This thesis analyzes The House of Earth Trilogy from the perspective of the differences and similarities of Chinese culture and American culture reflected.

This thesis aims at exploring Confucianism in her masterpiece, The House of Earth trilogy.

In the breakthrough novel The House of Earth Trilogy, Pearl Buck demonstrates the traditional and modern marital systems before and after China’s social reform through three generations of the House of Wang.

Enterprise should not be only large but also strong;

From “common city” to “greatness”;

In the context and viewpoints of Western theory of sublime, by reviewing the stories and disscusion of sublime in Chinese culture, we find that the category of "greatness" of Chinese classical aesthethics is consistent and compatible with the sublime category of Western aesthethics.

The grand beauty of perfect is more important than grand beauty of matter;the link of greatness with beauty,the grand beauty of greatness is higher than comm.