Midwest China Oral History Interviews

Early Life: educational background; accepts position at Hopei Women\u27s Normal College, Tientsin as English/French teacher. China Experiences: Japanese subversive activities in Manchuria/Mongolia area, 1930s; description of trip through Mongolia, 1937; cause of Marco Polo Bridge Incident, 1937; Japanese military activity before and after Incident in Peking area; trip to British Concession in Tientsin for safety; using status as an American to aid Chinese; trip to Nanking to reunite with husband, 1937; experience with American diplomats in Nanking, 1937; trip to Hankow to escape Japanese occupation of Nanking, 1937; meets husband\u27s family, the Lius; trip to Chungking to escape Japanese, 1938; as English teacher at Soviet Embassy in Chungking; response to Soviet diplomats; life in Chungking during Japanese bombing attacks; dealings with Kuomintang secret police; the struggle against rats; memories of Percy Watson; as staff member of the International Relief Committee (IRC); IRC problems obtaining medical supplies and fundings; inflation in Kweiyang, early 1940s; living in Hua Ch\u27i; work with American Library Association; work with International Refugee Organization (IRO); husband\u27s experience with Communists obtaining exit permit from Shanghai; memory of train trip interrupted.https://digitalcommons.luthersem.edu/china_histories/1055/thumbnail.jp