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A Foreign Missionary on the Long March - The Unpublished Memoirs of Arnolis Hayman of the China Inland Mission (Hardcover)
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A Foreign Missionary on the Long March - The Unpublished Memoirs of Arnolis Hayman of the China Inland Mission (Hardcover)
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In China in the 1920s and 1930s, foreigners were frequently at risk
of being captured by bandits and held for ransom. The phenomenon
became so common that foreigners who were captured were called
"foreign tickets" (yang piao). Because of their unique status in
China due to extraterritoriality, foreign captives were more prized
than Chinese victims. Successive CCP leaders in various Soviet
areas also in the 1920s and 1930s greatly valued the "foreign
tickets" they captured. In 1930 there were an estimated twenty-five
missionaries in China being held by Communist groups. The
foreigners suffered great deprivations in captivity; some were
tortured and a small number were killed. The CCP plundered their
personal and church possessions and even took funds intended for
relief efforts. However, it must be said, that the CCP, like
Chinese bandits, tended to treat foreigners slightly better than
they did Chinese captives, whose lives were held very cheap.
,br> It is in this context that A Foreign Missionary on the Long
March, a previously unpublished eyewitness account of the Chinese
Communist Party's epoch Long March, so resonates. The author, a New
Zealand-born missionary for the China Inland Mission from 1913 to
1945 was captured and held hostage for 413 days by the CCP's Sixth
Army from 1934 to 1935. Hayman's grim account of the Red Army in
retreat gives a new perspective on the historic Long March, as well
as a glimpse of the CCP in the time before Mao came to prominence.
It also blurs the line between the Communists and common bandits.
CCP historiography has turned the Long March into the founding myth
of the PRC. Hayman's memoirs offer a fresh perspective on this
crucial period of CCP history and implicitly, in the role it plays
in the CCP's current hold on power.
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