Isabel Crook, a China-born daughter of Canadian missionaries who became one of her adopted country’s most celebrated foreign residents, beloved as an educator, anthropologist and articulate advocate ...
In 1947, Isabel and David Crook arrived in northern China to study what the Communist Party of China had done in a village called Shilidian (Ten Mile Inn). Wretched poverty in that region – ...
A noted educator and anthropologist, she spent almost her entire life in China, where she was a committed friend of the Communist government. By Clay Risen Isabel Crook, a China-born daughter of ...