Foster Paul Stockwell (February 17, 1929 – October 12, 2023) was an American writer, historian and publishing consultant for Chinese publishers and authors.

Biography

Foster Paul Stockwell was born in

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on February 17, 1929. He was the son of Francis Olin and Esther Stockwell, two Methodist missionaries who went to

Fuzhou Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian, China. The city lies between the Min River (Fujian), Min River estuary to the south and the city of Ningde to the north. Together, Fuzhou and Ningde make up the Eastern Min, Mindong linguistic and cultural regi ...

Fujian Fujian is a provinces of China, province in East China, southeastern China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capital is Fuzhou and its largest prefe ...

, in 1929 then to

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

, in 1939. Stockwell 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 ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...

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. Foster Stockwell was 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 visited China many times in the last decades. Foster Stockwell was 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 Des Moines, Washington. Foster Stockwell died in

Burien, Washington Burien ( ) is a suburban city in King County, Washington, United States, located south of Seattle on Puget Sound. As of the 2020 census, Burien's population was 52,066, which is a 56.3% increase since incorporation in 1993, making it the 25th ...

on October 12, 2023, at the age of 94.

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stockwell, Foster 1929 births 2023 deaths American male writers People from Bartlesville, Oklahoma Writers from Chengdu People from Des Moines, Washington Historians from Sichuan