When China loosened ldeological controls a notch in 1988, Peter gave up an insurance-company job in Connecticut and moved his family to this htstoric carttel of wide streets and thick, green sycamore trees. He managed modern China's first Bible printing press before quitting last year to start a foreign consulting firm. Elyn became minister of a foretgn congregation here. Their daughters, meantime, soaked up local Culture. Soon they were enrolled at Nanjtng's Little Red Flowers Song and Dance Troupe, a nationally famous primary school for talented children.
American kids are pretty mindless.
She and her sister do what they can to ensure that Chinese children aren't. They give all their earnings to a program that pays school fees for poor children. It's easier to come back to China than to go to America.