American Expatriates in China - Pearl S. Buck, William Scott Ament, Owen Lattimore, John Hersey, Anna Louise Strong, Joe Alexander (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 68. Chapters: Pearl S. Buck, William Scott Ament, Owen Lattimore, John Hersey, Anna Louise Strong, Joe Alexander, Robert F. Williams, John S. Service, Frank Coe, Francis Dunlap Gamewell, Joan Hinton, Edgar Snow, John K. Fairbank, Ruth Graham, Sidney Rittenberg, James R. Lilley, Emily Hahn, China Hands, William H. Hinton, Jack Belden, Agnes Smedley, John Livingstone Nevius, John Leighton Stuart, Gideon Nye, David Hastings Moore, Solomon Adler, Ma Haide, Sidney D. Gamble, Jimmi Seiter, Douglas T. Ross, John Krause, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Carl Crow, Carma Hinton, Arthur Henderson Smith, Ida Pruitt, Lyle Martin, Arthur W. Hummel, Jr., Helen Foster Snow, Isabel Ingram, Walter Judd, Samuel Wells Williams, F.Tillman Durdin, Sidney Shapiro, John Espey, Alice Tisdale Hobart, Herbert George Welch, Emily Chang, David Vanterpool, J. Stapleton Roy, Charles T. Cross, Americans in China, Erwin Engst, Channing Moore Williams, Harold Isaacs, Arthur W. Hummel, Sr., Orrin Freeman, The Exile, Robert Baird McClure, Fighting Angel, Gerardo Laterza. Excerpt: William Scott Ament (Chinese Name: Mei Wei Liang) (born 14 September 1851; died 6 January 1909 in San Francisco, California) was a missionary to China for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) from 1877, and was known as the "Father of Christian Endeavor in China." Ament became prominent as a result of his reported heroism during the Boxer Uprising and controversial in its aftermath because of the personal attacks on him by American writer Mark Twain for his collection of punitive indemnities from north China villages. William Scott Ament, ca. 1905 William Scott Ament was born of Dutch and French Huguenot stock on 14 September 1851 in Owosso, Michigan, the eldest son of Winfield Scott Ament (born ca. 1811-1865), an ironworker, and Emily Hammond Ament (born 3 May 181...