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Midwest China Oral History And Archives Collection, Leita Partridge Christianson

China Oral Histories

Early life: family background; education; called by and application process of China Inland Mission (CIM); financial arrangements of CIM.

China experience: CIM cultural education and language school; trip to and description of station (Yungping) in West Yunnan, 1933; impressions of Shanghai; adjustments to life in China; evangelical and medical work and CIM baptism requirements; medical risks of mission work; effects of Japanese and Communists upon CIM work; adjustments to western lifestyle during furlough; memories of wartime Chungking; description of post-war Lungling; experiences with Communists in Lungling; journey out of China; lessons learned during China experience; memorable missionaries.

Midwest China Oral History And Archives Collection, Daniel Chu

China Oral Histories

Father's life: parents decision to join Lutheran Church of China; role in and development of Sinyang Lutheran Church; involvement in community and social programs; experience with Red Spears in Sinyang; anti-Christian sentiment and imprisonment during 1927; as president of Lutheran Church of China, 1932 - 1938; views on denominationalism and ecumenism; activities in Chungking during Japanese war, plans for post-war church.

Personal experience: education, thoughts about Christianity's meaning for China as a students; reposnse to mission schools; comparison of being a student at Yale-in-China and Lutheran Theological Seminary in Shekow; recommendations for Lutheran Church.

Midwest China Oral History And Archives Collection, Emery Carlson

China Oral Histories

Emery Carlson and Elvera Teed Carlson

Early Life: accepted as medical missionaries by the Augustana Lutheran Mission Board, 1940.

China Experiences: trip to Hsuchang; experience during famine of early 1940s; working conditions in Hsuchang; fleeing from the Japanese to Chungking; work in Kunming after the war; lessons learned from the China experience.

Midwest China Oral History And Archives Collection, Rowland Cross

China Oral Histories

Early life: receives commission from American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1979.

China experience: discussion of evangelism, social work, and ecumenism in China; assigned to North China Mission (NCM); NCM's policy of developing indigenous Chinese church and results; organizational structure of NCM; NCM membership requirements; brief biographies of more than 15 Chinese Christian leaders; political attitudes/activities of NCM in response to Japanese and western actions; biographical information of post-war church leaders; Y.T. Wu and the origins of the Three-Self Movement; efforts and individuals involved in establishing post-war plans for enlarging ecumenical church in China; efforts to unify Christian press, …

Midwest China Oral History And Archives Collection, Morris Barnett Depass

China Oral Histories

Early life: education; receives orders from US Army for China, 1923.

China experience: organizes language school for US Army officers; gathers information for military intelligence regarding warlords prior to the Japanese war; response to the White Russians in China; impressions of missionaries, foreign business people and Chiang Kai-shek memerable American military figures in China; rescue of lost American servicemen during WWII.