Isabel Crook has witnessed some of the most crucial moments in the country's modern history. Photo by Zhang Wei/China Daily .

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...