This is an amazing development.
John Leighton Stuart, China Expert, Is Buried There at Last - NYTimes.com.
Stuart, born in China and a resident there for most of his life until 1949 had desired before he died to be buried in China. But:
It took decades to resolve the matter, in part, because of an essay Mao wrote on Aug. 18, 1949, titled “Farewell, Leighton Stuart!” In it, Mao called Mr. Stuart “a symbol of the complete defeat of the U.S. policy of aggression” and chided the United States for its support of the Nationalists, who fought the Communists in a civil war before fleeing to Taiwan in 1949 with their leader, Chiang Kai-shek.
He was symbolic of so much. Not just the American project in China, which he represented in his roles as a University President and diplomat, but his being a child of missionaries and a misionary educator himself. He represented what has long been identified as the idea of "Christianity as the cultural agent of western imperialism."
Now his ashes lie in Hangzhou, China.
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