Pearl Buck s works about China, with the "country-peasantry" as the starting point of cognition, examines the culture nexus of power in China s countryside, outlines the political landscape of a traditional society, and, by virtue of vivid and lovely images, contemplates China s traditional social personality and makes predictions about it.

The conception of the social novels in the late Qing Dynasty stemmed from the writers examination on the reality,which was the prominent feature of this kind of novel.

The modern social novels refer to such novels as political novels,condemned novels and Patriotic novels,etc.

On the basis of his scientific views on practice, Marx criticized bourgeois ideology thoroughly using materialist methods, and succeeded in transcending that ideology and establishing his own scientific social teachings-communism.

"Father of Bengali novel" Bankim Chandra Chatterjee always describe woman question in his social novels.

Two American writers,Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen,each published a voluminous novel recently in response to their respective literary "manifestos" calling for "social novels".