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Social Science Asian Studies

Nursing Shifts in Sichuan

Canadian Missions and Wartime China, 1937–1951

by (author) Sonya Grypma

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2021
Category
Asian Studies, Post-Confederation (1867-), Women's Studies, History
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774865715
    Publish Date
    Dec 2021
    List Price
    $89.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774865746
    Publish Date
    Dec 2021
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774865722
    Publish Date
    Aug 2022
    List Price
    $34.95

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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.

About the author

Sonya Grypma is a leading scholar in the history of nursing and global health and an associate professor of nursing at Trinity Western University. She has gained an international reputation for her work on missionary nursing in China, particularly through her groundbreaking book Healing Henan: Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888–1947.

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