Alice Hobart found her views on China transformed by the Nanjing Incident. Alice had moved to China in 1910 to teach and had married Hobart, an up-and-coming salesman for Standard Oil of New York. By 1927, she had already written two books and had become an ardent admirer of American big business and a booster of America’s role as enlightener of the Chinese. But face-to-face with murderous xenophobia in Nanjing, she found herself doubting that America’s beneficence had done anything for China.
