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B. Preston Schoyer (1912 Pittsburgh - March 13, 1978) was active in American groups dealing with China, including the Yale-China Association, and the author of four novels and many articles on China. ==Career== Schoyer studied at Yale University, where he wrote for campus humor magazine ''The Yale Record''.〔''The Yale Record''. New Haven: Yale Record. January 1, 1932.〕 After graduation in 1933, Schoyer taught English in Changsha, Hunan, for what was then the Yale-in-China Association, and returned to Yale to study Oriental literature and Chinese language. His return to China was cut short by the impending war. In 1940, he made a dramatic escape from Changsha. After the city had been bombed eight times, he led a group of twenty doctors, nurses, and wounded by junk to escape on the Xiang River after dark, only to be discovered and attacked on the river in the morning by a Japanese fighter plane. He managed to get the party out through Indo-China in six weeks. When the United States entered the war, he became a major in Air Intelligence, and created the Air Ground Aid Section, which instructed airmen in how to evade or escape if downed behind enemy lines. He worked with Chinese guerrillas on several rescue operations. At the end of the war, he headed a mission to Shanghai to liberate seven thousand Allied prisoners being held in Japanese camps.〔Robin W. Winks, ''Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961'' (New York: Morrow, 1987), (p. 46 )〕 For this work, Schoyer won the Legion of Merit and Soldier's Medal."〔Flint〕 In the summer of 1941, Schoyer dated author Margaret Wise Brown.〔Marcus, 147 - 148.〕 As representative of Yale-in-China in Hong Kong in the early 1950s, he conducted negotiations between New Asia College and the government of the colony in establishing the college as an officially recognized school. From 1959 till July 1964, he was the Comptroller and Yale-in-China representative for New Asia. He was also the President of the Universities Service Centre in Hong Kong and Special Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University.〔''The University Bulletin'' (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 1.5 (November 1964) () p. 6〕 Schoyer was on the first delegation to the People's Republic organized by the National Committee on U. S.- China Relations in December 1972. In 1978, he became seriously ill and in March died of lung cancer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Preston Schoyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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