Fighting Angel; Portrait of a Soul
by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Category: China

This is the life story of Pearl Buck's father. Only the names of the people are changed. Sydenstricker was a contradictory and irascible man, isolated him from the rest of the missionary community, but he was also a man of stern convictions and complex personality sufficient reason to look again into the lives of individuals in order to gain understanding of today's Chinese church.