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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.
- Carol Buck, Janice Buck Walsh, Paul Buck, Rosalind Buck Lewis
- Pleasant Valley, New York
- 1915 – 1957
22 de may. de 2019 · The scope of study in Land Utilization in China, even by today’s standards, is breathtaking. The book starts by examining, in broad terms, land, food and population, topography, climate, soils, use of the land for crops, livestock and fertilizer maintenance, size of farm businesses, and farm labor.
- Calum G. Turvey
- cgt6@cornell.edu
- 2019
contained in Professor Buck's monumental work, the following critique is offered of 1 John Lossing Buck, Land Utilization in China: Vol. I. General Interpretation; Vol. II. Atlas; Vol. III. Statistics (Nanking: University of Nanking, I937). (University of Chicago Press, U. S. Agent.) methods of approach in land economics in
New York. His grandfather and namesake, John Lossing Buck, was one of the first settlers in the town of LaGrange, where he farmed until his death on January 2, 1918. A farm boy, Buck always took an interest in the science and economics of agriculture and at one time, probably during his high-school
- Calum G. Turvey
- 2019
9 de ago. de 2012 · (AP) In the summer of 1934, Pearl Buck boarded a ship in Shanghai that was bound for America. She was 42 years old, and had lived for 34 of those years in China, mostly in cities along the Yangzi...
This book is the first modern analyses of agricultural economics in 1930s Republican China using John Lossing Buck’s micro-data, thought lost to history until 2000. This edited volume presents a more accurate picture of the agricultural economy in the Republican Era.
John Lossing Buck was an American agricultural economist 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 (1892–1973).
