Teaching in Wartime China: A Photo-Memoir, 1937-1939 - Hardcover

Gulick, Edward

9780870239120: Teaching in Wartime China: A Photo-Memoir, 1937-1939

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870239120 ISBN 13: 9780870239120

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995

After graduating from Yale in 1937, Edward Gulick spent two years in China's Hunan Province, teaching English at a mission school for Chinese boys. Faced with the prospect of invasion and military occupation by the Japanese, the school's leaders moved the students to safer quarters in a distant town. Gulick participated in the evacuation, traveled widely in the area, and kept detailed journals of his experiences. Drawing on these journals and on a collection of remarkable photographs he took at the time, he has created a memoir in words and images that vividly conveys the texture of daily life during his sojourn in China.

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About the Author:

Edward Gulick teaches the history of China and Japan at Wellesley College.

From Library Journal:

In this autobiographical account, Gulick (Wellesley emeritus) details a young English teacher's experiences at a middle school in central China during 1937-39. Hired by the Yale organization in China to teach after his 1937 graduation, Gulick experienced Chiang Kai-shek's China during full-fledged Japanese attacks. The story begins with an idyllic school opening followed shatteringly by an air raid at Thanksgiving; the school is moved and the town subsequently destroyed by residents to thwart the Japanese. Fear of more attacks, deteriorating living conditions, news of Hitler in Europe, and, finally, the author's departure from China complete the sequence. Based on journals as well as memories and illustrated with the author's striking contemporary photographs, this account combines a young teacher's perspective with the retrospective insight of a historian. The book is about wartime experiences, not about teaching. Recommended for Asian collections.
Margaret W. Norton, Montay Coll. Lib., Chicago
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