Authors

H Mead Cavert

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Early life: family background; education; joins US Air Force and assigned to the Tenth Weather Squadron, 1943.

China Experiences: examples of local Chinese technology; visit to a Chinese university; description of a local village and local agriculture; memories of inflation; participation in a Chinese dinner; the YMCA in Kuming; weather forecasting in Kunming; description of military installations in Kunming and Nanking; forecasting, traveling, living and other activities at Laohokow and other bases, 1944 - 1945; a Maryknoll mission compound in Fukien; response of American service people to Chinese; awareness of corruption in China; scholarship support given graduate students in Amoy University by Nationalist government; the Nationalist livestock experimental farm near Yungan, Fukien.

Publication Date

1979

Publisher

Midwest China Center

City

Saint Paul

Keywords

YMCA, Kunming, Maryknoll Mission, Fukien, Amoy University

Midwest China Oral History and Archives Collection

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