John Lossing Buck

Pearl Sydenstricker married John Lossing Buck , a twenty-six-year-old American who looked like a nice big overgrown farm boy, with a degree in agriculture and a job gathering statistics about farming in the northern...

PSB bore her only biological child, Caroline Grace Buck , known as Carol, her daughter by Lossing Buck , in Nanjing (formerly called Nanking or Nankin), where a new job had opened up for him...

While she was building her own career PSB continued to devote hours to editing the reports which became the basis of her husband 's book on Chinese agriculture.

They had a respite from the new situation in China in 1929, when Lossing Buck , his career blossoming, was summoned back to the USA for briefing. PSB accompanied him to America, then sailed back...