After graduation in 1933, Schoyer taught English in Changsha, Hunan, for what was then the Yale-in-China Association, and returned to Yale to study Oriental literature and Chinese language.
At the end of the war, he headed a mission to Shanghai to liberate seven thousand Allied prisoners being held in Japanese camps.
[5] Schoyer was on the first delegation to the People's Republic organized by the National Committee on U. S.- China Relations in December 1972, participating in Nixon's Ping Pong Diplomacy effort.
[6] Schoyer wrote four novels with Chinese backgrounds: The Foreigners (1942), The Indefinite River (1947), The Ringing of the Glass (1950), and The Typhoon's Eye (1959).
"[7] In addition to his novels, Schoyer worked as a correspondent for the Worldwide Press Service and a regular contributor to The Saturday Review, The New Yorker, The Reporter, and The New York Times Magazine.