Huang Biao

American soil scientists' contributions to Chinese pedology in the 20th century.

American and Chinese soil scientists have a long and storied history of cooperation.The scope of this paper is to introduce a few key American pedologists whose influence shaped pedology in China.These pedologists can be divided into two groups by time periods.The first group arrived in the 1930s and were prominent until 1949 and included John L.Buck,Charles F.Shaw,Robert L.Pendleton,and James A.Thorp.The second group,namely,Richard W.Arnold,Hari Eswaran,Larry P.Wilding,and Stanley W.Buol,began collaborating with Chinese soil scientists after the Reform and Opening Policy of 1978.