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John Lossing Buck
American economist
John Lossing Buck (27 November 1890 – 27 September 1975,[1][2] adopted the Chinese name 卜凱) was an American agricultural economist [3] specializing in the rural economy of China.
He first went to China in 1915 as an agricultural missionary for the American Presbyterian Mission and was based in China until 1944. His wife, whom he later divorced, was Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck.
Biography
Youth and education
Buck was born in Dutchess County, New York.
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He graduated from Cornell University in 1914, and returned for an M.S. in 1925, and a PhD in 1933.[1]
In China
In 1917, Buck married Pearl Sydenstricker, who subsequently became famous under her married name Pearl S.
Buck. In 1920 they had a child, Carol Grace, and in 1925 adopted Janice. In 1918, Lossing, as he was known to his friends, and Pearl went to live in Zhenjiang, where Lossing began his research into the C