Pearl S. Buck recorded her experiences with the people of China in China as I See It (1970), which is a collection of her writings and speeches beginning in the 1930s up to the Communist takeover. Although Buck's experiences as an American living in China are somewhat different than Lord's, both loved China and her people, as Buck says, "My first conscious memories are of her people and her landscapes. They formed my childhood world . . . Chinese in education and feeling, I knew I was American on the day I very nearly lost my life at the hands of a Communist army which invaded the city where I lived."

The book also resembles Orville Schell's "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!": China Encounters the West (1980), which is a series of vignettes about the changes in China since the author's first visit to China in 1975 and the price of...