Grace: A China Diary, 1910-16 - Tapa blanda

Roys, Grace

 
9781532609398: Grace: A China Diary, 1910-16
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ISBN 10: 1532609396 ISBN 13: 9781532609398
Editorial: Resource Publications, 2017

Sinopsis

Grace Woodbridge Roys suffered from bi-polar disease before it was well understood. Her daughter feared that her children would also suffer mental illness. This annotation of Grace's diary opens the early 1900s missionary world in China and the personality of Grace to the reader. In December 1910 Grace married Harvey Curtis Roys, who was teaching physics at Kiang Nan government school in Nanking, under the sponsorship of the YMCA. Grace had had a mental breakdown weeks earlier when her missionary father forbade the marriage. The diary records their early married life, the births of their first two children, their social life with other missionaries in China, many of whom made major contributions to Nanking life and education: medical doctors and nurses, theology professors, agricultural innovators, and founders of universities, hospitals, nursing schools, and schools for young Chinese women and men. Included is their experience evacuating during the Sun Yat-sen Revolution of 1911. Well-known missionaries of that time came to tea and taught at the Hillcrest School that the mothers began for foreign children. The Nanyang Exposition took place in 1910, too, as China was in the throes of entering the modern era, with trains, electricity, telegraphs, and a new interest in democracy.

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For over forty years Judy Hogan has taught creative writing in libraries, colleges, and independently. She has published six mystery novels, six volumes of poetry, two non-fiction works, individual poems, and book reviews. She lives, farms, and writes in Moncure, North Carolina. She was chair (1975-78) of COSMEP, the national small press association, and led the North Carolina Writers Network (1983-87). She founded and edited Carolina Wren Press (1976-91). Locally she's an environmental activist.

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Editorial
Resource Publications
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1532609396
ISBN 13 
9781532609398
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
210
Editor
Hogan Judy
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