Jinhua Sai Jinhua (; ""Prettier Than Golden Flower""; circa 1872-1936) was a Chinese courtesan who became the acquaintance of Alfred von Waldersee. Her real family name was Cao. Sometimes she said her family name was Zhao. During her career as a courtesan she used the names Fu Caiyun (), Sai Jinhua, and Cao Menglan (). Her art name (""hao"") was Weizhao Lingfei (). Some people referred to her"
"to Europe. They initially lived in Paris, with visits to Italy, and in the early 1970s settled in Capri. They also kept an apartment in New York City. Steegmuller died in 1994. Hazzard died in New York City on 12 December 2016, aged 85. She was reported to have had dementia. Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in Australia and also held United States citizenship. Hazzard's 1970 novel, ""The Bay of Noon"", was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010; her"
"survey of 16,786 farms and 38,256 farm families, which he analyzed in ""Chinese Farm Economy"" (University of Chicago Press, 1930), the first footnote of which cited his wife's novel ""The Good Earth"". Buck continued the surveys, producing a three volume study, ""Land Utilization in China"" (University of Chicago Press, 1937). In 1932,""The Good Earth"" won a Pulitzer Prize, but in 1935 the couple divorced. In 1941 he married Lomay Chang (1908-2012) in Chengdu, China. They had two children, Rosalind, born in China, and Paul, born in the United States. In the following years Buck was U.S. Treasury Representative in China,"
"Carolyn See Carolyn See (born Caroline Laws; January 13, 1934 – July 13, 2016) was a professor emerita of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of ten books, including the memoir, ""Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America"", an advice book on writing, ""Making a Literary Life"", and the novels ""There Will Never Be Another You, Golden Days,"" and ""The Handyman."" See was also a book critic for the Washington Post for 27 years. See was born in Pasadena, California to Kate Louise Sullivan Daly and George Laws in 1934 . See's father was"
"Fae Myenne Ng Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2, 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist, and short story writer. She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novel ""Bone"" told the story of three Chinese American daughters growing up in her real childhood hometown of San Francisco Chinatown. Her work has received support from the American Academy of Arts & Letters' Rome Prize, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and The Radcliffe Institute. She has held residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and the Djerassi Foundation. She is the"