Professor Stuart Christie

Benefiting from recently catalogued archival materials, The Flip Side: Old China Hands and the American Popular Imagination, 1935-1985 evaluates the influence of an ensemble of well-known Americans born and bred in China—Pearl S. Buck, Henry R. Luce, Owen Lattimore, and John Hersey—after their return to the United States of America. The children of missionaries, all contributed in significant ways to...