Title

Midwest China Oral History and Archives Collection

Authors

Ethel M. Akins

Files

Description

Description of Peking Language School; adjustments to life in China; memories of Feng Yu-hsiang and Sun Yat-senl establishment and description of high school for girls and women (Emmy Evald School) in Honan, 1923; evaluates growth of indigenous church during first term in China; effect of revivalism on Lutheran Church of China; training Chinese women as evangelists; the effects of Japanese military activity upon mission work; the locusts of 1941 and the famine of 1942; trip to and life in Chungking during the early 1940s; establishment of Bible school in Chungking; experiences with U.S. people stationed in Chungking; return trip to Hsuchang, Honan, 1945; personal experience during the Communist take­ over of Hsuchang, 1947; leaves China for America; general evaluation of missionary lifestyle; general evaluation of Chinese attitudes to­ward Communism; experiences as a missionary in Japan and Taiwan.

Publication Date

1976

Publisher

Midwest China Center

City

Saint Paul

Disciplines

Missions and World Christianity

Recommended Citation

Akins, Ethel M., "Midwest China Oral History and Archives Collection" (1976). China Oral Histories. 1.
https://digitalcommons.luthersem.edu/china_histories/1