in my hometown we had a house with a “Margaret Mead lived here” sign (Margaret Mead was a pioneering anthropologist associated with the 20th cen. Asian missionary moment, her “Coming of Age in Samoa” was key to the “but what if teenage sex” 20th Century), but hilariously the local celebrity associated with the 20th cen. Asian missionary moment was Pearl S. Buck (author of “The Good Earth”)