本文是一篇伦理学论文，在《大地之家》三部曲中，赛珍珠抓住了中国传统文化的文化遗产，也注意到了社会转型时期中国城乡生产生活方式的演变。她运用整合的方法，对包括所有阶级在内的整个民族的土地、婚姻、家庭宗法制度、军阀分离主义和社会发展形成了整体思维。通过对土地选择的比较，她提醒我们土地的重要性，强调人们应该与土地保持密切的关系，这在现代社会仍然具有现实意义。
1 Introduction
1.1 A Brief Introduction of Pearl S. Buck and Her Achievements
Compared with most people, Pearl S. Buck’s life experience is unique. It can be approximately divided into two stages. The first stage was her sojourn stage in China from 1892 to 1935. During this period, she temporarily left China for several reasons, (from 1900 to 1901, her family returned to the United States to avoid the Boxer Movement; from 1910 to 1914, she traveled through Europe with her parents and returned to America to receiv e university education; from 1924 to 1926, she studied at Cornell University and treated her daughter in America; in 1927, she temporarily stayed in Nagasaki, Japan to avoid the Northern Expedition; and in 1932, she returned to the United States for a one-year vacation), but she still spent most of her first half of her life in several cities of China, like Zhenjiang, Nanjing and Suzhou. In these places she spent her childhood, her youth and part of the time in her adulthood.
Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892 in Virginia, USA. Out of support for her father’s missionary work, she was brought to China by her parents when she was three months old. In all respects, this was the beginning of her great absorption of Chinese nutrients. In terms of living environment, her father believed that only living with ordinary people could he better carry out missionary work. Therefore, she lived among the Chinese people, rather than confined to the narrow circle of her own people.[3]255 Such living environment gives her more advantages in understanding the Chinese people and makes her witness and experience the cultural customs of China and the life of the overwhelming majority of Chinese people from childhood.
1.2 A Brief Introduction of The House of Earth Trilogy
The House of Earth Trilogy is a work created by Pearl S. Buck in the 1930s, which was the most prevalent period of Orientalism. Orientalism is defined in Said ’s Orientalism as a method used by the West to control, rebuild and dominate the East.[9] Under the influence of Orientalism, some Western writers who have never been to China only rely on a one -sided understanding, have created China into a barbaric and backward country according to the needs of Western power ideology. Through this kind of imaginary creation, they can satisfy the arrogance of Westerners. But Pearl S. Buck, as an American writer, is different from them. Pearl S. Buck once said, “we are all mysterious only because we are unknown.”[10] Therefore, she has written many works based on China and unveiled China to Westerners with a heart of reason, compassion and understanding.
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