Foster Paul Stockwell (born February 17, 1929, in

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) is an American writer, historian and publishing consultant for Chinese publishers and authors.

Biography

He is the son of Francis Olin and Esther Stockwell, two Methodist missionaries who went to

Fuzhou Fuzhou (; , Fuzhounese: Hokchew, ''Hók-ciŭ''), alternately romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute t ...

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, in 1929 then to

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

, in 1939. He grew up and went to primary school in Chengdu, in southwestern China, in the 1940s. His father, Olin Stockwell, spent two years in prison in the town of

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

as a suspected spy just after the establishment of the

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and wrote a book about it: With God in Red China. Foster Stockwell attended several universities. He married on December 16, 1955 (his wife's name: Rhoda). They have one child, Norman. He is the author of books dealing with subjects as diverse as religion in China, information storage and retrieval, American communes, the exploration of China, genealogical research, misinterpretations of the Bible. Foster Stockwell has visited China many times in the last decades. He has been an editor for two major encyclopedias, a newspaper editor (Berrien County Record,

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, 1960–61), and a publishing consultant for Chinese publishers and authors. He lives in

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.About the Author
fosterstockwell.com: "He lives in Des Moines, Washington."

Works

*Boyang Zuo, Foster Stockwell (eds), Recent discoveries in Chinese archaeology: 28 articles by Chinese archaeologists describing their excavations, translated by Boyang Zuo, Foster Stockwell, Bowen Tang, Foreign Languages Press, 1984, 107 pages *Jichuang Hu, Foster Stockwell, Shuhan Zhao, Chinese economic thought before the seventeenth century, Foreign Languages Press, 1984, 107 pages *Mount Huashan, Famous Chinese mountains, Foreign Language Press, 1987, 120 pages *Religion in China Today, New World Press, (original 1993, second revised edition 2007), 277 pages *Foster Stockwell, Encyclopedia of American Communes, 1663–1963, Jefferson, North Carolina, 1998, 267 pages
Tibet - Myth and Reality
by American historian Foster Stockwell, original source: ''China Today'', April 1998, vol. 47, issue 4 *A History of Information Storage and Retrieval, McFarland & Company, 2001, 208 pages * Highlights in the History of Exploration and Trade in China, Foreign languages Press, 2002, 272 pages *Westerners in China: A History of Exploration and Trade, Ancient Times Through the Present, McFarland, 2003, 187 pages (reviewed i
China Information October 2003 vol. 17 no. 2 146-147
*A Sourcebook for Genealogical Research: Resources Alphabetically by Type and Location, McFarland, 2004, 336 pages *The Bible Says: History of Abuses Committed in the Name of the Biblical Text, Lulu Press, 2007, 236 pages

References

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