China Interrupted : Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community /

China Interrupted is the story of the richly interwoven lives of Canadian missionaries and their China-born children (mishkids), whose lives and mission were irreversibly altered by their internment as "enemy aliens" of Japan from 1941 to 1945. Over three hundred Canadians were among the 1...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Grympa, Sonya, 1965-
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gale, Betty.
United Church of Canada.
World War, 1939-1945 > China > Sources.
Concentration camps > China > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Nurses > China > Biography.
Nurses > Canada > Biography.
Missions, Canadian > China > History > 20th century.
Women missionaries > China > Biography.
Women missionaries > Canada > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Developing a Mishkid Elite (1910-1934)
  • Chapter 2 "A Call to Live Dangerously" (1935-1938)
  • Chapter 3 The "New" Missionaries (1939-1940)
  • Chapter 4 Heeding and Ignoring Consular Advice (1941)
  • Chapter 5 Practising the Fine Art of House Arrest (1942)
  • Chapter 6 Adjusting to Columbia Country Club and Yangzhou Camp B (1943)
  • Chapter 7 "The End of the World Has Come" Pudong Camp (1943-1945)
  • Conclusion: Internment and the Reshaping of Canadian Missionary Community.

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