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China Interrupted: Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community

China Interrupted: Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community

Grypma, Sonya

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceGeneral ChristianityWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1554586275
ISBN13: 9781554586271
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Published: Aug 1 2012
Pages: 315
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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