C. Campbell (Colin Campbell) Brown

C. Campbell Brown, identified in library and Project Gutenberg records as Colin Campbell Brown, is known for books including China in Legend and Story and Children of China. Surviving catalog and digitized-book records place his work in the early 1900s, with China in Legend and Story published in 1907 and Children of China in 1920.

His writing appears to have been aimed at general and younger readers, blending cultural explanation with storytelling. In Children of China, he presents Chinese life through the experiences of children, while China in Legend and Story suggests a parallel interest in myths, traditions, and the wider historical imagination surrounding China.

Very little biographical detail about Brown is easy to confirm from reliable, readily available sources, so most of what can be said with confidence comes from his published works and library listings. Even so, those books show a writer trying to make another culture vivid and understandable for English-language readers of his time.