I was intrigued by the descriptions of Chinese rural poverty. Eating bark and clay during famine times, fertilizing the garden with night soil, eating meat onc

I was intrigued by the descriptions of Chinese rural poverty. Eating bark and clay during famine times, fertilizing the garden with night soil, eating meat once a year. When I read The Good Earth, I thought it was a picture of China painted for Westerners. Which perhaps the article is as well, but it's interesting that the pictures are so much the same.