This was the case until Pearl Buck revealed the Promethean Chinese peasant battling against nature in her best-selling novel The Good Earth.
直到傳教士的女兒賽珍珠寫了一本暢銷小說「大地」，既消除了中國農民殘酷又迷信的惡名，還使之成為在歷史與大自然中奮戰不懈的英雄。