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blazedale

What is the setting of The Good Earth?

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Posted by blazedale on Friday February 29, 2008 at 10:14 AM and tagged with setting, the good earth.

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  1. bmadnick Teacher
    High School - 11th Grade

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    The first part of the novel is set in Anhwei, a little farming village in east central China divided by the Yangtze River. Most of the people who live there are peasants. The second half of the novel is set in Kiangsu, a city in the south of China. Wang Lung takes his family here after they experience a famine in Anhwei. Kiangsu is a big city that's overcrowded. It has many places of entertainment and offers a whole different world to Wang Lung. Wang Lung stays here until revolution breaks out, and then he goes back to his village.

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    Posted by bmadnick on Friday February 29, 2008 at 10:53 AM

  2. gogryphons
    gogryphons Student
    High School - 9th Grade

    around the late 1800's eary 1900's 1880-1930

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    Posted by gogryphons on Wednesday February 18, 2009 at 5:22 PM