《异乡客》和《战斗的天使》是美国女作家赛珍珠为在中国传教的父母所写的传记。作者在书中解释了两位传主来华传教的原因和他们在中国的传教生活 ;剖析了作者本人的宗教态度以及西方传教运动在华失败的部分原因。虽然这两本传记为她获得 1 938年诺贝尔文学奖赢得了决定性的一票 ,但这两部作品长期没有得到评论界应有的重视 ;作品中所描写和分析的基督教传教运动及意义尤其为评论界所忽视 Abroad and Fighting Angels are biographies by American writer Pearl S. Buck, the parents of missionaries in China. In the book, the author explains the reasons why the two preachers came to China and their missionary life in China. It also analyzes some of the author’s own religious attitudes and the failure of the Western missionary movement in China. Although these two biographies won a decisive vote for her receipt of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, neither of these two works has long received the attention of critics; the Christian missionary activities described and analyzed in this work are of particular value Neglected by critics