Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck

female, deceased (1973)
Philadelphia writer, American historical novelist, AmericanexpatriateinChina, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker, Non-Chinese known by Chinese names…Expatriate in China, Nobel laureate in Literature, American
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, most familiarly known as Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker;) (June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973), was a...
John S. Service

John S. Service

male, deceased (1999)
Amerasia Affair, AmericanexpatriateinChina, Dixie Mission, Oberlin College alumni, Dixie Mission participant, Foreign Service…American, China Hands, China lobby
John Stewart Service (3 August 1909 - 3 February 1999) was an American diplomat who served in the Foreign Service in China prior to and during the...
Israel Epstein

Israel Epstein

male, deceased (2005)
AmericanexpatriateinChina, American, Jewish person, German Army, World War I, journalist…Jewish American, Communist Party of China, Expatriate in China, Japanese Invasion of China, China Defense League
Israel Epstein was a naturalized Chinese journalist and author. He was one of the few foreign-born non-Chinese to become a member of the Communist...
Sidney Rittenberg

Sidney Rittenberg

male, 88 years old
AmericanexpatriateinChina, communist, American, solitary confinement, Chinese Communist Party, Cultural Revolution…Expatriate in China
Sidney Rittenberg is an American interpreter and scholar who lived in China from 1944 to 1979. He worked closely with PRC founder Mao Zedong,...

Sidney Shapiro

male, 93 years old
Jewish person, AmericanexpatriateinChina, World War II, Expatriate in China, Foreign Languages Press, Second Sino-Japanese War…citizenship of the People's Republic of China, occupied China, Jewish American in the military, American, Communist Party of China
Sidney Shapiro (born December 23, 1915) is an American-born author and translator who has lived in China since 1947. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he...

Samuel Wells Williams

male
Matthew Calbraith Perry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, linguistics, AmericanexpatriateinChina, Sarah Walworth, Morrison Incident…American
Samuel Wells Williams was a linguist and diplomat from the United States of America. He was born in Utica, New York and studied at Rensselaer...
William H. Hinton

William H. Hinton

male, deceased (2004)
AmericanexpatriateinChina, peasant, Marxist, communist, Marxist theorist, Sinologist…American, Communist Party of China
William Howard Hinton (February 2, 1919 - May 15, 2004) was an American Marxist best known for "Fanshen", a chronicle of how land reform was...
Owen Lattimore

Owen Lattimore

male, deceased (1989)
AmericanexpatriateinChina, spy, Non-fiction writer, washington post, American, Academic
Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 - May 31, 1989) was a U.S. author and educator, the most influential American scholar of Central Asia in the 20th...
Ida Pruitt

Ida Pruitt

female, deceased (1985)
gung ho, AmericanexpatriateinChina, Department of Social Services, Meteorologist, missionary, rockefeller foundation…American, Christian missionary in China
Ida Pruitt (1888 - 1985) was the daughter of North China Southern Baptist missionaries Anna Seward Pruitt and C.W. Pruitt. After attending Cox...
Arthur Henderson Smith

Arthur Henderson Smith

male, deceased (1932)
AmericanexpatriateinChina, beloit college, American, Union Army soldier, missionary, Christian missionary in China…american civil war, The Uplift of China
Arthur Henderson Smith (July 18, 1845 - August 31, 1932) was an American missionary famous for spending 54 years as a missionary in China and...