Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Over the last 100 years, I have witnessed two world wars, two revolutions, a number of mass movements.” So ...

Isabel Crook (left) and Fu Han attend the screening of Isabel Brown Crook: An Anthropologist in China - Childhood Memories from Bailuding in Beijing on August 20. Photo: Li Hao/GT As the guests, both ...

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 – ...

Canadian educator and anthropologist Isabel Crook, who pioneered English language teaching in New China and was a recipient of the Friendship Medal, China's highest honor for foreigners, died on ...

As one of the first foreign teachers at a Chinese university and a witness to China's transformation from war to peace, Canadian Isabel Crook celebrated her 100th birthday on Thursday. Together with ...

The excitable Global Times newspaper sums up the swagger that passes for journalism in Beijing where it is published by the People’s Daily, part of the central committee of the Communist Party. The ...

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 ...

Isabel Crook, Maoist English teacher who spent her life in China supporting the regime – obituary With her husband she laid the foundations for foreign-language teaching in China but was accused of ...

On Sunday, Isabel Crook, recipient of the Friendship Medal of China, pioneer in English teaching in China, and International Communist fighter and advisor of Beijing Bailie University, China's ...

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, who has died aged 107, was born in China to Canadian missionaries but became an ardent Maoist; she devoted most of her life to the country, working as an English teacher at Peking First ...