I don't think she was saying that this is how life should be. She was saying this is what life was back then, in pre-revolutionary (1919 revolution, not 1949) China.
Colonizers are also notably absent from The Good Earth.
Wang Lung is in the middle of nowhere in rural Anhui. He meets a grand total of two foreigners in the whole book, and one is a Jesus freak and Buck ridicules his ridiculous proselytizing.
Read Dragon Seed if you want an account about how westerners hung China out to dry while they concentrated their efforts on saving Jewish people in Europe.
I don't think she was saying that this is how life should be. She was saying this is what life was back then, in pre-revolutionary (1919 revolution, not 1949) China.
Wang Lung is in the middle of nowhere in rural Anhui. He meets a grand total of two foreigners in the whole book, and one is a Jesus freak and Buck ridicules his ridiculous proselytizing.
Read Dragon Seed if you want an account about how westerners hung China out to dry while they concentrated their efforts on saving Jewish people in Europe.