In War and Famine : Missionaries in China's Honan Province in The 1940s.
In War and Famine uses a small key - the author's family letters and infant memories - to unlock a whole world. Erleen Christensen was a mish kid, the daughter of one of about two hundred missionaries who remained in China's Honan province during World War II and the civil war that followe...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. |
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- 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.