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I grew up in BC, Canada, and am currently attending the University of Alberta as an M.A. student. I came to be researching Weihsien through my interest in Chinese history. Back in 2002 as an undergrad, I spent the summer teaching English in Yantai and came to be interested in the old foreign buildings that are clustered along the shoreline there.

Later, by pure chance, I ran into a old missionary who had also been at the Chefoo School and was then interned at Weihsien (James H. Taylor III). Already planning on going back to university to continue my education, I began to learn more about the history behind those old buildings that had caught my attention on my first trip to China and decided to make Weihsien the focus of my thesis research. #

Jonathan Henshaw --- Weifang research trip 2009 ---


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University of Alberta

Beyond Collaboration and Resistance: Accommodation and the Weihsien Internment Camp, China, 1943-1945
by
Jonathan Henshaw


July 2009:
A Visit to Weifang & WeiHsien



This internee list contains approximately 1,600 names and is based on documents recovered by the Weifang Gov't.; other sources indicate that just over 2,000 interned civilians passed through the gates of Weihsien, with some being repatriated or transferred between camps at various times.


They had nothing to give to each other in that prison camp December I944. They were worse than destitute. So how could they possibly give gifts to each other!

When I came to consciousness that chilly Christmas morning, I could almost feel the gray light seeping through the window just above my head. I turned to look out at the great ...


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Besides being an interesting figure, Genechten was also a tutor to Weihsien's Katy Talati, who went on to some prominence as an expert on Asian art and now lives in England. Talati describes him: "He was very jolly and friendly. Very much a 'Friar Tuck' figure who already as a young missionary (still clean-shaven then) was built ...