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War and Occupation in China - The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938 (Hardcover)
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War and Occupation in China - The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Christianity in China
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A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in
1937-1938, these letters by an American missionary in Hangzhou
provide a vividly detailed, first-hand account of the spread of war
from Shanghai across the Yangzi valley and the subsequent ordeals
of military occupation seen against the better-known backdrop of
the Nanjing Massacre - one man's embedded experience in one major
Chinese city of one chaotic year of war. Already 25 years in
Republican China and fluent in the language when the Japanese
arrived, the author was well-placed as both an observer of, and
participant in harrowing events - the provost of the Hangzhou
Christian College and responsible for its campus, president of the
local Red Cross which organized refugee camps and shelter for those
displaced by the looting and raping that ensued, and chairman of an
International Committee which sought to mediate between Japanese
and Chinese forces in an effort to limit destruction and then to
negotiate with the occupation regime on a day-to-day basis. The
letters - written twice weekly - describe pitched battles and
aerial bombing, the fearful conditions of civilian refugees, the
exigencies of the missionary enterprise and the experiences of
foreign neutrals in wartime China, as well as the practical
dilemmas of collaboration that arose under occupation - moving
about, protecting refugees, procuring food, tending a dairy herd,
and ministering to embattled congregations. The letters are fully
annotated to give readers a fuller perspective on places, people,
and events that surround the eyewitness accounts. A substantially
researched introductory essay provides necessary historical
background and situates the author in a longer missionary career
that began in 1911 and ended with wartime internment in 1943.
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