Nursing Shifts in Sichuan
Canadian Missions and Wartime China, 1937–1951
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2021
- Category
- Asian Studies, Women's Studies, History, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774865715
- Publish Date
- Dec 2021
- List Price
- $89.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774865746
- Publish Date
- Dec 2021
- List Price
- $125.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774865722
- Publish Date
- Aug 2022
- List Price
- $34.95
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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.
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.