Authors

Orpha Williams

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Early Life: family background; education; trip to China.

China Experiences: living at Peking Union Medical College; accepts librarian position at North China Language School; description of position, library, and personnel; general description of individuals/groups using library; joins Peking Association of University Women (PAUW) and the Institute of Arts; brief history of PAUW; summary of activities carried on by PAUW, 1930-1935; list of 44 China Hands known well by narrator; riding a bicycle to work; descriptions of several vacations taken in China; discusses lack of awareness of political/social situation in China; trip home via Russia; response to People's Republic of China; other memories of China.

Publication Date

1978

Publisher

Midwest China Center

City

Saint Paul

Keywords

Peking Union Medical College, librarian, North China Language School, library, Peking Association of University Women (PAUW), Institute of Arts, political/social situation, Russia, People's Republic of China

Midwest China Oral History Interviews

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