Authors

Walter Judd

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Early Life: education; involvement in the Student Volunteer Movement; called by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission.

China Experiences: perceptions of differences between American and Chinese ways of life; political situation in China, late 1920s; eyewitness observations of Sun Yat-sen's funeral journey to station in Fukien; adjustments to living in China; experiences with bandits and anti-foreign sentiment; adjustments to living in America upon return from China; medical problems faced in China; works to save American Board hospital in Fenchow from bankruptcy and failure, 1933; personal philosophy regarding helping people with foreign aid; reactions and experiences during Japanese occupation in China during the 1930s; a philosophy for the relationship between America and China; lessons learned from China experience; efforts to halt American sale of scrap iron to Japan; how became involved in national politics.

Publication Date

1978

Publisher

Midwest China Center

City

Saint Paul

Keywords

Student Volunteer Movement, American Board of Commissioners, Foreign Mission, ways of life, Sun Yat-sen, Fukien, bandits, anti-foreign, hospital, Fenchow, foreign aid, Japanese

Midwest China Oral History Interviews

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