Authors

Henry Refo

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Early Life: accepts position with YMCA as science teacher at Carleton Christian College (later Lingnan University), 1920.

China Experiences: layout of the college; brief description of science curriculum; the campus mess hall; foreign faculty housing; experience with bandits; delivering secret communications for Sun Yat-sen; the Shaki Massacre, 1925; teaching at the True Light Middle School, 1939-42; interned in Hong Kong and repatriated on the Gripsholm; return to China, 1946; helping to reconstruct True Light in Canton; effects of inflation; Communist takeover in Canton, 1949; initial Communist impact in 1925; effects of Communist takeover on the narrator; leaving China in January, 1951; recent renewal of former China contacts.

Publication Date

1980

Publisher

Midwest China Center

City

Saint Paul

Keywords

YMCA, science, teacher, Carleton Christian College, Lingnan University, curriculum, faculty housing, bandits, Sun Yat-sen, Shaki Massacre, True Light Middle School, Hong Kong, Gripsholm, Canton, Communist, inflation

Midwest China Oral History Interviews

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