Authors

Truman Penney

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Early Life: family background; education; accepted as Barry Wall Fellow to participate in Princeton-in-Peking program; brief history and list of accomplishments of Princeton-in-Peking program; trip to Peking.

China Experiences: arrives in Peking, September, 1921; first impressions of Peking; servants and living expenses at Princeton Court; work with and characteristics of Chinese students; social mores in Peking; descriptions of a Chinese wedding and a Chinese funeral; recreation and exploration in and around Peking; trip to and description of Buddhist monastery at T'an Che Ssu, and a description of a Buddhist service at the monastery; economic situation in Peking; Chinese response to Christianity, missionaries, native preachers, YMCA; witnesses battle between Chinese warlords at Changsintien; trip home, 1922.

Publication Date

1978

Publisher

Midwest China Center

City

Saint Paul

Keywords

Barry Wall Fellow, Princeton-in-Peking, Peking, Princeton Court, Chinese, students, social mores, wedding, funeral, Buddhist, monastery, T'an Che Ssu, Christianity, missionaries, preachers, YMCA, warlords, Changsintien

Midwest China Oral History Interviews

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