Location in The Oz Series
the country of the china people
Also known as this queer country, this strange place.
A great stretch of country with a floor as smooth, shining, and white as the bottom of a big platter, filled with small brightly painted china houses, barns, fences, and animals, and peopled by tiny living china folk; enclosed by china walls and lying on the party's southward road.
Appears in 1 chapters, first in chapter 20, last in chapter 20.
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What the story establishes
| Appearance | A dazzling white land smooth as a platter, scattered with tiny brightly colored china houses (the biggest only waist-high), little barns with china fences, and groups of china cows, sheep, horses, pigs and chickens. (as of ch. 20) |
| Physical constraints | A brittle land where everything is fragile china, easily broken by large visitors; enclosed by smooth china walls that must be climbed to enter or leave. |
Relationships
- located in ← the china people ch. 20The china people live throughout the dainty china country, in its small china houses and barns.
- located in ← Dorothy's Traveling Party (ended) ch. 20Having climbed the china wall, the traveling party descends into the dainty china country and crosses it on their southward route.
- destroys ← Cowardly Lion (ended) ch. 20As he leaps onto the far china wall, the Lion's tail upsets a china church and smashes it all to pieces.
From the text
Before them was a great stretch of country having a floor as smooth and shining and white as the bottom of a big platter.Chapter 20
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