Japanese internment and the reshaping of a Canadian missionary community Grypma, Sonya Joy 1965- creator text bibliography biography Electronic books. onc Waterloo, Ont Wilfrid Laurier University Press ©2012 2012 monographic eng 1 online resource (xxi, 305 pages) : illustrations 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. China Interrupted provides insight into the many ways in which health care efforts in wartime China extended out of the tight-knit missionary community that had been established there decades earlier. Urging readers past a thesis of missions as a tool of imperialism, it offers a more nuanced way of thinking about the relationships among people, institutions, and nations during one of the most important intercultural experiments in Canada's history. Chapter 1 Developing a Mishkid Elite (1910-1934) -- Chapter 2 "A Call to Live Dangerously" (1935-1938) -- Chapter 3 The "New" Missionaries (1939-1940) -- Chapter 4 Heeding and Ignoring Consular Advice (1941) -- Chapter 5 Practising the Fine Art of House Arrest (1942) -- Chapter 6 Adjusting to Columbia Country Club and Yangzhou Camp B (1943) -- Chapter 7 "The End of the World Has Come" Pudong Camp (1943-1945) -- Conclusion: Internment and the Reshaping of Canadian Missionary Community. Sonya Grypma. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-cn--- a-cc--- Gale, Betty United Church of Canada. Women missionaries Canada Biography Women missionaries China Biography Missions, Canadian China History 20th century Nurses Canada Biography Nurses China Biography World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese World War, 1939-1945 China Sources Concentration camps China History 20th century BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Religious RELIGION Christian Ministry Missions BV3415 .G79 2012eb 266/.0237105100922 Grypma, Sonya Joy, 1965- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2012 (OCoLC)792940256 9781554582372 1554582377 386311 MIL http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1066742 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1066742 CDX 120530 20200709060413.0 ocn808422782 eng