![]() As Wang Lung notes in Chapter 12, "But Anhwei is not Kiangsu. However, an educated person could read Chinese, be it written by a person from the extreme South or a person from the extreme North, even though these two people would not understand each other's speech. Even though they are basically of the same race and write the same language, there are at least a hundred spoken dialects, which means that a person from one province may not easily understand what a person from another province is saying in many cases, verbal communication is totally impossible. Since China is one of the largest nations on earth, it is natural that its people are not necessarily homogeneous. ![]() ![]() After the overthrow of the Ching Dynasty of the Manchus in 1911 by Sun Yat-sen and other dedicated intellectuals who envisioned a united and democratic nation, developments did not go quite as well as the leaders had hoped. To better understand The Good Earth, a brief review of the history of China at that time that the story takes place would be helpful. ![]()
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