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 – ...
From the start, Isabel Crook was at the heart of things. In October 1949, riding in an army truck, she celebrated the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Tiananmen Square in newly liberated ...
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