and for the studies of human ideals which are a great and living art of portraiture." No one had more influence on American political thinking about foreign policy than Henry R. Luce (1898-1967), founder and publisher of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE magazines from the 1920s to his death. He was born to missionary parents in China, and educated there until age 15. His Chinese experience made a deep impression, and his publications always gave large scale favorable attention to China. He gave some very strong support to Chiang Kai-shek in his battles against Mao Zedong.Robert E. Herzstein, Henry R. Luce, TIME, and the American crusade in Asia (Cambridge UP, 2005). pp 1-4, 247-49. The politically most influential returning missionary was Walter Judd (1898-1994) Who served 10 years is a medical missionary in Fujian 1925-1931 and 1934–1938. On his return to Minnesota, he became an articulate spokesman denouncing the Japanese aggression against China, explaining it in terms of Japan's scarcity of raw materials and markets, population pressure, and the disorder and civil war in China. According to biographer Yanli Gao: Judd was both a Wilsonian moralist and a Jacksonian protectionist, whose efforts were driven by a general Christian understanding of human beings, as well as a missionary complex. As he appealed simultaneously to American national interests and a popular Christian moral conscience, the Judd experience demonstrated that determined courageous advocacy by missionaries did in fact help to shape an American foreign policy needing to be awakened from its isolationist slumbers." Judd served two decades in Congress 1943-1962 as a Republican, where he was a highly influential spokesman on Asian affairs generally and especially China. He was a liberal missionary but a conservative anti-Communist congressman who defined the extent of American support for the Chiang Kai-shek regime. See also East Asia–United States relations#Missionaries in China Protestantism in China Che Kam Kong Christianity in China Chinese house church Chinese Union Version of the Bible Chinese New Hymnal China Christian Council Bible translations into Chinese Timeline of Christian missions References Bibliography . . Detailed survey, with quotes from many documents but not so much analysis. Further reading Carpenter, Joel, and Wilbert R. Shenk, eds. Earthen vessels: American evangelicals and foreign missions, 1880-1980 (2012). . Balanced survey; the Bibliographical essay (pp. 611–24) covers monographs and articles in English, Japanese, and Chinese. Hollinger, David A. Protestants abroad: how missionaries tried to change the world but changed