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 ...

Isabel Crook spent most of the year from 1940 to 1941 walking the streets of a rural village in Sichuan province called Prosperity, carrying a stick to beat off guard dogs and wearing a simple blue ...

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 ...

The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time blog profiles Isabel Crook, a 98-year-old resident of Beijing, who was born and spent most of her life in China. Crook has published a book, co-written with ...