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In War and Famine

Missionaries in China's Honan Province in the 1940s

by (author) Erleen Christensen

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2005
Subjects
China, Missions
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773572591
    Publish Date
    Feb 2005
    List Price
    $50.00

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Description

While the principle narrator is Christensen's father, a young missionary doctor who, in a hair-raising journey, smuggled his family behind Japanese battlelines the year before Pearl Harbor, Christensen also tells the story of the many other missionaries who also sought to relieve the suffering of innocents caught in the crossfire of war and revolution - brave women who marched orphans through enemy lines, missionaries turned OSS intelligence officers, a Canadian Anglican cleric, a Swiss trainer of seeing-eye dogs, and a diplomat who travelled the province by bicycle.

About the author

Erleen J. Christensen, a retired teacher, lives on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.

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