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1 online resource (xxi, 305 pages) : illustrations |
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| Summary |
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 13,000 civilians interned by the Japanese in China. China Interrupted explores the experiences of a small community of Canadian missionaries who worked in Japanese-occupied China and were profoundly affected by Canada's entry into the Pacific War. It critically examines the fading years of the missionary movement, beginning with the perspective of Betty Gale and other mishkid nurses whose childhood socialization in China, decision to return during wartime, choice to stay in occupied regions against consular advice, and response to four years of internment reflect the resilience, fragility, and eventual demise of the China missions as a whole. China Interrupted provides insight into the many ways in which health care efforts in wartime China extended out of the tight-knit missionary community that had been established there decades earlier. Urging readers past a thesis of missions as a tool of imperialism, it offers a more nuanced way of thinking about the relationships among people, institutions, and nations during one of the most important intercultural experiments in Canada's history |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Gale, Betty.
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Gale, Betty. |
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United Church of Canada.
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United Church of Canada. |
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Église unie du Canada. |
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Women missionaries -- Canada -- Biography.
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Women missionaries. |
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Canada. |
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Biographies.
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Women missionaries -- China -- Biography.
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China. |
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Missions, Canadian -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Missions, Canadian. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Nurses -- Canada -- Biography.
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Nurses. |
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Nurses -- China -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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World War (1939-1945) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Sources.
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Internment camps -- China -- History -- 20th century.
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Internment camps. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Sources.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Japanese internment and the reshaping of a Canadian missionary community |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Grypma, Sonya Joy, 1965- China Interrupted. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2012 9781554586271 (OCoLC)792940256 |
| ISBN |
9781554582372 (electronic book) |
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1554582377 (electronic book) |
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1554586275 |
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9781554586271 |
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9781554586431 |
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1554586437 |
| Standard No. |
9786613863119 |
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