China interrupted : Japanese internment and the reshaping of a Canadian missionary community / Sonya Grypma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grypma, Sonya, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gale, Betty.

United Church of Canada.

Women missionaries--Canada--Biography.

Women missionaries.

Women missionaries--China--Biography.

Missions, Canadian--China--History--20th century.

Missions, Canadian.

Nurses--Canada--Biography.

Nurses.

Nurses--China--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.

World War, 1939-1945.

Internment camps--China--History--20th century.

Internment camps.

World War, 1939-1945--China--Sources.

History.

Nazi concentration camps.

Canada.

China.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

xxi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2012]

Summary:

"China interrupted is the story of Canadian missionaries and their China-born children (mishkids), whose richly interwoven lives and mission were irreversibly altered by their internment as "enemy aliens" of Japan from 1941 to 1945"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: China interrupted

Developing a mishkid elite (1910-1934)

"A call to live dangerously" (1935-1938)

The "new" missionaries (1939-1940)

Heeding and ignoring consular advice (1941)

Practising the fine art of house arrest (1942)

Adjusting to Columbia Country Club and Yangzhou Camp B (1943)

"The end of the world has come" Pudong Camp (1943-1945)

Conclusion: internment and the reshaping of a Canadian missionary community

Appendix A: Canadian missionary nurses in China, April 1941

Appendix B: all Canadian nurses interned in China.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-293) and index.

Other Format:

Grypma, Sonya, 1965- China interrupted.

ISBN:

9781554586271

1554586275

OCLC:

792940256