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Author Christensen, Erleen J.

Title In war and famine : missionaries in China's Honan Province in the 1940s / Erleen J. Christensen.

Publication Info. Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-273) and index.
Summary "The principle narrator of In War and Famine is the author's father, a young missionary doctor who, in a hair-raising journey, smuggled his family behind Japanese battlelines the year before Pearl Harbor. Erleen Christensen also tells the story of the many other missionaries who 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 traveled the province by bicycle." "Using letters, diaries, and personal accounts, many still in private hands, Christensen provides an eye-witness account of how a religiously diverse group of Westerners tried to distribute famine relief and conduct humanitarian and educational missions in the face of rising nationalism, autonomy, and resistance to foreign intervention. In War and Famine is a devastating portrait of the terrible cost of war to civilians in China during World War II."--Jacket.
Contents ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Maps""; ""Introduction: The Cast of Characters""; ""1 The Other Side of No Man's Land""; ""2 Behind Enemy Lines""; ""3 Honan Missions""; ""4 The Honan Way of Life""; ""5 Sitting on the Edge of a Volcano""; ""6 After Pearl Harbor""; ""7 The Long Months of Silence""; ""8 Crop Failure and Famine""; ""9 Helping the Famine-Stricken""; ""10 Two Journalists Tour the Famine Area""; ""11 The Suffering Continues""; ""12 The Embassy Comes to Call""; ""13 The Japanese Overrun Honan""; ""14 ""First war zone shattered""""; ""15 The OSS's Top Secret ""Project Tower""""
""16 Project Tower in China""""17 Behind Japanese Lines with Team Viper""; ""18 Reclaiming Honan Hospitals""; ""19 The Return of the Missionaries""; ""20 ""If we like them could die for Thee""""; ""Appendix: Spelling of Chinese Place Names""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Illustration Credits""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""
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Subject Missionaries -- China -- Henan Sheng -- History -- 20th century.
Missionaries.
China -- Henan Sheng.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Missions -- China -- Henan Sheng -- History -- 20th century.
Missions.
Famines -- China -- Henan Sheng -- History -- 20th century.
Famines.
Henan Sheng (China) -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1940-1945
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Christensen, Erleen J. In war and famine. Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2005472706
ISBN 9780773572591 (electronic book)
0773572597 (electronic book)
9780773528536
0773528539