Tiananmen

The Tiananmen Square Protest (and how the themes relate with The Good Earth) The Chinese government at the time of the Tiananmen Square protest was a communist dictatorship that was beginning to adopt capitalist economics. The government ruled by fear. Many of their politicians were corrupt. There are some types of issues that the Tiananmen Square protest has in common with The Good Earth. In both, there are instances where one person changes something that …

…and in The Good Earth, though many people die, life goes on. It is almost as if history is repeating its self. In both The Good Earth and in China at the time of the Tiananmen Square protest, social class is an issue. In The Good Earth the social class of a person may change very dramatically very quickly, while China the time of the Tiananmen Square protest tried to eliminate social status all together.