Nursing Shifts in Sichuan: Canadian Missions and Wartime China, 1937-1951

by Sonya Grypma

Book Overview

Nursing Shifts in Sichuan illuminates one of the most consequential additions to early-twentieth-century health care in China. 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 was hosted by the Canadian West China Mission for the next three years. During that period,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774865725
• ISBN13: 9780774865722
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"