Nursing Shifts in Sichuan

Canadian Missions and Wartime China, 1937–1951

By Sonya Grypma
Categories: History, Canadian History, Regional & Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774865715, 320 pages, December 2021
Paperback : 9780774865722, 320 pages, August 2022
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774865739, 320 pages, December 2021
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Table of contents

Introduction

Part 1: Before the PUMC Closure

1 China Calling (1914–1933)

2 Unsettling Nursing (1932–1940)

3 Shifting Missions (1936–1940)

4 The Bomb that Changed Everything (1940–1942)

Part 2: After the PUMC Closure

5 Starting over in West China (1943–1945)

6 Fighting the Foundation’s “Darling Child” (1943–1946)

7 “Our Triumphant Return” (1946–1949)

8 The Last Chapter (1949–1951)

Conclusion

Appendix 1 List of Nurses at the West China Mission

Appendix 2 PUMC Nursing Faculty to 1949

Appendix 3 List of All Interned Nurses in China

Appendix 4 PUMC Nursing Graduates to 1939

Notes; References; Index

Description

In 1943, the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) was forced to evacuate to the Canadian West China Mission in Chengdu, Sichuan. As part of an extraordinary mass migration to Free China during the Japanese occupation, the refugee PUMC transformed nursing at the Canadian mission, initiating the second university nursing program in the country. Both programs were closed by the new Communist government in 1951, and degree programs lay dormant in China for the next thirty-five years. Nursing Shifts in Sichuan offers both a cautionary tale about the fragility of transnational relations and a testament to the resilience of educated women.