Midwest China Oral History Interviews

Early Life: family background; education; Wesley Foundation experiences. China Experiences: journey to Yangkow, Fukien, as a college student, to teach English at Anglo-Chinese College, 1940-1941; description of living conditions, activities, and school in Yangkow; description of journey to America, 1941; enlists in Air Force in 1942 and spends year in intensive Chinese language study; returns to China as officer in the Office of Strategic Services; experiences on special mission in Fukien; returns to China, as Methodist missionary, to teach at Fukien Christian University (FCU) in Foochow; political unrest among student body of FCU; contacts with foreigners outside mission community; living conditions at FCU; efforts to leave China due to civil war, 1949; memories of Kenneth Scott Latourette; goes to Taiwan as missionary, 1953; beginnings of Methodist church on Taiwan; ecumenical relations in Taiwan; social service projects in Taiwan, including Goodwill Services, and Plummer villages, and a noodle factory; reasons for becoming director of the National Council of Churches\u27 China program; reasons for becoming director of the Midwest China Center; impact of China experiences; memories of missionaries and Chinese Christians.https://digitalcommons.luthersem.edu/china_histories/1057/thumbnail.jp