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In war and famine : missionaries in China's Honan Province in the 1940s / Erleen J. Christensen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christensen, Erleen J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missionaries--China--Henan Sheng--History--20th century.
- Missionaries.
- Missions--China--Henan Sheng--History--20th century.
- Missions.
- Famines--China--Henan Sheng--History--20th century.
- Famines.
- Henan Sheng (China)--History--20th century.
- Henan Sheng (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While the principle narrator is Christensen's father, a young missionary doctor who, in a hair-raising journey, smuggled his family behind Japanese battlelines the year before Pearl Harbor, Christensen also tells the story of the many other missionaries who also sought to relieve the suffering of innocents caught in the crossfire of war and revolution - brave women who marched orphans through enemy lines, missionaries turned OSS intelligence officers, a Canadian Anglican cleric, a Swiss trainer of seeing-eye dogs, and a diplomat who travelled the province by bicycle.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- The Cast of Characters
- The Other Side of No Man’s Land
- Behind Enemy Lines
- Honan Missions
- The Honan Way of Life
- Sitting on the Edge of a Volcano
- After Pearl Harbor
- The Long Months of Silence
- Crop Failure and Famine
- Helping the Famine-Stricken
- Two Journalists Tour the Famine Area No
- The Suffering Continues
- The Embassy Comes to Call
- The Japanese Overrun Honan
- “First War Zone Shattered”
- The OSS ’s Top Secret “Project Tower”
- Project Tower in China
- Behind Japanese Lines With Team Viper
- Reclaiming Honan Hospitals
- The Return of the Missionaries
- “If We Like Them Could Die for Thee”
- Spelling of Chinese Place Names
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-273) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86325-8
- 9786612863257
- 0-7735-7259-7
- OCLC:
- 191936549
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