De: "leopold
pander" <pander.nl@skynet.be>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: archives-W-2002-7to12
Date: lundi 6 janvier 2003 12:52
Hello,
--- 2002 is already way behind us. In attachment, the
"archives" for the second half of the year. I hope you all manage to
unzip and print the pages correctly.
Happy reading ---
(I close my eyes and make a wish for many more new stories about
Weihsien written by all those who "remember")
Leopold
De: "Natasha
Petersen" <natasha@roanoke.infi.net>
À:
"weihsien" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Welcome
Date: jeudi 9 janvier 2003 20:28
Welcome Cyndy Ritscher cwritsher@aol.com
Cyndy is a cousins of Donald Menzi and granddaughter
of the interned Wilders.
Natasha Petersen
De: "leopold
pander" <pander.nl@skynet.be>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: The Italians are
comming,
Date: samedi 11 janvier 2003 11:21
>From Father Hanquet :
THE ITALIANS ARE COMMING,
For a few weeks already, sometime near the end of the
year 1943, we learned of the imminent arrival of a new group of prisoners
without exactly knowing their precise identity.
The
Japanese had to make space for them, and to do so, they had already emptied all
the rooms (bloc-43) situated alongside
the North wall, not very far away from the guardroom near the entrance as well
as near a more important bloc, n°44 and kitchen number III. The whole zone thus
delimited was already secured by interior brick walls and the only thing left
to do, was the making of two doors to lock the access, a job quickly done by
the Japanese.
We
found out, soon enough, that the scheduled arrivals into our compound, would be
a group of a hundred Italians from Shanghai.
We must remember that in those days, the Italians had
surrendered in Europe and that they were no more part of the Axis. Moreover,
their economic interests in Shanghai were enormous (the real-estate business,
navigation companies, banks etc.) and by interning the Italian company
directors and owners, the Japanese could take over all those interests for
themselves in the name of their Emperor, Hiro-Hito.
The
great dilemma for us, was ; what behaviour would we choose to have regarding
our new neighbours and we must also admit to say : our "enemies".
We were
already behind the walls for 9 months now, and it was important, we thought, to
make no difference between ourselves because they were prisoners, just as we
were.
Therefore, it was not long until we made our decision to welcome them
and help them to settle down into their new quarters. As soon as evening came,
that day, Father Palmers and I jumped over the wall (which wasn't as high as
the camp's boundary walls) and made our first contacts with the eldest of them.
That is how we met with the Tavella. He was an important banker in Shanghai and
his wife was of American birth, the Gervasi family of whom the wife was of
Belgian origin, the Rocco, with their three or four children and a few other
families as well.
All those people had been accustomed to easy life with Chinese domestic personnel, and seemed to be completely helpless about their present situation. We tried to help them the best we could with all the experience we had as "elderly" prisoners and built for the Tavella family, the same evening, a little brick stove just outside their prison cell so they could begin cooking their ample provisions of canned food they brought with them in their luggage. The first item to benefit of the brick stove, on the second evening, was a tin of Maxwell grinded coffee. They insisted in making us taste the good coffee they had brought over with them. As we hadn't drank coffee since the beginning of our imprisonment in Weihsien, we had become very vulnerable to caffeine and that is why we didn't sleep at all that night after returning to our lodgings in block-56.
A few
weeks passed, and permission was finally granted by the Japanese Commandant to
open the two doors communicating with the rest of the compound. The Italian
prisoners were so grateful of what we had done for them, that, after the war
had ended, we received a letter from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
thanking us for what we had done. .
Louvain-La-Neuve, January, 6th 2003
Father Hanquet.
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Rescuer Tad Nagaki's
birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: mardi 14 janvier 2003 3:58
Hello, Everybody,
Weihsien
liberator Tad Nagaki will celebrate his 83rd birthday on January 25. His sons are dead. His wife is dead. He lives alone. I know
he'd love to get a shower of cards.
Tad was
the Japanese-American interpreter on the American rescue mission, August 17, 1945. He was one of an elite, O.S.S. team of Japanese-Americans used behind Japanese lines
in the China-Burma-India fierld of
operations.
Tad
continues to farm, planting his crop of corn and beans in Alliance , Nebraska.
He told me at Christmas that he is using his winter days to put in a photo album the cards, letters, and Valentine's
Day cards children have sent him.
His address
is: 5851 Logan Road, Alliance, NE 69301
You might
like to read the article I wrote about Tad for a veterans' magazine this year. Go to the www.google.com seach engine and bring up the name, Tad Nagaki. His whole remarkable
story is there.
Mary
Previte
De: "Dwight
W. Whipple" <thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad Nagaki's
birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: mardi 14 janvier 2003 5:03
Could you be more specific on the web address for Ted
Nagaki's story?
Thanks.
~Dwight
De: "David
Beard" <beard@xtra.co.nz>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: mardi 14 janvier 2003 9:41
The web address is:
http://www.javadc.org/tad_nagaki_by_mary_previte.htm
Margaret Beard
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: mardi 14 janvier 2003 12:38
To find the Tad Nagaki story,
go to the search engine www.GOOGLE.com. When you
see the space asking for
the suect of your search, type in the words Tad
Nagaki. You will find the
story there.
Mary Previte
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <ncas-pas@topica.com>
Cc: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Fwd: China list from
The Old Bookroom
Date: mercredi 15 janvier 2003 0:43
Once again I am forwarding you the "China"
list from The Old Bookroom. Perhaps you
will find something of interest.
>From: The Old Bookroom books@OldBookroom.com
>Subject: China
list from The Old Bookroom
>Date: Tue, 14
Jan 2003 16:55:38
>X-Mailer:
Bookmine from InfoMining V6
>To:
dmenzi@asan.com
>X-Fix: NTMail fixed non RFC822 compliant
EMail message
>
>14th January 2003
>
>Hello from The Old Bookroom.
>
>Please find details of how to order, exchange rates and how to >unsubscribe at the foot of this email. Thank you for subscribing >to our special list service!
>
>
>ALSOP,
GULIELMA F. My Chinese Days.
Black and white >illustrations, xi + 271pp, very pale foxing edges,
attractive >decorative upper cover and spine gilt, spine little discoloured,
>trifle worn extremities, good copy.
Little, Brown. Boston. >1918.
()Lively account of experiences in China by female medical >missionary in
the early days of the Republic. AU$55.00 [Please >quote item number 435]
>
>BROWN, ARNOLD. Yin. The Mountain
the Wind Blew Here.
Black and >white illustrations, 201pp, index, good in dust jacket.
>Bookwright Publications.
Toronto. 1988. ()The story of
Yin >Hung-shun, whose life has spanned the social, economic and
>constitutional changes that China has experienced during the 20th
>century. AU$35.00 [Please quote item number 62451]
>
>CALLERY, MM & YVAN. History
of the Insurrection in China;
with >notices of the Christianity, Creed, and Proclamations of the
>Insurgents. Folding map, black and white front’s, viii + 301pp, >gilt
lettering spine, very good copy.
Paragon Book Reprint Corp. >
New York. 1969. ()This facsimile
is a valuable source of >information about the Taiping Rebellion written in
1853 by two >members of the French Embassy. AU$90.00 [Please quote item number
>62450]
>
>CHAN, SHIU-HON. (EDITED BY).
Colour-illustrated Stamp >Catalogue >of China. (1878-1949). Colour illustrations, 516pp, text in
>Chinese and English, very good copy with gilt lettering >uppercover and
spine. No details of publisher. 1992. () >AU$44.00 [Please quote item
number 62440]
>
>CHEN, GIDEON. Lin Tse-Hsu. Pioneer Promoter of the Adoption of
>Western Means of Maritime Defense in China. Black and white
>illustrations, iv + 65pp, index, good paperback copy. Paragon >Book Reprint Corp. New York.
1968. ()Discusses the Ching >dynasty statesman Lin Tse-hsu who was
one of a number of >statesmen of the period who made pioneering efforts to
promote >modern industrial technique in China, stimulated by contacts
>brought about by foreign wars. AU$25.00 [Please quote item number
>62446]
>
>CLARK, ROBERT STERLING AND ARTHUR DE C. SOWERBY. Through >Shen-Kan. The Account of the Clark Expedition in
North China >1908-9. Edited by Major C.H. Chepmell. Frontis colour map
showing >a general sketch of the expedition and a large folding black and
>white map, foxed, in back pocket showing the route of the >expedition
through the provinces of Shansi, Shensi and Kansu in >North China. 6 tissue
guarded tipped-in colour plateson black >mounts, 68 photographic plates. 8 +
247pp, appendices, index. >Large 8vo. Somewhat discoloured though tight and
sound. Small >puncture mark to spine not affecting legibility of the
lettering. >Ex-library with neat library stamps on endpapers and title page,
>light mark on spine where a library label once was. Occasional >very
light foxing. A very presentable ex-library copy in >attractive cloth
lettered in black with a black silhouette >horseman on the upper cover. Fisher Unwin. London. 1912.
>()Describes the expedition's progress with an emphasis on natural
>history, geological and metereological observations as well as >mention
of the general topography. AU$700.00 [Please quote item >number 62444]
>
>ELIOT, CHARLES W. Some Roads
Towards Peace. A Report to the
>Trustees of the Endowment On Observations Made in China and Japan >in
1912. 88pp, appendix, minor loss lower corner one leaf, neat >signature of
prior owner front free endpaper, bookseller stamp >front pastedown, little
wear to binding, gilt lettering >uppercover, a good copy. Endowment.
Washington. D.C. 1914. ()
>AU$60.00 [Please quote item number 62448]
>
>FUNG YU-LAN. The Spirit of
Chinese Philosophy.
Translated. Xiv >+ 224pp, index, edges lightly foxed, foxed and browned
dustjacket >torn with loss to uppercover and head of spine, now protected,
>contents sound. Kegan Paul, Trench,
Trubner & Co. London. >1947.
()This work places the philosophical thought system of the >author in the
wider perspective of the development of Chinese >philosophy. AU$35.00
[Please quote item number 6077] > >HSU, SHUHSI. An Introduction to Sino-Foreign Relations. 165pp, >appendix,
small bookseller stamp front pastedown, papercovered >boards with cloth
spine, minor wear, gilt lettering spine, a good >copy. Kelly & Walsh. Shanghai. 1941.
()Contains three lectures >which discuss "the evolution of China as a
political entity, the >background and existing situation of her normal
relations with >foreign states, and the past and present of Japanese
aggression, >a problem which China and all other Far Eastern Powers have
faced >and are facing in common." Taken from the Preface. AU$70.00
>[Please quote item number 62455]
>
>ITOH, TAKEO. China's Challenge
in Manchuria. Anti-Japanese >Activities in Manchuria Prior to the Mukden Incident. 117pp,
>appendices, edges browned throughout, edges damaged with little >loss
wrappers and first and last leaves, small stamp uppercover >and verso,
original wrappers browned and worn, binding loose as >spine almost
completely obliterated, contents sound.
South >Manchuria Railway Company.
(circa 1932). () AU$95.00 [Please >quote item number 62439]
>
>KOFFSKY, PETER L. The Consul
General's Shanghai Postal Agency >1867-1907. Black and white illustrations, v + 46pp, notes,
>appendices, small bookseller stamp verso uppercover, patchily
>discoloured paperback copy, small quarto.
Smithsonian >Institution.
Washington. 1972. () AU$30.00
[Please quote item >number 62463]
>
>KWEI CHUNG-SHU, Y.S. TSAO, STEWART YUI AND OTHERS. Symposium >on >Japan's Undeclared War
in Shanghai. Folding map of
the Shanghai >war zone, black and white photographic illustrations, 207 +
xvpp, >appendices, ticks to margin of one page, edges little soiled and
>browned, signature of prior owner uppercover, striking pictorial
>wrappers patchily browned, wrappers little worn and torn with >minimal
loss to lower edge lower cover, corners of wrappers and >last leaves creased
and worn with small loss to lower corner >uppercover, closed tears spine
with little loss to head, >internally clean and sound, still a good
copy. Chinese Chamber >of
Commerce. Shanghai. 2nd impression. March 1932.
>()Illustrated with over 40 remarkable photographs of injured and >dead
civilians, scenes of devastation caused by bombing, Japanese >and Chinese
troops in action etc. The 13 contributors cover such >subjects as: War
Losses and Damages in Shanghai; Samples of >Japanese Atrocities; What
Foreign Residents in Shanghai Think of >the War; What Japanese Liberals
Think of the War. Also included >are a large number of documents. AU$150.00
[Please quote item >number 37969]
>
>LAM, WILLY WO-LAP. Classic
Chinese Furniture.
An Introduction. >Many colour photographic illustrations, 146pp, 16mo (10cms
X >19cms), dustjacket. Second edition. FormAsia. Hong Kong. 2002.
>(9627283436)"Whether genuine Ming dynasty masterpieces or well
>made reproductions, an abundance of superb photographs >illustrates a
resplendence of armchairs, beds, screens, cabinets >and wardrobes, making
this book in itself a collector's item for >those who treasure style in the
form of classic Chinese >furniture." Publisher's description. AU$39.50
[Please quote item >number 58486]
>
>LAUFER, BERTHOLD. Jade. A Study in Chinese Archaeology and
>Religion. 6 colour plates, 62 black and white plates, xiv + >370pp, bibliography,
index, papercovered boards trifle faded and >little worn lower corner upper
cover. Reprint. China 1941. >()First published in Chicago in
1912 as Publication 154 of the >Field Museum of Natural History. AU$175.00
[Please quote item >number 53241]
>
>LAUFER, BERTHOLD. Tobacco and
its Use in Asia. Black and white
>photographic plates, 39pp, small bookseller stamp verso >uppercover,
original wrappers little worn, otherwise a good copy. > Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago.
1924. ()Includes >information on tobacco in China, Korea, Java,
India, Persia, and >Siberia; tobacco-pipes in China; opium-pipe and
tobacco-pipe; >Philippine and Formosan tobacco-pipe; water-pipe in India and
>Persia; water-pipe in China; tobacco chewing in Asia; snuff and
>snuff-bottles in China; and Tibetan snuff-bottles. AU$40.00
>[Please quote item number 62441]
>
>MAGRE, MAURICE. The Kingdom of Lu.
The Virtuous Reforms of >Confucius Therein. Something about his Rival Sage
Lao-tsze and >More about that Deplorable Vagabond and Clown Mong Pi.
>Translated. Black and white line drawings, x + 178pp, pictorial
>endpapers little browned, bookplate front pastedown, edges uncut,
>minimal wear covers, internally sound and clean, a nice copy.
>Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. New
York. 1929. () AU$40.00 >[Please
quote item number 62445]
>
>MARTIN, WILLIAM. Understand the
Chinese. Translated from
the >French by E.W. Dickes. Front endpapers map, black and white
>photographic illustrations, xiii + 249pp, index, lightly foxed >throughout,
most heavily edges and first and last leaves, covers >trifle marked and
worn, gilt lettering spine, a sound copy. >Methuen. London.
1934. ()Understanding view of China and her >place in the world in
the early 1930s by this well known writer >and academic who was foreign
editor of the Journal de Geneve for >9 years. AU$45.00 [Please quote item
number 11206]
>
>MONROE, PAUL. China: A Nation in
Evolution. Black and white
>illustrations, xv + 447pp, bibliography, index, endpapers little
>browned, edges uncut, binding little worn, head of spine damaged >with
loss, tail of spine little torn, title very dulled spine, >otherwise a sound
and clean copy. Macmillan. New York.
1928. >()Good overall view of China by American academic written for
the >general reader. AU$60.00 [Please quote item number 62438]
>
>MOSSMAN, SAMUEL. General
Gordon's Private Diary of his >Exploits >in China. Folding map, black and white
illustrations, xv + 302pp, >small bookseller stamp front pastedown, gilt
lettering spine, a >very good copy. Reprint. Kraus Reprint. New York.
1971. >()General Gordon's private journal of the Tai-ping campaign.
>AU$80.00 [Please quote item number 62449]
>
>NOREM, RALPH. Kiaochow Leased
Territory. Maps, including
one >folding map of Shantung Province in very good condition, 150pp,
>bibliography, index, very good in original wrappers with minor >wear and
little damp damage to spine. University
of California >Press. Berkeley. 1936. ()Discusses Gemany's acquisition and
>administration of Kiaochow. AU$75.00 [Please quote item number >62442]
>
>PAN, LYNN TrueToForm. A Celebration of the Art of the Chinese
>craftsman. Colour photographic illustrations, 151pp, 16mo (10cms >X
19cms), dustjacket. FormAsia. Hong Kong.
2001. >(9627283428)"Down through the centuries Chinese craftsmen
have >worked with clay, wood, bamboo, paper, cloth, stone and even >gourd
to bring humble utilitarian objects to the level of art. >This recently
revised edition of TrueToForm celebrates the art of >the Chinese
craftsman." Publisher's description. AU$39.50 [Please >quote item
number 58483]
>
>PAN, LYNN. Mao Memorabilia. The
Man and the Myth. Profuse
>colour illustrations, 96pp, paperback, square quarto. FormAsia. >Hong Kong. n.d.
(9627283207)"The badges, posters, books, >porcelain plates and
figures, clocks and watches, portrait busts >and other memorabilia lavishly
illustrating this book crystallize >in colourful form the cult of the
personality that arose around >Chairman Mao Zedong in the early years of the
Cultural >Revolution. The huge production runs of much propaganda
>iconography and paraphernalia were pushed to a point of >absurdity, but
a large proportion was ordered to be destroyed >when de-Maoization set in.
The surviving examples, many of them >now collector’s items, retain their
allusion and memory, and >remain visual reference points for the tumultuous
life and times >of Mao Zedong. Lynn Pan’s introductory essay on the man and
the >myth charts the rise to power of this most extraordinary of >Chinese
leaders, and his spectacular apotheosis." Publisher's >description.
AU$79.50 [Please quote item number 58478]
>
>ROBSON, MICHAEL. Opium. The
Poisoned Poppy. Profusely
>illustrated with striking colour photographic plates, many full >page,
80pp, protected dustjacket, quarto.
FormAsia. Hong Kong. >1992.
()This work brings to life a time of high adventure, of >empire-building,
treachery and trade, as it centres on a single >commodity initially
smuggled, and later illegally traded, in 19th >century China. The
story begins in the poppy fields of Bengal - >where the potent poppy is
still cultivated - and traces the >development of a trade that made fortunes
for both mandarin and >merchant prince and laid the foundation for the
phenomenal growth >of the Britsh Crown Colony of Hong Kong. AU$79.50 [Please
quote >item number 58479]
>
>WILTSHIRE, TREA. Echoes of Old
China. Traditional Beliefs and >Values. Many colour photographic illustrations, 105pp, 16mo
>(10cms X 19cms), dustjacket.
FormAsia. Hong Kong. 2001. >(9627283479)"Hong Kong has
always had an appetite for the new and >innovative - so no one is gambling
on the future of a handful of >traditional Chinese shops that are links with
an almost fabled >past. This appealing book invites readers to savour the
handful >of old Chinese shops that still remain in Hong Kong in the 1990s,
>echoing old China, its beliefs and traditions. In these shops >there is
still time to relish the brushstrokes of fine >calligraphy, to exchange
niceties over a cup of fragrant tea, and >to savour a lingering sense of
formality and unhurried gentility. >Two long-serving Hong Kong photographers
journeyed from teahouse >to medicine shop to alley seal-engravers to capture
the charm of >a bygone world, while writer Trea Wiltshire has fondly placed
>each shop in its historical and social context." Publisher's
>description. AU$39.50 [Please quote item number 58484]
>
>WOODCOCK, GEORGE. Caves in the
Desert. Travels in China.
Black >and white illustrations, 201pp, good copy in dustjacket. Douglas >and McIntyre. Vancouver.
1988. ()Travel writing. AU$35.00 >[Please quote item number 62461]
>
De: "Natasha
Petersen" <natasha@roanoke.infi.net>
À:
"weihsien" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: subscriber
Date: vendredi 17 janvier 2003 21:59
A welcome to Kay Allan Canning. Kay was just under a year old, when she and
her family were interned in Weihsien.
Her e-mail is: kay_m_allan@hotmail.com with
an underline after kay and after m
Natasha
De: "mahlon D. Horton"
<berean@look.ca>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: samedi 18 janvier 2003 1:51
What is Ted Nagaki's phone number?
We purchased a small book about Eric Lidell
written by Ellen Caughhey and published
by Barbour Publishing in 2000. It is in
the Young Readers Christian Library.
Many of you are probably familiar with it.
It says in
there about Weihsien that supplies were few and many people began starving to
death.
I remember the supplies being few etc. and our limited
diet. etc.
My question is this:
How many people do you know starved to death?
Thank you for your input.
Audrey Nordmo Horton
De: "Fred
Dreggs" <dreggs@powerup.com.au>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: samedi 18 janvier 2003 7:23
The answer to your question is that NOBODY, to my
knowledge, starved to death, but most of us were constantly hungry !
Fred (Aged
17 - 20 during the Weihsien internment. Thus, I wasn't too young then not to be
au fait with camp situations prevailing at the time .)
De: "Ron
Bridge" <rwbridge@freeuk.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: samedi 18 janvier 2003 11:08
I have the deaths in Weihsien and the list of graves
showing the names , the Doctors name certifying death and the reason No one was
put down as starving as such, we were all hungry particularly in 1945 when the
Japanese were realising that they were going to be defeated.
There are several books on Eric Liddell the most
definitive on is by David McCausland who also did a TV programme on Eric that
was widely shown in the US
Rgds
Ron Bridge
Block 13 Room 11
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet:: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: samedi 18 janvier 2003 15:44
Tad Nagaki's telephone number is
308-762-2068
Because he is a farmer and busy with farm chores even
in the evening, my phone calls connect
with him best late in the evening.
Mary
Previte
De: "mahlon
D. Horton" <berean@look.ca>
À: "Contacts
Weihsien" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: jeudi 23 janvier 2003 1:50
I tried the phone number. It was not the right one. After asking for it I found Mary's
sheet with the addresses and phone numbers from before. It appears the number should be 308-762-2968. Is that right? . Please advise. I didn't try the second one yet as we only
have cell phone at home so wait to get into town to make long distance calls on
a regular phone.
Audrey Nordmo Horton
De: "Albert
Dezutter" <albertdezutter@worldnet.att.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: jeudi 23 janvier 2003 17:56
I believe most of us were malnourished and many may
not have survived another winter, but I don't think anybody in the camp starved
to death.
Albert de Zutter
De: "Dwight
W. Whipple" <thewhipples@attbi.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: jeudi 23 janvier 2003 18:50
I remember being hungry. We kids used to argue over the crust of the bread because that
filled us up better. Our Dad (now
almost 98 years old) lost about a lot of weight, as did most adults, I imagine.
~Dwight W. Whipple
De: "Laura
Hope-Gill" <laurahopegill@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: jeudi 23 janvier 2003 21:12
Hello everybody,
I've been quiet from the scene because I'm expecting a
baby and have been too exhausted to
type! The topic of starvation
is of interest to me. My father and uncle were ages 1 and 3 upon
incarceration if I have it correctly.
As a result of
the malnutrition, my father is a full five inches shorter than the average male in his line, while his
brother grew to full height.
The theory goes that this is a result of his not
having ample nourishment in those early
early years.
My grandmother, Grace Hope-Gill, also told me a story
wherein she brought a single sugar cube
into their quarters and broke it with the heel of her shoe so the boys could each have some.
In her notes, she also states that she and the children
"nearly starved to death" and
"would not have survived another winter."
Sincerely,
laura
De: "Albert
Dezutter" <albertdezutter@worldnet.att.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: jeudi 23 janvier 2003 21:53
As I recall, milk was available for babies and very
small children, but not to the general population of the camp, which included
me (age 10-1/2 to begin with and 13 at the end). At one point during the 2-1/2
years that we were in the Weihsien camp, I was assigned by Dr. Chan to eat in
the hospital dining room for two weeks because I was so thin. During those two
weeks, I received more food than I normally would, including cake for dessert.
I don't recall specifically whether or not I received any milk to drink. It was
at least a year after our liberation before I weighed 100 pounds.
Al de Z.
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: jeudi 23 janvier 2003 22:58
During the six months of their internment in 1943, my
grandparents , George and Gertrude
Wilder, each lost about 10 lbs. My
grandmother used to say that George
would have lost more, but unlike most of the others, who picked the worms out of their wormy rice, Grandpa
Wilder ate them. I'm not sure whether or not this was a joke or the truth,
but it implies a certain amount of
deprivation.
De: "Albert
Dezutter" <albertdezutter@worldnet.att.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: jeudi 23 janvier 2003 23:27
Donald, I think the story about "wormy rice"
must have been a good-humored embellishment. As a matter of fact, we never had
rice in the Weihsien camp. We had bread baked in our own bakery, potatoes and
sweet potatoes, but never rice, as we were in North China. Our grain was
kao-liang, which I believe is sorghum. I may be wrong about it being sorghum,
as I've never had an expert confirmation of that assumption.
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad Nagaki's
birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 0:15
I am sure that you are right. George Wilder's diary doesn't mention
rice, only bread and "stew."
The worms have, however, become part of our family
mythology, which I can trace to a
letter my mother wrote after she met them in New York.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion that this was meant
as humor.
When we were in Shanxi province last year I noticed
the fields that looked like short
corn-stalks and was told that it was red sorgum, or kaoliang. There's also a
Chinese movie with the western title "Red
Sorghum" -- an ironic play on red = communist.
De: "Greg
Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet:: larvae in food
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 0:27
My research has turned up dozens of
references to the larval insects found in the food at the various Civilian
Assembly Centres. Some people ate them,
others meticulously picked them out and lined them up on the side of their
plate. Others started off by not eating
them, then as time went by and they became less particular (or more hungry)
they ate them. One joke told by a Roman
Catholic Priest is that he was going to partake of his "Lutheran
Breakfast" (Diet of Worms). I have
a photograph of a number of these larvae on a plate with food taken in one of
the camps.
The confusion
about grubs in the "rice" may actually stem from the fact that there
were large stocks in China of cracked wheat which had been sent to China by
American relief agencies before the war and had been in godowns for many years,
in which time it became contaminated by various insect larvae. This cracked wheat was distributed by the
Japanese at first to the British Residents Association, then after general
internment to the various camps where it was often ladled out for
breakfast. I do not recall off hand if
this cracked wheat was present in Weihsien but it was in the Shanghai and
Yangchow camps.
Few, if any
of the deaths which occurred in the camps were due to starvation alone. However, the very low number of calories
provided no doubt made most internees susceptible to all sorts of other
diseases and ailments, at a time when medical care was strictly limited.
By the end of
the war daily calories supplied by the Japanese was sometimes less than 900 in
many of the camps. Without Red Cross
Food there would have been starvation deaths.
Even with these parcels the next winter, if the war had continued, would
have most likely seen a wave of deaths far in excess of previous years.
Greg
De: "Dwight
W. Whipple" <thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 0:50
This may shed some light on the "worms in the
rice." We did experience that, but
it wasn't in Weihsien. It was on the
boat, the Teia Maru, the Japanese vessel commandeered from the French during
the war that we expatriates boarded in Shanghai and travelled on to Goa,
India. We had a steady diet of rice
which included little white worms. At
first we tried to pick them out but it was easier to eat them (they had been cooked
with the rice and didn't seem to do us any harm). At Goa we boarded the MS Gripsholm and went on to New York via
Port Elizabeth, South Africa and Rio, Brazil.
One funny incident during that exchange: my mother was told by the
Japanese "waiter" the last morning on the Teia Maru that she better
take some rolls (hard biscuits we had thrived on) with us because we might not
get much to eat on the Gripsholm.
Mother stuffed several of them in her purse but when we got on the
Gripsholm a Swedish smorgasbord awaited us on deck, every imaginable kind of
food. Many were sick from gorging. Mother threw the biscuits to the birds!
~Dwight W. Whipple
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet:: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 1:35
Tad Nagaki's telephone number is
308-762-2968
His birthday is January 25.
Mary
Previte
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Being hungry in Weihsien
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 2:10
My Grandpa Herbert Hudson Taylor -- over 80 years of
age by the end of the war -- had shrunk
to about 80 lbs. when we were liberated. (Grandpa was the son of pioneer missionary J. Hudson Taylor,
founder of the China Inland
Mission.) Because he was so
fragile, he was fed from the "diet kitchen" in the hospital. I still have the vivid memory of Grandpa's licking his plate -- an astonishment to me, because he was
such gentleman, schooled with
impeccable manners as we all
were in Chefoo.
He insisted on wearing his suit even though it just sagged
on his emaciated body. Good missionary ladies begged him to let
them tailor the suit to fit better-- to take it in. Grandpa said No. God was going get him out of
that place, he told them. You
know what? Grandpa was right.
Grandpa
Taylor was in the first planeload of
prisoners flown out of the camp -- the
oldest and the sickest. He was taken to
England. I never saw him again.
Mary Taylor
Previte
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 2:12
Congratulations, Laura,
Be sure to
tell us all about your baby when he/she arrives.
Mary
Previte
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: -: RICE in Weihsien?
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 2:25
I don't remember ever eating rice in Weihsien. We ate boiled gaoliang "broom corn" -- either whole or ground and
boiled lu doh -- soy beans. Can
you believe it, today I keep in my kitchen
a small supply of lu doh -- bought at
the Chinese grocery store up the street. It tastes EXACTLY the same as it
did then. Only these days I
DON'T eat it from an empty tin can with the lid curled under as a handle.
Mary Previte
De: "Donald Menzi"
<dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: RICE in Weihsien?
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 6:37
Thanks to all of you who filled us in on "worms
in rice." It stimulated me to go back to the original source, so I
looked up a that letter my mother wrote
to my dad from New York in December, 1943, where she had gone to meet my grandparents arriving on the
Gripsholm. Here's what she actually wrote at that time:
Mother and father are thin and not very strong. The
first two months they had nothing much
to eat besides bread "joe" and bread to go with it!
Mother went down to 93 lbs is
101 now Father went down to 142 in
camp and is 150 now. In answer
to a question, mother said, "Oh, yes,
father ate everything he didn't
even bother to pick out the worms but
I did!" Then she added, "Guess he likes meat
better than I do."
No mention of rice at all!! -- that was obviously a
later interpretation, based on the
mistaken notion that they had rice to eat.
So now it all makes sense, after
all.
By the way, my grandfather was about 6 feet tall, so
142 lbs was very thin.
Thanks again.
This kind of thing is what makes this group so good.
De: "Pam Tanner"
<ptanner1@compuserve.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Repatriatian
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 15:08
I have a question for the group. It seems over the period of time that
a number of individuals were
repatriated from Weihsien. How was
decision made, who got to leave and who
stayed. Was there a lottery? I was just
wondering.
Pam Tanner
De: "Laura Hope-Gill"
<laurahopegill@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte Spam: Klipfontein
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 21:31
Dear all,
Does this word (klipfontein) mean anything to
anybody. My grandmother wrote it in all capital letters at the top of a
page of notes. . . curious.
Laura
De: "Ron Bridge"
<rwbridge@freeuk.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte Spam: Weihsien and RiceMIlk
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 21:39
Just to put everyone’s memories at rest There was NO
RICE in Weihsien. It was not in a rice growing area and flour was Second Grade
Flour.
The Swiss Consuls report on the Camp in late
summer 1943 held in the National
archives Washington DC the average Per capita intake per day in grammes ( 28 grammes
to 1 oz) was
Potatoes 200
Carrots & radishes 66
Onions and Leeks 52
Greens 162
Flour 344
Rice Nil
Sugar 14
Beef 121
Butter 1
fats & Oils 20
Fish 16
Eggs each 0.25
Fruit Nil
Milk 28
The most notable deficiency was Calcium.
These rations were about halved by summer of 1945
Rgds
Ron
De: "Ron Bridge"
<rwbridge@freeuk.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Repatriatian
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 21:56
The repatriated people were US or Canadian Citizens
and left on 19th September 1943 there
were NO other repatriations.
Rgds
Ron Bridge
De: "alison holmes"
<aholmes@prescott.edu>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Weihsien and
RiceMIlk
Date: vendredi 24 janvier 2003 22:59
So is this what the Swiss consul saw? was told? fed as in line with international requirements? Was it maintained in the last years, especially when the Japanese knew they were losing? Where did the lu doh fit it? Was that from over the wall? Who actually supplied these supplies? How did the Japanese themselves eat?
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Repatriatian
Date: samedi 25 janvier 2003 3:53
Ron,
What fascinating details you give us! What astonishing count of food grams!
Did that information come from Mr. Egger, the Swiss
emissary’s reports?
Perhaps you can give us the historical facts on the
repatriation on the Gripsholm in
1943. Wasn't it a prisoner exchange?
As I recall, the Chefoo Schools had arrived in
Weihsien just about two weeks before
that repatriation.
For the Chefoo Schools, our source of calcium was
powdered egg shells.
Remember? I
can recall the exact spot in our dormitory in Block 23 where our teachers would line us up, make us stick out
our tongues, and spoon powdered egg
shells into our mouths. Prisoner
doctors in camp had advised people
to save all egg shells to eat for
calcium. I suppose the eggs came via
either the black market or teachers
bought eggs with "comfort money."
Early in our Weihsien days when we were housed in
Block 23, Chefoo teachers had built a
small brick "stove" in our dormitory where they cooked scrambled
eggs for us . By the end of our
internment when we had been moved into a
dormitory on the second floor of the hospital, there were no more eggs.
While I've cooked and eaten lu doh in my grown up
years as a reminder of Weihsien, I have
NEVER, NEVER again eaten ground up egg shells.
Next week I've arranged to tell this amazing Weihsien
stories to two groups of local school
children -- 4th graders. Every time
when I get to the part about eating
powdered egg shells, I get a loud
chorus of horrified
"yyeeeeoooos!"
When I ask the children if they'd like to live without
their parents bust instead live day and
night with their teachers for three years, you should hear the shrieks of horror .
Then when I ask the TEACHERS if they'd like to live with their STUDENTS day and night for three years -- oh,
brother!
I'll ask the children to make Valentine's day cards to
mail to our Weihsien heroes. It's pure
joy.
Mary Previte
De: "Joyce
Cook" <bobjoyce@tpg.com.au>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: RICE in Weihsien?
Date: samedi 25 janvier 2003 5:30
I well remember that no rice was issued to us in
Wei-Hsien. I also remember trying to masticate the sorghum and my mother entreating
me to try harder to swallow it because it was all we had. It was almost
impossible to chew. The peanuts which were ground into a paste by the inmates
were very nourishing and I have been told since that peanuts undoubtedly saved
the health of a lot of children as they are very nourishing. Today, many
children cannot eat peanuts due to allergies, including my own 38 year old son
but I do not remember anyone in the camp being so afflicted. My main memories
of worms (maggots) were when the Jap Officer's horse died and we were forced to
eat it after the Japs left it to rot and become infested and then telling us we
would get nothing else until it was eaten. My father showed us how to pick out
the floating maggots as we were eating. It was made into a watery stew although
I remember getting a small morsel which tasted lovely at the time. At that time
we had not had meat for a long while.
Joyce Bradbury.
De: "Ron
Bridge" <rwbridge@freeuk.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Repatriatian and
Food
Date: samedi 25 janvier 2003 21:31
Re the responses.
For Mary, The Catholic Priests/Brothers/nuns were
transferred to Peking on 16 Aug 1943
The US and Canadians were shipped out on 15th Sep 1943
the Chefoo School were transferred in on 20th Sep1943
Regarding the reason for the US Repatriation I quote
from the NY Times of Thursday 14 Oct 1943 "More than 1200 American
civilians who have been held by the Japanese in the Far East are being returned
to the United States under a reciprocal agreement with the Japanese and will be
exchanged at Mormugao the principal port of the Portuguese possession on the
west cost of India south of Bombay ( now Mumbai). the Americans are on the
Teiea Maru they will transfer to the chartered Swedish liner Gripsholm which
ahs taken back Japanese from this country for exchange.... The State Department
is trying to negotiate more exchanges but no progress has been made yet.
Regarding food calories my quote was from Swiss Consul
Eggers report. It is about 45 pages long was written about 1 year before it
reached Washington DC it along with several reports of people who were
evacuated are held in the US National Archives Washington DC - someone might
like to go along and take a look East Sussex England a bit far to pop in for
the morning.
De: "Kay
Allan Canning" <kay_m_allan@hotmail.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: archives
Date: samedi 25
janvier 2003 22:53
hello
this is a fresh attempt to get a first message into
the group it is really for Leopold pander
Leopold, I should be very grateful if you would send
me your set of word documents
containing the archive of correspondence of the group. they seem to be getting such a good press and I am
sure I shall find them helpful
many thanks
kay allan
De: "Dwight
W. Whipple" <thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Repatriatian and
Food
Date: samedi 25 janvier 2003 23:09
The date for our evacuation, September 15, 1943, seems
about right; but my memory is that the Chefoo school arrived before we left, as
much as a week or two before the middle of September. Does anyone else have this memory?
Regarding the repatriation, Life Magazine, December
20, 1943 (an issue well worth having, by the way, because it has a brief
account and seven pages of pictures) there is this explanation: "Most of the 1,500 repatriates who
boarded the Gripsholm at Mormugao on Oct. 19 were Americans but there were also
Canadian and a scattering of 17 other nationalities. They had come from Japanese internment camps in Japan, North
China, Shanghai, Canton, Hong Kong, Manila and Saigon to this small harbor in
Portuguese India. On a hot bright
morning they left the Teia Maru, which had carried them to Mormugao, and, after
almost two years of internment among the enemy, walked back to freedom aboard
the Gripsholm."
~Dwight W. Whipple
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Repatriatian and
Food
Date: dimanche 26 janvier 2003 23:37
Hello, Dwight,
My memory
supports yours. I remember the
kindness to us of two American Free Methodist missionaries -- we
called them Aunt Kate and Aunt Neva --
who were in Weihsien when we arrived with the Chefoo Schools. They
had served with my parents in Kaifeng, Honan province. I'm not sure how this all fits together.
They were
repatriated a few days after we
arrived.
Sister Mary
Servatia, a nun of the Order of Saint
Francis writes in her book, "A Cross in China," about the repatriation to
Peking of 224 Catholic priests and
sisters on August 16, 1943, and another
226 on August 23, 1943 .
She
writes, "As Father Kowalski, the
Superior of the SVD Fathers went out
the gate he called back his parting words,
Ladies, keep up the black
market!"
She reports
that 290 more priests and sisters were repatriated to the United States on September 15, 1943.
She also
reports that the Chefoo Schools group
-- about 150 men, women, and children
-- arrived after that.
Back to
the subject of food, she writes,
"There was a canteen, but the
things were very expensive. Sr. Esther
did all our buying from the
canteen. We could buy honey,
sorghum syrup, peanuts, Chinese plums,
eggs, and some fruit. Someone brought a grinder along to camp and
we could borrow it so we ground the
peanuts and put honey in it. Since that
was the only spread we had for bread,
we usually ate it dry. The Chinese
plums were something like our prunes as
you could cook them without sugar and they were sweet enough. That was
our main fruit during the camp duration, and seldom did we get other kinds because we when we did they were quite
expensive. I remember getting apricots and peaches, and not having fruit for
so long, you just long to bite a fresh
peach, but the nurse insisted that they had to be put in boiling water first."
Mary
Previte
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Repatriatian
Date: lundi 27 janvier 2003 19:02
Those of you who are interested in the details of the
Gripsholm repatriation from Weihsien will
soon be able to download George Wilder's
and Howard Galt's description of the voyage from a web-site I'm
working on. The Wilder document includes newspaper clippings tracking the
voyage at ports along the way and the
arrival in New York. I hope to have it
done by the end of the week.
Eventually,
we plan to include a set of 13 watercolor paintings by Gertrude Wilder of some of the stops along
the way. In the mean time, those of you who haven't taken the visual
tour of the Weihsien camp by going to
weihsien.menzi.org might be interested in doing so.
De: "Gladys
Swift" <glaswift@cstone.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Rescuer Tad
Nagaki's birthday coming, January 25, 2003
Date: mardi 28 janvier 2003 6:36
Comment from Gladys - My parents reported that my father, Hugh Hubbard, lost 20 pounds during the period incarcerated.
De: "David
Beard" <beard@xtra.co.nz>
À:
"Weihsienese" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Chefoo dates
Date: mercredi 29 janvier 2003 0:47
The following message is from Stanley Nordmo:
As noted by others the Chefoo contingent did reach
Weihsien before the repatriation of the Americans and Canadians.
However no specific dates were given.
The first contingent of 55 Americans and Canadians
from the Chefoo Temple Hill camp left for Weihsien one week before the main
party. They may not have arrived a full week earlier as the coastal steamer
they had boarded remained in the Chefoo harbor for two days waiting out a storm.
The rest of us left Chefoo on September 7, 1943,
docked in Qingdao on September 9, 1943 and reached the Weihsien camp late that
afternoon.
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Cc: <ncas-pas@topica.com>
Objet: Repatriation
Date: mercredi 29 janvier 2003 20:44
Those of you who expressed an interest in the
repatriation of Americans in 1943 can
go to the following new web site to get George Wilder's and Howard Galt's description of that voyage: www.wilders.menzi.org. You'll find the Gripsholm pieces in the list of documents that can be
downloaded in WP Word format when you
click on "Downloads."
If any of you are interested in what daily life was
like in Japanese-occupied Peking before
and after Pearl Harbor, you might want to
download some of the other documents, which are arranged
chronologically starting with the
Wilder's return to China in 1939. Most
are letters back to the US, but I've
included some other material about what was happening then (for example Theodore White's description of the bombing
of Chungking. Most of the letters were self-censored, to get past the official
censors, but some of them were sent in diplomatic pouches, and are more candid about what was going
on. They are all part of a larger project that will cover the entire period
from 1894 on, but I decided to start
with 1939 because I knew the material would be interesting, and I wanted to get something finished without
waiting until I had completed the
entire project.
Wilder, who was a recognized ornithologist, builds his
account around the birds that they saw
on the way, but includes a lot of other material as well. I have also
inserted in his account copies of newspaper clippings about the Gripsholm that were published as they stopped in ports
along the way. Gertrude Wilder's satirical description of
the unpleasantness of the Japanese ship
that took them from Shanghai to Goa is also included. Galt's description is
more general. The two documents
complement each other and go well together.
I will be interested in any reactions to this material
from those of you who are not part of
the family, to see if any of it is of more general interest, so if you download and read it, please let me know what
you think.
De: "Dwight
W. Whipple" <thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Repatriation
Date: mercredi 29 janvier 2003 21:47
Thank you, Donald, for the documents. The Wilder one is slightly different from
the one that was available before, beginning with March 12, 1943 instead of
March 25, 1943. Thank you for the
additions.
~Dwight W. Whipple
De: "Keyen
Yves" <keyenyco@hotmail.com>
À: <pander.nl@skynet.be>;
<pierre.ley@pandora.be>
Date: samedi 1 février 2003 4:10
Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Xin Nian Kuai Le!
De: "Dwight
W. Whipple" <thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet:: Reunion?
Date: mardi 4 février 2003 23:53
Does anyone have any notion if/when there will be a
Weihsien reunion this year, the
sixtieth anniversary of our arrival there?
If so, let's get the word out so
we can get it on our calendars.
~Dwight W. Whipple
De: "Greg
Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: Klipfontein
Date: jeudi 6 février 2003 21:53
I have come across this before in my research. The Klipfontein was a passenger liner which
saw service after the war as a repatriation vessel.
She made at least one voyage with ex internees from
the Philippines, and may have made more.
Greg
De: "Laura Hope-Gill"
<laurahopegill@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Klipfontein
Date: vendredi 7 février 2003 1:15
Thank you, Greg.
That solves that. . . .
sincerely, Laura
De: "Leopold
Pander" <pander.nl@skynet.be>
À: "Alexander Strangman"
<zandy.jen@bigpond.com.au>
Objet: Re: Summer in
Australia.
Date: mercredi 5
février 2003 9:06
Dear Zandy,
Thanks for your mail. It is always a pleasure to read you.
Weihsien, in my mind, is like a dream. Dreams are to
be forgotten --- especially the nightmares.
I have a vague image of the four of us around of what
could have been a table in a badly lit room and my Dad ceremoniously opening a
can of "Spam" and cutting thin slices of this delicious stuff for all
of us. Must have been from those famous Red Cross parcels that came from our US
friends.
After the war ended I remember, in Shanghai, our
parents running after us kids, with a bottle of cod-liver-oil in one hand and a
little spoon in the other trying to make us swallow our daily ration of this
stinky sticky stuff. After that, Janette and I making a dash towards the
bathroom to spit it all out into the sink and turning the water tap so our
parents wouldn't see it. !! Many years later, our Mother often reminded us
that, when the camp days were over, our Father said, "Never more should his
children be hungry again".
When I go to the restaurant I always look with disgust at the left-overs
in the peoples plates on the other tables. They don't seem to realise that more
than half of our planet's population is starving. When, sometimes, my eyes are
bigger than my stomach, I have no shame in asking for a doggy bag.
All the best
Leopold
I remember every evening Léopold and I were given a
glass of milk and a spoon of cod-liver oil, both tasted horrible! but I very
well understood the importance of the ritual and of course if I swallowed all
with good grace and a smile, well so then did my baby brother! I too remember
being sent to the hospital dining room and being taken care of by a Mrs.Dyer
who tried to make me swallow food I never knew existed with a thing called a
fork, I was most interested but couldn't keep anything down, it was such a
pity, I was sent back home! we were liberated just in time, only later did I
learn that I became anorexic through lack of eating (not of food) our parents
were too busy with our new baby sister...
I'll stop now, more next time, all the best!
Janette
De: "Dick Davis"
<rdavisfarm@mail.ev1.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Tsingtao Internment
Camp
Date: samedi 8
février 2003 21:39
I hope someone in the group can help. I do not know if
it is appropriate that I have joined
the group as I am looking for information at this time. Let me tell my story:
Our family was going through belongings of my wife's
deceased father, a retired Army
Colonel, and we came across a simple brass bracelet that is stamped "TSINGTAO 105155
and then 10 Asian characters Chinese or
Japanese I do not know. Pardon my ignorance. It is obviously a
bracelet or band that was attached with
a brad to the wearer's wrist. My first
thought was that it was an identification bracelet of a POW. I have
used the internet trying to locate
someone who can help me but to no avail. I
understand that there may be a connection between Tsingtao and Weihsien.
Some other background information:
My wife's father was born in Japan as his parents were
there in the 1915 era in the lumber
business. We are at a loss as to what the meaning of this bracelet is or why it was in his possession.
If any of you can enlighten me, it would be greatly
appreciated.
Many thanks,
Dick Davis
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Weihsien Internees' Repatriation Journey
Date: lundi 10 février 2003 6:34
Several of you have asked about the repatriation of
Americans, who left the camp about a
week after the Chefoo group arrived.
I've added some things to the Wilder family web site
I've been building, wilder.menzi.org
. Thanks to a series of watercolour
sketches painted by Gertrude Wilder at
various points along the way, you can now accompany the Wilders on their repatriation journey from
Weihsien to New York City aboard the
prisoner-exchange ships Teia Maru (Shanghai to Goa) and Gripsholm (Goa to New York City). You can also download these paintings to your own computer, along with travel journals by
George Wilder and by his friend and
colleague, Howard Galt.
Enjoy the voyage!
De: "Dwight
W. Whipple" <thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Weihsien Internees' Repatriation Journey
Date: lundi 10 février 2003 7:07
Cannot find the website you mention with the added
paintings. Would love to see them! Are they on a separate website? Or the same one? The "wilder.menzi.org" doesn't work for me.
~Dwight
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Weihsien Internees' Repatriation Journey
Date: lundi 10 février 2003 16:40
Dwight. By now
you probably already got the message that it's Wilders. not Wilder.
Let me know if you still have trouble.
I will, however, be giving the
"Gripsholm" series its own URL and will let you know when it's ready.
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>;
<wilder-stanley@topica.com>
Objet: Fwd: China
List from The Old Bookroom
Date: lundi 10 février 2003 16:43
>From: The Old Bookroom <books@OldBookroom.com>
>Subject: China
List from The Old Bookroom
>Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:05:13
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>February 2003
>
>Welcome to
the latest China list from The Old Bookroom.>
>
>ANG, IEN, SHARON CHALMERS, LISA LAW AND MANDY THOMAS
(ED.). >Alter/Asians. Asian-Australian identities in art, media and
>popular culture.
Black and white photographic illustrations, xxx >+ 323pp, endnotes,
bibliography, index, paperback. Pluto
Press. >Annandale. 2000.
(186403176X)(New book). "Alter/Asians moves >beyond the stereotypical
treatment of Asians as 'other.' It >explores how 'Asia' and 'Australia' are
intertwined in everyday >culture and in the imagined worlds of Australians
of both Asian >and non-Asian backgrounds. Editors Ien Ang, Sharon Chalmers,
Lisa >Law and Mandy Thomas investigate the dynamic scene of Asian >cultural
production of art, literature, media and performance >which illuminates the
social and cultural experiences of Asians. >The focus is on the experiences
of Asians themselves as integral >participants in a multicultural
nation." Taken from blurb. >AU$32.95 [Please quote item number 62669]
>
>BECKMANN, GEORGE M.
The Modernization of China and Japan. >Endpaper maps, 724pp, index, chronologies, good
copy in torn >dustjacket. Harper
& Row. New York. Reprint. 1965. ()Account >of the rapid
transformations and innovations that
have taken >place in China and Japan. AU$30.00 [Please quote item number
>29593]
>
>CAMERON, NIGEL AND BRIAN BRAKE. Peking. A Tale of Three >Cities. >Maps, plans, colour
and black and white plates, 263pp, index, >bibliography, slightly damaged
dustjacket, quarto, names of prior >owner's on front free endpaper and large
inscription on half >title, good copy. Reprint. Weatherhill. New York.
1971. >()Traces the history
of the 3 cities of Peking - the city of >Mongol splendour, the seat of the
Ming and Qing dynasties and the >20th century metropolis through to the
middle of the 20th >century. AU$55.00 [Please quote item number
63096]
>
>CLEARY, THOMAS
Classics of Strategy and Counsel. The Collected >Translations of Thomas Cleary. 3
volumes. Volume I: vi + 457pp. >Volume II: vi + 467pp. Volume III: 371pp.
Very good set in >dustjackets.
Shambhala Pub Boston. 2000. (1570627509)The >translations
included in this set are: The Art of War; Mastering >the Art of War; The
Lost Art of War; The Silver Sparrow Art of >War; Thunder in the Sky; The
Japanese Art of War; The Book of >Five Rings; Ways of Warriors, Codes of
Kings; The Art of Wealth; >Living a Good Life; The Human Element; Back to
Beginnings. >AU$85.00 [Please quote item number 63049]
>
>COLLIS, MAURICE.
Foreign Mud being an account of the Opium >Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and
the Anglo-Chinese War that >followed. Maps, illustrations, 318pp, index,
some foxing and >browning, dustjacket creased and torn with loss, bookplate front >paste down. 1st
Edition. Faber. 1946. () AU$45.00
[Please quote >item number 62886]
>
>CREEL, HERRLEE GLESSNER. Studies in Early Chinese Culture. >First series. xxii + 266pp, biblio., index,
endpapers trifle >browned, gilt lettering spine, a good copy. Waverly.
Baltimore. > 1938.
()Discusses the origins of Chinese culture and its >development during the
earliest knowm periods. AU$85.00 [Please >quote item number
4025]
>
>DE RIENCOURT, AMAURY. The Soul of China. xx + 298pp, biblio., >index,
dustjacket very slightly marked and sunned, now protected, >a good
copy. Cape. London. 1st ed. 1959.
()An interpretation >of Chinese history with emphasis on the two extremities
of its >time span - the formation and development of Chinese culture
>before the Christian era and the convulsions of the West in the >past
hundred years. The book is divided into four parts – The >Making of China,
China and Asia, China and Europe, China and the >World. AU$35.00 [Please
quote item number 20604]
>
>DREYER, EDWARD L.
China at War 1901-1949. Maps, x + 422pp, >paperback, chronology, bibliography, index, very
good copy in >dustjacket.
Longman. London. 1995. (0582051231) AU$33.00 >[Please
quote item number 63073]
>
>ESHERICK, JOSEPH W.
Lost Chance in China. The World War II >Despatches of John S. Service. Endpapers maps,
black and white >photographic plates, xxviii + 409pp, index, minor wear
>dustjacket. Random House. New York.
1974. (0394484363) Joseph >W. Esherick served in China as an officer
in the US State >Department between 1933 and 1945. As he spoke fluent
Chinese, >travelled extensively and met a number of the important figures
>of the day including Mao, Chiang Kai-shek and Chou En-lai this >book
makes for fascinating reading. AU$40.00
[Please quote item >number 63087]
>
>FEUERWERKER, ALBERT.
China's Early
Industrialization.
Sheng >Hsuan-Huai (1844-1916) and Mandarin Enterprise. 311 + 32pp,
>notes, index, good copy in worn price clipped dustjacket. >Harvard
U.P. Cambridge. Reprint. 1968. ()
AU$50.00 [Please >quote item number 36302]
>
>GRANET, MARCEL.
Chinese
Civilization. Trans. Maps,
black and >white illustrations somewhat blurred, xxiii + 444pp, biblio.,
>index, neat signature of prior owner front free endpaper, >endpapers
browned, printing of one leaf of text little faulty but >still quite
legible. The History of Civilization series. Reprint. >No details of
publisher in English. [Taipei]. . ()Theoretical >analysis of Chinese
institutions and society in Chou times. >AU$25.00 [Please quote item number
47989]
>
>HAN SUYIN. My
House Has Two Doors.
China Autobiography >History. >655pp, neat signature of a prior owner
front free endpaper, edges >marked, minor wear dustjacket. 1st U.S. Edition.
Putnam's Sons. >New York. 1980.
()Autobiography from 1949 to 1980. AU$28.00 >[Please quote item number 7127]
>
>HSU, U.T. The
Invisible Conflict.
The Behind-The-Scenes Battle >in Pre-'49 China. viii + 204pp, ex-library
with stamps on front >endpaper and title page, paperback, spine faded.
Reprint. >Dragonfly Books. Hong Kong. 1962. ()Strongly anti-Communist >this is
an account by a former KMT who was in charge of their >investigation work in
the Kuomintang Central Headquarters in >Nanking for 14 years from 1930.
AU$25.00 [Please quote item >number 62912]
>
>HSUEH, CHUN-TU.
The Chinese Communist Movement 1921-1937. An >Annotated Bibliography of Selected Materials
in the Chinese >Collection of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and
>Peace. 131pp, appendix, index, very good in wrappers. Hoover >Institution. Stanford.
1960. () AU$25.00 [Please quote item >number 62911]
>
>LANG, OLGA.
Chinese Family and Society. xv + 395pp, appendix, >notes, index, good copy in
chipped dustjacket. Reprint. Yale Uni. >Press. New Haven. 1946.
()"One of the most comprehensive >analytical descriptions of the
traditional Chinese family system >and the family's relations with society
at large: based on field >research from 1935 to 1937." Hucker 2043.
AU$45.00 [Please quote >item number 63079]
>
>LIGN, WANG.
Chinese Tea Culture. The Origin of Tea Drinking. >Colour plates, black and white line
illustrations, 154pp, >paperback. Pelanduk
Publications. Malaysia. 2001. >(9679787788)(New Book) This book relates the rich knowledge
about >Chinese tea and Chinese tea culture in terms of the origin of
>tea, its history, the methods and customs of drinking tea and
>tea-drinking-vessels. It explains the Chinese tea ceremony in >depth and
with an easy-to-understand approach and introduces the >colourful teahouse
culture, legends about tea, and the literature >and art closely connected
with tea. AU$22.00 [Please quote item >number 48939]
>
>MARTIN, W.A.P.
The Awakening of China. xiii + 328pp, index, >endpapers and edges little browned, minor
wear to head and tail >of spine and extremities, a sound and clean copy.
Reprint. Bay >View Reading Club. New
York. 1910. ()Outlines of China's
>history and her modern contacts with the West, Russia and Japan.
>AU$30.00 [Please quote item number 62654]
>
>MEISNER, MAURICE.
Mao's China.
A History of the People's >Republic. 416pp, bibliography, index, good
paperback copy. Free >Press. New York.
1979. () AU$25.00 [Please quote item number >63072]
>
>PIERSON, HERBERT D. AND DANIEL Y.L. WEI. Travelers from >Ancient >Cathay. An Account of China's Great Explorers.
Maps, colour >photographic illustrations and line drawings, xi + 99pp,
>appendices, 12mo, paperback. Joint
Publishing Co. Hong Kong. >1992.
(9620409817)"The book is designed for young people and can >easily
serve as a congenial supplement for high school social >studies courses
covering geography, history and ethnic studies. >The reader will be
introduced to Zhang Qian, the pioner of the >'Silk Road'; to Sima Qian,
China's great historian and >geographer; to Fa Xian, China's great explorer
of India; to Xuan >Zang, the great pilgrim of the Tang Dynasty; and finally
to Zheng >He, the 'Christopher Columbus' of China." Taken from blurb.
>AU$25.00 [Please quote item number 61659]
>
>SAGHANG SECEN.
Erdeni-Yin Tobchi
(Precious Summary). A >Mongolian Chronicle of 1662. 2 volumes. Volume I:
Contains the >text of the Urga manuscript, which is the best available
>manuscript of Saghang Secen's work, transcribed and edited by M. >Go, I.
de Rachewiltz, J.R. Krueger and B. Ulaan in the light of >numerous other
manuscripts and printed texts, some of which were >discovered only
recently. xxiii + 270pp. Volume II is a
complete >word-index of this work prepared by I. de Rachewiltz and J.R.
>Krueger. X + 259pp. Attractively bound in wrappers. Faculty of >Asian Studies, ANU. Canberra.
1990. ()The Erdeni-yin tobci or >Precious Summary is a Mongolian
chronicle of the 17th century by >the Ordos prince Saghang Secen (1604-?), a
direct descendant of >Cinggis Qan. It is unquestionably the chef-d'oeuvre of
Mongol >traditional historiography, ranking in importance with the famous
>13th century epic-chronicle known as The Secret History of the >Mongols.
The Erdeni-yin tobci is a continuous narrative, much of >it in poetical
(alliterative) form and epic in character, >beginning with the creation of
the world and covering the history >of the Eastern Mongols to AD 1662.
Volume III, containing a full >translation of the Erdeni-yin tobci into
English and a commentary >by J.R. Krueger, is in preparation. AU$60.00
[Please quote item >number 44713]
>
>SCHINDLER, BRUNO.
Hirth Anniversary
Volume. 3 maps, including >one folding map at rear, black and white
photographic plates, >lxxxiii + 705pp, very good copy in original dark blue
cloth. >Probsthain. London. (circa 1921). ()Dedicated to Professor
>Friedrich Hirth this volume contains papers in German and English >by
eminent scholars of the day. Includes: Central Asian Relics of >China's
Ancient Silk Trade - Sir Aurel Stein; On the Criticism, >Collection,
Purchase and Handling of Pictures - Arthur Waley; Zu >den attturkischen
Sprichwortern - F. Hommel; Altturkestanische >Volkspoesies I - C.
Brockelmann; The Life of Nagarjuna from >Tibetan and Chinese Sources - M.
Walleser and The Development of >the Chinese Conceptions of Supreme Beings -
B. Schlinder. >AU$125.00 [Please quote item number 63069]
>
>SELDEN, MARK.
The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China. xi + >311pp, >biblio, glossary, index,
paperback, minor wear and soiling >wrappers otherwise good. Harvard U.P. Cambridge. Reprint.
>1972. ()"The Chinese Communism Party was the first revolutionary >party to come to power after a prolonged
people's war. In the >party's wartime program - the Yenan Way - are the
major features >that have defined China's subsequent revolutionary course.
Mr >Selden's book directly challenges prevailing interpretations of
>peasant nationalism and the Chinese Communist movement."
>Publisher's description. AU$20.00 [Please quote item number >15184]
>
>SHUHSI HSU.
Questions Relating to Manchuria. 30pp, original >wrappers a trifle browned and
chipped. Small splits along spine >at head and tail. China Council. Institute of Pacific
Relations. > No place of
publication. 1931. ()Prepared for the
Fourth >General Session of the Institute of Pacific Relations held in
>Hangchow in October/November 1931. AU$40.00 [Please quote item >number
63097]
>
>STATE STATISTICAL BUREAU. (COMPILED BY). Ten Great Years. >Statistics of the Economic and
Cultural Achievements of the >People's Republic of China. Attractive colour
pictorial graphs, >two of which have had sections clipped from them, 223pp,
reading >copy only. Foreign
Languages Press. Peking. 1960. () AU$20.00 >[Please quote item
number 63082]
>
>SUN TZU. The
Art of War. Translated and
with an introduction >by >Samuel B. Griffith. Foreword by B.H. Liddell
Hart. Map, black and >white illustration, xvi + 197pp, appendix,
bibliography, index, >paperback. Reprint. No date. Oxford University
Press. London. >(0195014766)(New
book) "Written in China more than 2,000 years >ago, Sun Tzu's classic
The Art of War is the first known study of >the planning and conduct of
military operations. These terse, >aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in
depth of understanding, >examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also
relevant >economic, political, and psychological factors. In this classic
>translation, Samuel B. Griffith has made this powerful and unique >work
even more relevant to the modern world. Including an >explanatory
introduction and selected commentaries on the work, >this edition makes Sun
Tzu's strategic and tactical principles >accessible not only to students of
Chinese history and culture, >but to anyone interested in simply getting
ahead of the >competition." Taken from blurb. AU$24.95 [Please quote
item >number 62955]
>
>TREWARTHA, GLENN T.
New Maps of China's Population. A short >article running from page 234 to page
239 of the Geographical >Review of The American Geographical Society
of New York April >1957 which is accompanied by a large folding black and
white map >showing population distribution in China around 1945. Small
tea >in margin of map, a very good
copy in wrappers. American
>Geographical Society. New
York. 1957. () AU$35.00 [Please quote
>item number 63086]
>
>WATSON, FRANCIS.
The Frontiers of China. A Historical Guide. >Maps, 224pp, a little pencil
marking, worn dustjacket, >bibliography, index. Chatto & Windus.
London. 1966. ()A survey >of
the history of the Chinese border problems. AU$28.00 [Please >quote item
number 63094]
>
>WENLEY, A.G.
The Grand Empress Dowager Wen Ming and the >Northern Wei Necropolis
at Fang Shan. Black and white
>photographic plates, 28pp, original wrappers, very good copy.
>Smithsonian Institution.
Washington. 1947. () AU$35.00
[Please >quote item number 63068]
>
>WENLEY, A.G. AND JOHN A. POPE. China. Four folding maps, >illustrations, v + 85pp, biblio,
appendix, wrappers. Smithsonian
>Institution War Background Studies Series.
Washington. 1944. >()General
overview of Chinese history, language, geography, >foreign relations, government
and art. AU$25.00 [Please quote >item number 18142]
>
>WRIGHT, MARY CLABAUGH. The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism. >The T'ung-Chih Restoration,
1862-1874. xii + 429pp, glossary, >biblio, index, neat signature title page,
protected dustjacket >worn with little loss, very good copy. Stanford U.P. Stanford. >Reprint with additional notes. 1962. ()"The
T'ung-chih >Restoration marked the first and most nearly successful effort
to >modify the Chinese state to a point where it could function
>effectively in the modern world without revolutionary changes in
>traditional Chinese values or institutions. That the conservative
>program ultimately failed has diverted attettion from the many
>accomplishments of this brilliant period: suppression of >rebellion,
economic rehabilitation, diplomatic gains, restoration >of effective
administration, and a renewal of the Confucian >ideology." Publisher's
description. AU$60.00 [Please quote item >number 18733]
>
>YANG, RAE (TEXT).
China: fifty years inside the People's >Republic. Profusely illustrated with coloured and
black and white >photographic illustrations, 202 pp., very good in
dustjacket, >oblong quarto.
Aperture. USA 1999. (0893818623)A visionary
>exploration of China's cultural legacy, its recent past and its
>modernization. Published to accompany a touring exhibition of >USA.
Comprises the work of many photographers icluding Eve >Arnold, Owen
Lattimore and Xu Jinyan. AU$45.00
[Please quote item >number 63046]
>
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Direct acccess to
Gripsholm web site
Date: lundi 10 février 2003 23:29
I have now given the Gripholm journey its own URL address, so you no longer need to access it by going first to the Wilders site. You can get there by going directly to gripsholm.menzi.org .
You are still welcome, of course, to browse the
wilders.menzi.org site, where you will
find a set of eight paintings of wildflowers done by Gertrude Wilder in Weihsien, which you can download and print on
your own colour printer.
De: "alison holmes"
<aholmes@prescott.edu>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Direct acccess
to Gripsholm web site
Date: mardi 11 février 2003 2:10
It's lovely to see more of your talented Gertrude
Wilder's paintings on the new web sit.
I would really enjoy seeing them a little bit bigger...and the second
picture of Hong Kong I cannot print as a whole...I like the idea of the
diptych. What good work you have done,
Donald. Congratulations!
Alison Holmes
Liberal Arts Coordinator
Adult Degree Program
Prescott College,
220 Grove Avenue
Prescott, Az 86301
1 928 776 7116 X3202
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet:: Re: Weihsien Internees' Repatriation Journey
Date: mardi 11 février 2003 3:25
Donald,
What a
wonderful web site! I love the
paintings of the Mekong Delta.
Doesn't Hong Kong
looks very different today?
Mary Previte
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Direct acccess
to Gripsholm web site
Date: mardi 11 février 2003 6:41
Alison.
I'm glad you like the pictures. I had to make them this size or they would extend beyond the edge of some screens.
Unfortunately, I only know how to do this type of
thing in MS Front Page, which doesn't
have the "zoom" feature that the Flash program that my son, Richard, used on the Weihsien site. If I ever learn how to use Flash, you'll be able to control the size that
way. In the mean time, you might try changing the settings of your computer
screen. While you have the site open, make it a window, instead of
full-screen. This should give you access to your desk-top. Move the pointer to some blank part of the
screen (i.e., not on an icon) and
right-click. A pop-up menu will
appear. Click on "properties" then on
"settings" and you will see a miniature screen in the middle, and a sliding scale under the title
"screen area." Sliding
the pointer to the lift will make
everything larger.
One warning. If you slide the pointer all the way to the left, the image might be so large that you don't see the
"OK" button that you have to click
to confirm a new setting when you want to go back to a smaller setting.
It's not really a problem because you don't have to see it to make it work. Just move the slide to the size you want and press
"enter." and it will be the
same as if you had clicked on the "ok" button.
You can always change the settings back to the way you
want them to look after you're done looking
at the pictures in the same way.
De: "alison holmes"
<aholmes@prescott.edu>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Direct acccess
to Gripsholm web site
Date: jeudi 13 février 2003 1:06
Thank you so much, Donald, for such carefully detailed
instructions for the technologically challenged such as I! They were most helpful. Alison
De: "David
Beard" <beard@xtra.co.nz>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>;
<beard@xtra.co.nz>
Objet: Re: Tsingtao Internment Camp
Date: mardi 18 février 2003 6:03
Dear Dick,
I've only just read your (now 10 day old) message.
There was no internment camp in Tsingtao (now Qingdao). Anyone living in
Tsingtao would have been interned in Weihsien Camp.
I'd be pleased to help in translating the bracelet's
characters if they are in Chinese script, but as I'm in New Zealand, it's a bit
far away!
Do you have any Chinese or Japanese living in your
area who could decipher the mystery characters? Wishing you success. Sincerely,
David Beard
De: "Joyce
Cook" <bobjoyce@tpg.com.au>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet:: Re Tsingtao
prisoners.
Date: mardi 18 février 2003 8:34
I have read the message about the bracelet and cannot
offer any explanation but there was a Japanese Internment centre in Tsingtao.
The Japanese called it a Civil Assembly
Centre. My family and I were y were
there from shortly after Pearl Harbour untilc1943 when we were peremptorily
transferred to WeiHsien after being given only one hour to put some belongingsx
together. It was in the Iltis Hydro Hotel at the back of our then home at
Second Chan Shan Road, Iltis Huk. There
were 200 of us, all from Tsingtao. If I am told the name of Dick Davis' wife's
father I may be able to identify him if he was there. Amongst the 200 hundred
internees in Iltis Hydro was Dwight Whipple and his family. Also Armic Balianz
who spoke fluent Japanese and was very badly beaten up by the Japs there. Also
Dr chan and his family who now live in US. The number 105155 means nothing to
me but may be associated with our time in Iltis Hydro. Whilst it was an hotel
it was in fact a prison just as much as WeiHsien became. I witnessed a couple
of very cruel incidents by the Japanese there. Joyce Bradbury
De: "Gladys
Swift" <glaswift@cstone.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Tsingtao Internment Camp
Date: mardi 18 février 2003 15:07
Reply from Gladys Swift - I have Chinese friends in my area (Charlottesville, Virginia and Washington, DC) who translate
anything I need translated. I'm sure you have Chinese in your area. What is your area? If you give us your
address I'm sure someone in this group can
help you find a Chinese translator.
De: "Albert Dezutter"
<albertdezutter@worldnet.att.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Tsingtao Internment Camp
Date: mardi 18 février 2003 18:06
Dear Dick:
Yes, there was an internment camp in Tsingtao. We were
interned there from October 1942 until we were transferred as a group to
Weihsien in March 1943.
We were the first group to arrive at the Weihsien
compound.
Albert de Zutter
De: "Dwight W. Whipple"
<thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Tsingtao Internment Camp
Date: mardi 18 février 2003 18:33
I cannot offer any explanation about the bracelet, (we
were given armbands; ours had the letter "A" for American), but there
was an internment camp in Tsingtao. We were living in Tsingtao when Pearl
Harbor was attacked and we were immediately put under house arrest. I still have a picture of our house
there. After about eleven months of
house arrest we were taken to the Iltis Hydro Hotel in Tsingtao not far from
our home. That would have been in
November of 1942. We spent about five
months there and indeed it was a concentration of prisoners from the
"allied nations," all enemies of Japan.
Our family of six (four children and mother and
father) were in one room for that duration.
We ate in a central dining room and had freedom within the hotel grounds
but could not leave. My cousin was born
while we were there (December 10, 1942); my aunt taken out to the hospital
where a friend, a German physician, delivered her birth. As a six-year-old I remember witnessing a
brutal beating of a Chinese boy by the Japanese. The boy was tied to a post, his mouth stuffed full so he could
not cry. The memory still haunts
me. War is not nice. We left the hotel in March of 1943 and
entered the larger facility at Weihsien.
The compound at Weihsien was formerly a Presbyterian mission station and
commandeered by the Japanese during the war.
We remained there until we were repatriated in September of 1943. Are there any other "Tsingtao
internees" with additional memories?
It would be interesting to hear from them. Thank you Joyce Bradbury for your memories,
especially in your book, "Forgiven but not Forgotten."
~Dwight Whipple
De: "Ron
Bridge" <rwbridge@freeuk.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Tsingtao Internment Camp
Date: mardi 18 février 2003 23:13
I have read this exchange with interest.. Foreign
Citizens were put in one place in many areas of Chain in 1941/2 in Tsingtao it
was the Hydro –in Tientsin the Talati House Hotel. In Peking the Legation
Quarter but there were No Japanese guards as such and people put their had to
pay for their own food. Their is no trace that I can find in the Japanese
Government records or the UK Records of a Camp per se at Tsingtao. The Camps as
such did not happen until early 1943.
If this exchange has resulted from this bracelet query
with Tsintao engraved on it and the statement that the owner was in Japan
in1915 – that was the year that Japan captured Tsingtao from Germany which had
it's Far East naval interest there the bracelet is either something from World
War 1 or commemorating it. The key is to translate the characters if necessary
take it to the nearest "Chinese takeaway" to get that done
Rgds
Ron Bridge
De: "Albert Dezutter"
<albertdezutter@worldnet.att.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Tsingtao Internment Camp
Date: jeudi 20 février 2003 21:49
Ron:
My memory of the actual experience differs from your
reading of your conclusion based on the absence in Japanese or UK government
records of any mention of an internment camp in Tsingtao. Contrary to your
statement, there were guards in the Tsingtao compound, and we did not pay for
our own food.
We were prisoners, not guests of the hotel, as may
have been the case in Peking or elsewhere.
Albert de Zutter
De: "Gladys
Swift" <glaswift@cstone.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Eric Liddell
Date: samedi 22
février 2003 3:17
Some of our group may not have seen this news
article. In the last issue of TUNGCHOW
RE-COLLECTED (the newsletter for the
alumni of the North China American
School at Tungchow (Tongxien) there was
a news item about ERIC LIDDELL who died at Weihsien, article taken from THE
SCOTS MAGAZINE, JUNE 2001, as follows:
"ERIC LIDDELL - I am organising a celebration of
the life of Eric Liddell, the Christian Olympian, by marking the anniversary of
the Sunday he refused to fun. In
1942 Eric was interned in Weihsien,
Northern China, along with, amongst others, children of Chefoo School, Shantung
Province. This boarding school had a
large contingent of youngsters of Scottish parentage. Caught up by the advance of the Japanese army, they were to spend
the next three years in a prisoner-of-war camp. Many were to form a great affinity with Eric, who became
"Uncle Eric" to those he taught in the camp Sunday school and coached
on the sports field.
Many
now know Eric Liddell through the film "Chariots Of Fire" . This only told part of his life. Next year, the centenary of his birth, a day
of events will be held at the Eric Liddell Centre in Edinburgh, to mark the
many facets of a wonderful individual. I am keen to bring together those who knew
and remember him from those dark days in 1942-46. Eric died in the camp of a brain haemorrhage four months before
the war ended.
Charles Walker
18 West Colinton House
40 Woodhall Road
Edinburgh EH13 ODU
Email charles.walker1@virgin.net
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
reunion
Date: lundi 24 février 2003 0:35
What is happening with the idea of a reunion in
Weihsien? The documentary film-makers say that they are going to be
starting on a Weihsien project as soon
as they finish their current one.
Someone needs to take charge of
the reunion idea and coordinate with them so that if we really do try
to meet there, it becomes part of
their project.
I'm definitely interested in going to China some time
in the coming year, but am unable to
devote the time to making arrangements, connecting with local officials, planning a program,
etc. Is it possible to create a committee of several volunteers who would
want to go and divide up the tasks?
What are your thoughts, everyone?
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Cc: <charles.walker1@virgin.net>
Objet: Re: Eric Liddell
Date: lundi 24 février 2003 0:47
Those of you in the weihsien@topica.com group could make a wonderful contribution to this celebration by sending
Charles Walker your reminiscences of
Eric Liddell, and cc:-ing weihsien@topica.com so the rest
of us could share in your memories.
De: "Dwight
W. Whipple" <thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re:
Date: lundi 24 février 2003 1:44
I feel the same way.
But, likewise, cannot offer any coordination. Perhaps a "travel agent" could make the necessary
arrangements. Anyone doing this sort of
thing?
~Dwight
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <wilder-stanley@topica.com>
Cc: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Fwd: China list from
Asia Bookroom
Date: lundi 24 février 2003 16:54
>
>BAYS, DANIEL H. China Enters the Twentieth Century. Chang >Chih-tung and the Issues of a
New Age, 1895-1909. xi + 295pp, >notes, glossary, bibliography, index,
bookplate front free >endpaper, good in little worn dust jacket with sunned
spine, >internally clean and sound, a good copy. University of Michigan >Press. Ann Arbor. 1978.
()Analysis of several aspects of the >1895-1911 period in China, which
"illuminates some of the main >political, social and intellectual
configurations of the >post-1911 era". Taken from the introduction. AU$33.00
[Please >quote item number 63422]
>
>BEASLEY, W.G. AND E.G. PULLEYBLANK (EDS.). Historians of China >and Japan. viii + 351pp, index, small name stampand
front free >endpaper, otherwise very good in slightly worn and now protected
>dust jacket. Fourth impression. Oxford University Press London. >1971. ()The papers in this work
fall in to three main groups. The >first two contain discussions of the
dominant themes, writers and >techniques of historiography in China and
Japan, respectively, >ranging from the earliest chronicles to the new types
of work >which have emerged under western influence in the nineteenth and
>twentieth centuries. The third group is concerned with western >writing
about the history of the two countries. AU$75.00 [Please >quote item number
1287]
>
>BEECHING, JACK.
The Chinese Opium Wars. Map, black and white >illustrations, 351pp, bibliography, index,
dustjacket, neat name >and chop title and half title pages, very good
copy. Hutchinson. > London.
1975. ()A popular history of the Chinese Opium Wars. >AU$40.00
[Please quote item number 1336]
>
>BIRRELL, ANNE.
Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China. Map, >226pp, appendices, index, very good in very
slightly marked >dustjacket.
Unwin. North Sydney. 1988. ()"In this study, one >of the
leading specialists in classical Chinese literature >introduces readers to a
repertoire of 77 songs and ballads of >early imperial China. Each song-text
is newly translated and >fully annotated and explicated. Anne Birrell deals
systematically >with problems of the earliest sources, attribution, textual
>variations, meter, and structure. Her introductory essay provides >a
valuable sociohistorical context for this material." >Publisher's
blurb. AU$38.00 [Please quote item number 1626]
>
>BISHOP, CARL WHITING.
Origin of the Far Eastern Civilizations: >A Brief Handbook. Map, plan, 12 photographic
plates of >illustrations, 21 text figures, 53pp, wrappers little marked and
>trifle worn along spine. War Background Studies series. >Smithsonian
Institute. Washington. 1942. ()Discusses ancient >Chinese
history. AU$20.00 [Please quote item number 1639] >
>BOERSCHMANN, ERNST.
China. Architecture and Landscape. A >Journey Through Twelve Provinces. Translated
by Louis Hamilton. >Black and white map of China, 288 beautiful photographic
plates >captioned in English, French and German, most were taken by well
>known German photographer Ernst Boerschmann, also included are 30
>images by Chinese photographers, xxii + 288pp, edges of endpapers
>lightly browned, pale foxing edges and occasionally margins of >internal
leaves, binding trifle worn and soiled, dulled spine >patchily browned, gilt
lettering spine and uppercover, quarto, a >good copy. "The Studio" Limited. London.
1925. ()The 12 page >introductory essay by Ernst Boerschmann
compliments the scenes >from the twelve provinces of Chihli, Shantung,
Shansi, Shensi, >Szechuan, >Hupei, Hunan, Kuangsi, Kuangtung, Fukien,
Kiangsu and Chekiang, >which >reflect the beauty of Chinese architecture
and landscapes and the >way they blend in with and have been influenced by
the culture of >the country. AU$250.00 [Please quote item number 63419]
>
>BREDON, JULIET.
Chinese New Year Festivals. A Picturesque >Monograph of the Rites, Ceremonies
and Observances in Relation >Therto. Colour and black and white
illustrations, 29pp, quarto, >glossy hardback. Revised edition. Graham
Brash. Singapore. 1989 >(9971491249)(New Book) Discusses in
a simple, well-informed text >the Chinese New Year Festivals and contains
six lovely colour >plates. AU$44.00 [Please quote item number 47204]
>
>CAPON, EDMUND. AND WILLIAM MACQUITTY. Princes of Jade. Many >colour and black and white
illustrations, map, 192pp, biblio, >index, large octavo, dustjacket, good
copy. Dutton. New York. >1973. ()Looks at history and archaeological finds
of the Han >Dynasty. Published to commemorate the Exhibition of Chinese
>Antiquities at the Royal Academy. AU$32.00 [Please quote
item >number 41285]
>
>CHARBONNIER, J.
Histoire des Chrétiens de Chine. Colour and >black and white
illustrations, 392pp, index, glossary, >bibliography, paperback. Les Indes
Savantes. Paris. 2002.
>()(New book) A history of the Christians of China. Text in >French.
AU$60.00 [Please quote item number 62607]
>
>CREEL, HERRLEE GALESSNER. The Birth of China. A Study of the >Formative Period of Chinese
Civilization. Endpaper maps, plan, >black and white illustrations, 402pp,
notes, bibliography, index, >upper hinge cracking otherwise good in
protected dustjacket. >Third printing. Ungar. New York. 1954.
()"Drawing on >archaeological discoveries of the greatest importance,
Dr Creel >reconstructs in exciting detail, with many unique illustrations,
>the life of the lost city of Shang, to which may be traced the >roots of
Chinese civilisation. He then goes on to a masterly >account of the Chou
society, which ultimately conquered the Shang >dynasty." Publisher's
description. AU$55.00 [Please quote item >number 4022]
>
>DE CRESPIGNY, RAFE.
The Records of the Three Kingdoms. A study >in the historiography of San-Kuo Chih. v
+ 99pp, bibliography, >name of prior owner verso uppercover, small ink
annotation lower >corner uppercover and title page, small sello tape stain
>uppercover, paperback with cloth spine, small quarto, a sound and >clean
copy. Centre of Oriental Studies, The
Australian National >University. Canberra. 1970. () AU$22.00 [Please quote item
>number 63414]
>
>DORE, HENRI.
Recherches Sur Les Superstitions En Chine. Les >Pratiques Superstitieuses. 4 volumes. Volume II First Part. No.
>1. Over 60 colour plates, 1 black and white plate, vi + 146pp, >small
piece missing from paper on spine. Volume II. First Part. >No. 2. Over 80
colour plates, 1 black and white plate, 147 - >215pp. Volume II. First Part.
No. 3 31 coloured plates including >1 folding and 1 black and white plate,
ix + 217 - 322pp, a few >neat translations (into English) written in an
early 20th century >hand in list of contents. Volume II. First Part No. 4.
Over 50 >colour plates, 323 - 488pp. Attractively bound in Chinese binding
>- paper covered boards with ties. Boards show some wear and minor
>marking, a little light soiling endpapers, very occasional light
>browning in contents but overall very good copies. 1st French >edition. T'ou-Se-We. Chang-Hai. 1911- 1912. ()French
text. >These volumes comprise part of the Jesuit Father Henri Dore's
>monumental work on Chinese folk religion. AU$1500.00 [Please >quote item
number 63191]
>
>DREYER, EDWARD L.
Early Ming China.
A Political History 1355 - >1435. Maps, 315pp, notes, bibliography,
character list, index, >very good in dustjacket. Stanford U.P.
Stanford. 1982. ()A >history
of the very late Yuan and early Ming period which was a >time of momentous
changes in Chinese history. This period saw the >movement of the capital to
Beijing, the launching of an ambitious >naval program, the decline of the
Ming military and the >subsequent growth of a Neo-Confucian bureaucracy that
remained >the chief instrument of government until the fall of the empire
>in 1911. AU$55.00 [Please quote item number 4890]
>
>GRANTHAM, A.E.
Hills of Blue. A picture-roll of Chinese >history >from far beginnings to the death of
Ch'ien Lung, A.D. 1799. Front >endpapers map, black and white illustrations,
xi + 643pp + 8 ads, >bibliography, index, covers slightly shelf worn and
some marks, >including one small paint mark upper cover, foxing prelims and
>ads, slight damp staining endpapers, upper hinge starting, lower >hinge
split, lower endpapers browned, still generally clean >internally. Methuen.
London. 1927. () AU$35.00
[Please quote >item number 31672]
>
>GULDIN, GREGORY ELIYU. The Saga of Anthropology in China. From >Malinowski to Moscow to Mao. Map, contents,
introduction, >postscript, bibliography, glossary, index, xiv + 300pp, an
>excellent copy. M. E. Sharpe. New York.
1994. (1563241854)"The >Saga of Anthropology in China traces the
development of and >turmoil surrounding the discipline of anthropology
during the >tumultuous events of twentieth-century Chinese history.
Narrating >the growth of anthropology and its allied sciences, this book
>provides the reader with insights into the construction of >national
academic structures and the all too frequent reliance of >Third World
nations on foreign models and money. Against this >sweeping historical
background the author humanizes the saga by >pausing repeatedly to consider
the effect national and >international trends had on the life and care of a
single >scholar, Liang Zhaotao of Zhongshan University. His is a story of
>relevance for all who are concerned not only with China or
>anthropology, but with the development of independent structures >of
knowledge outside the great intellectual centers of the West."
>Publisher's description. AU$70.00 [Please quote item number >63214]
>
>HUTERS, THEODORE (ED.). Reading the Modern Chinese Short >Story. >Preface, index, list of
contributors, x + 216pp, an excellent >copy. M. E. Sharpe. New
York. 1990. (0873325729)The six papers
>in this book are written about different aspects of six modern >Chinese
short stories. The introduction and one of the papers is >written by
Theodore Huters the book's editor. Papers include Lao >She's "Black Li
and White Li" : A reading in Psychological >Structure by Leo Ou-fan
Lee, The Dialectics of Struggle: Idealogy >and Realism in Mao Dunn's
"Algae" by Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker and >Political Integration in Ru
Zhijuan's "Lilies" by Robert E. >Hegel. There are translations of
five of the stories commented on >in the second part of the book. AU$65.00
[Please quote item >number 63215]
>
>IKELS, CHARLOTTE. 23 half-tones 2 maps The Return of
the God of >Wealth.
The Transition to a Market Economy in Urban China. >Contents, maps, tables,
figures, notes, biblioraphy, index, xvii >+ 316pp, a very good copy in a
dustjacket. Stanford University
>Press. Stanford. 1996. (0804725802)This book covers "the
grim >realities of the immediate post-Cultural Revolution years through
>the heady years of optimism and growth to the contemporary period >of
reassessment, as Chinese question whether the overall economic >gains
outweigh the increased disparities in wealth and the >seeming lack of any
moral consensus." Publisher's description.The >book examines the city
of Guangzhou and looks at the effects of >reform on living standards, family
and household, education, >employment and leisure activities. AU$45.00
[Please quote item >number 63226]
>
>LAUNAY, ADRIEN.
Histoire des Missions de Chine. Mission du
>kouy-tcheou. 3 volumes. Volume
I: xxxix + 545pp. Volume II: >619pp. Volume III: 534pp, 7 black and white
illustrations >including 2 folding, folding map, index. Missions Étrangères de
>Paris and Les Indes Savantes. Paris.
2002. (2846540217)Father >Adrien Launay, archivist with the Foreign
Missions of Paris, >worked for several decades to publish the letters and
the reports >of his fellow missionaries: more than 20 volumes of original
>documents coming from the Missions of China, Tibet, Siam, Tonkin,
>Cochinchina and India. These first-hand documents supply alot of
>important information regarding the ways and customs, the >religious,
the social and political structures of these countries >during the 17th,
18th and 19th centuries. Most of these books >were published by the Foreign
Missions for internal use only and >were not for sale. Les Indes Savantes
and The Foreign Missions of >Paris have decided to reprint these
indispensable books for all >people interested in the history and culture of
Asia between the >17th and 19th centuries. These volumes were first
published >1907-8. AU$300.00 [Please quote item number 54203]
>
>LESLIE, DONALD DANIEL. Islamic Literature in Chinese, Late >Ming >and Early Ch'ing Books, Authors
and Associates. iv + 192pp, >appendices, little worn and browned paperback
covers. Canberra >College of
Advanced Education. Canberra.
1981. () AU$22.00 >[Please quote
item number 63420]
>
>LIN YUTANG. (RETOLD BY). Famous Chinese
Short Stories. xiv +
>232pp, chipped dustjacket now protected, endpapers, dustjacket >and
margins of text browned.
Heinemann. London. 1953. ()An >anthology of classic Chinese
short stories from the Tang dynasty >to Qing dynasties. Included is the
earliest written version of >Cinderella, which predates the European version
of Des Perriers >by 7 centuries, as well as other stories such as The White >Monkey,
The Jade Goddess, Jealously and The Man who Became a >Fish. AU$30.00 [Please
quote item number 10267]
>
>MACNAIR, HARLEY FARNSWORTH. (ED.). China. xxvii + 573pp, notes >and references,
bibliography, index, good in damaged dustjacket, >now protected.The United
Nations Series. Uni. Of California
>Press. Berkeley. 1951. ()An overview of Chinese history,
>religion and culture by many leading Sinologists including Agnes
>Smedley on The Social Revolution; Dominant Ideas - Derk Bodde; >Folk
Religion - Lewis Hodous; Art - Chiang Yee; Calligraphy, >Poetry and Painting
- Florence Ayscough; Letters and Arts in the >War Years - Dryden Linsley
Phelps and Chinese Literature in >Today's World - Pearl S. Buck. AU$35.00
[Please quote item number >41127]
>
>MCCORD, EDWARD A.
The Power of the Gun. The Emergence of >Modern Chinese Warlordism. 436pp, index, very
good in dustjacket. Reprint. Uni. Of California Press. Berkeley.
1993. ()"This detailed study offers a new interpretation of the
emergence of warlordism in early 20th century China. McCord challenges the
standard depiction of warlordism as part of an extended process of
disintegrating central authority, arguing instead that it emerged from a
growing reliance on the military to resolve political conflicts." Publisher's
description. AU$35.00 [Please quote item number 41087]
>
>PALUMBO-LIU, DAVID.
The Poetics of Appropriation. The Literary Theory and Practice of Huang Tingjian.
Contents, preface, abbrievations, critical introduction, notes, bibliography,
character list, index, xvi + 262pp., an
excellent copy in a dustjacket.
Stanford University Press.
Stanford. 1993.
(0804721262)"This first full-length study in English of one of the most
difficult and complex poets of the classical Chinese tradition aims to provide
the background for understanding better is why Huang was so greatly admired,
especially by the outstanding literati of his age, and why later scholars claim
Huang is the characteristic Northern Song poet.The author relates Huang's
poetics to both the larger context of traditional poetry and specific changes
in the late Northern Song cultural history. He demonstrates that in Huang's
heavily allusive and intellectually complex re-reading and rewriting of the
past, we have a crucially important set of observations on the nature of
literature and culture and the relation of past to present, as well as a daring
transformation of the literary canon." Publisher's description. AU$48.00
[Please quote item number 63213]
>
>SCHURMANN, HERBERT FRANZ. Economic Structure
of the Yuan Dynasty.
Translation of Chapters 93 and 94 of the Yuan shih. Maps, xviii + 251pp,
bibliography, wrappers stained and browned, neat signature of prior owner on
title and half title, internally sound and clean. Harvard U.P.
Cambridge. 1956. () AU$35.00
[Please quote item number 49947]
>
>SIRR, HENRY CHARLES.
China and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufactures; The Evils
Arising from the Opium Trade; with a glance at our Religious, Moral, Political,
and Commercial Intercourse with the Country. 2 volumes. Volume I: xvi + 447pp.
Volume II: viii + 443pp. Ex-library with gilt library stamps on upper cover and
neat cancelled stamps at the upper corner of each title page, original
pictorial cloth gilt rubbed and worn, lacks coloured frontispieces, lower edge
volume I browned, head and tail of spine torn, some light marking covers, cloth
worn along joints with a little minor loss. Pictorial upper covers and spines
gilt. Orr. London. 1849. ()Detailed
observation of South China and her people including description of their life
and occupations with an interesting chapter on papermaking but focussing
particularly on the "hateful" trading in Opium. The author also
declares Hong Kong to be an "unhealthy pestilential and unproductive place"
and advocates Chusan as a much better spot for a ritish Colony. Cordier
86. Lust 76. AU$550.00 [Please quote item number 63351]
>
>STOVER, LEON E. AND TAKEKO KAWAI STOVER. China: An Anthropological Perspective. Maps, 244pp, appendix, bibliography, dust
jacket little soiled, otherwise a good copy.
Goodyear. Pacific Palisades, California. 1976. ()"This book presents a view of the People's Republic
of China as the cumulative product of evolutionary change, from the Neolithic
foundations of the early Bronze Age civilisation, through the eras of feudalism
and empire, to the emergence of the sovereign nation-state. The Stovers
skilfully weave together viewpoints of different disciplines into a coherent
mosaic of the Chinese way of life, encompassing ecology, economids, politics,
kinship, stratification, religion and world view." Publisher's
description. AU$45.00 [Please quote item number 16412]
>
>STRAND, DAVID.
Rickshaw Beijing City People and Politics in the 1920s. Plan, black and white photographic illustrations,
364pp, very good paperback copy. Uni of
California. Berkeley. 1993. (0520082869)Winner of The Joseph
Levenson Prize, AAS this book was described by John K. Fairbank in The China
Quarterly as "a lucid and interesting analysis of Beijing Society and
politics in the generally confusing era of the 1920's .." AU$30.00 [Please
quote item number 52406]
>
>T'ANG LEANG-LI.
China in Revolt.
How a Civilisation Became a Nation. Foreword by Dr Tsai Yuan-Pei and Preface by
Bertrand Russell. xvii + 176pp, index, rebound with new endpapers, borer holes
first and last leaves, considerably marked in red and blue biro in Part Two
"China in Chains" and in Chinese script on 3 pages of Part One
"China in Peace", still a sound copy. Noel Douglas.
London. 1927. ()A very
interesting and important work by this Chinese author describes Chinese affairs
from the point of view of the Chinese and is in itself an indictment of Western
attitudes toward China. Notable preface and foreword by Tsai Yuan-Pei and
Bertrand Russell respectively preceed the work. AU$75.00 [Please quote item
number 63418]
>
>WANG GUNGWU.
The Middle Yangtse in T'ang Politics. An offprint from "Perspectives on the
T'ang", edited by Arthur F. Wright and Denis Twitchett. 193-235pp,
wrappers torn on spine and little patchily faded, inscribed by author,
internally sound and clean. Yale. New Haven.
1973. () AU$20.00 [Please quote item number 17846]
>
>XIANG, LANXIN.
Recasting the Imperial Far East. Britain and America in China, 1945-1950 Contents,
preface, concluding remarks, bibliography, index, xii +362pp., an excellent
copy. M.E. Sharpe. New York. 1995. (1563244594)"This study sheds new
light on the Anglo-American rivalry in China in the period between the defeat
of Japan and the triumph of the Chinese Communists. Disputing the dominant
historiographical perspectives of both Anglo-American and East Asian studies,
the author rejects the Cold War approach of Soviet-American rivalry as the
focus of analysis and concentrates instead on the relatively neglected
dimension of Anglo-American relations, detailing the significant tensions
between a rising imperial power (the United States) and a declining imperial
power (the UK) over China policy issues. What results is a new and timely
perception of the behaviour of American power in the Far East." AU$55.00 [Please quote item number 63222]
>
De: "Greg
Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Galt and the Journey
of Repatriates
Date: mardi 25 février 2003 4:34
Hello Donald,
Some time ago you sent me the accounts from your
grandfather, Wilder, and Howard Galt, about their repatriation on the
Gripsholm.
Galt mentions in his diary that 289 from Weihsien were
repatriated. I am working on
reconstructing a nominal roll for every CAC in China, and am including those
who died in camp as well as those who were repatriated.
There was a passenger list of the Gripsholm which was
published in the New York Times.
Unfortunately, it does not list which camp any individual repatriates
were from.
Do you happen to know if Galt kept a list of these
people from Weihsien? To date I have
identified about 130 of the repatriates who were from Weihsien but according to
Galt there are 159 more out there. I
have not made the trip to Yale yet but thought you might have some knowledge
about this.
regards,
Greg Leck
De: "alison holmes"
<aholmes@prescott.edu>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Cc: <info@easterntravel.com>;
<xhengwei@hotmail.com>
Objet: Re:
Date: mardi 25 février 2003 16:03
At this juncture I don't think I will be able to go to the reunion in Weihsien but I would like to mention my good friend Brian Mei who has a travel agency specializing in travel to China and Zheng Wei who was raised in Shantung and took my sister and me around Weihsien in 89. He is now in Tianjin but has made many tours/arrangements with Brian. They are both very fine, capable young men and would make sure that you/we were extremely well served. If any one is interested, the email is info@easterntravel.com and the phone 1 888 682 7038
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Galt and the
Journey of Repatriates
Date: mardi 25 février 2003 20:40
When I got Galt's manuscript from Yale I don't
remember seeing anything about a list
of repatriates. I don't remember seeing
a list in the NY
Times story about the arrival, but I'd be surprised if
they didn't include one. Have you tried the NY Times, which should be
available on microfilm somewhere near
you?
De: "Greg
Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: Galt and the
Journey of Repatriates
Date: mardi 25 février 2003 21:11
Thanks, Donald.
I have a copy of the NYT. They include a list of over 1200 Americans.
However, they don't state which camp they were in and
they include repatriates from Japan, Java, the Philippines, Saigon, as well as
China.
regards,
Greg
De: "alison holmes"
<aholmes@prescott.edu>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Phone number correction
Date: mardi 25 février 2003 21:58
Please forgive me...I typed the number incorrectly....1 888 682 7035... for Eastern
Travel and Brian Mei. Brian is
originally from Shanghai, is now a US citizen and a good human being, capable
of taking infinite pains to ensure everyone's happiness!
Alison Holmes
Liberal Arts Coordinator,
Adult Degree Program,
Prescott College,
220 Grove Avenue,
Prescott, AZ 86301
aholmes@prescott.edu
1-928-776-7116 X
3202
De: "Joyce Cook"
<bobjoyce@tpg.com.au>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte Spam: Tsingtao internment centre.
Date: mercredi 26 février 2003 0:40
I endorse Albert de Zutters email re Tsingtao
internment. There were definitely Japanese guards there and we did not pay for
any meals as we were prisoners and not guests of the hotel. We had to do as we
were told or else and our captors demonstrated that requirement to us in
several cruel ways. I am not impressed that neither the Jap govt nor the UK
Govt has any records of our being there.
The Australian War Museum has a map showing all civilian internment
centres which include Tsingtao and WeiHsien.
Joyce Bradbury.
De: "Greg
Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte
Spam: RE: Tsingtao internment centre.
Date: mercredi 26 février 2003 0:48
I have information on the Tsingtao camp and will be
including it in my book.
Can anyone who was there tell me if there were cases
of internees, who, for some reason or another, were released from the Iltis
Hydro and NOT sent to Weihsien with the rest?
Thanks,
Greg
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Leopold's Photos
Date: mercredi 26 février 2003 4:39
In the process of modifying the Weihsien.menzi.org
website I have lost the web address of
the photographs of the site, which I believe were on Leopold Pander's.
Can you please send it to me so I can re-create the link to the photos?
Thanks.
De: "leopold
pander" <pander.nl@skynet.be>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Leopold's Photos
Date: mercredi 26 février 2003 8:35
Dear Donald,
I just checked on
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/sancton/index.html and the site is still active. I
do hope someone could include a few nowadays photographs of Weihsien on a web
site for all to see. I always have great pleasure in reading the Weihsien
messages on the Topica site about all
that happened so long ago. Your new web site is fantastic and I am making a
"print" (chapter by chapter) for Father Hanquet, so that he can also
take profit of all you are doing.
Best regards, Leopold.
De: "alison holmes" <aholmes@prescott.edu>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Cc: <info@easterntravel.com>;
<xhengwei@hotmail.com>
Objet: Re:
Date: mardi 25 février 2003 16:03
At this juncture I don't think I will be able to go to the reunion in
Weihsien but I would like to mention my good friend Brian Mei who has a travel
agency specializing in travel to China and
Zheng Wei who was raised in
Shantung and took my sister and me around Weihsien in 89. He is now in Tianjin but has made many
tours/arrangements with Brian. They are
both very fine, capable young men and would make sure that you/we were
extremely well served. If any one is interested, the email is
info@easterntravel.com and the phone 1 888 682 7038
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Galt and the Journey
of Repatriates
Date: mardi 25 février 2003 20:40
When I got Galt's manuscript from Yale I don't remember seeing
anything about a list of
repatriates. I don't remember seeing a
list in the NY Times story about the
arrival, but I'd be surprised if they didn't include one. Have you tried the
NY Times, which should be available on microfilm somewhere near you?
De: "Greg
Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: Galt and the
Journey of Repatriates
Date: mardi 25 février 2003 21:11
Thanks, Donald.
I have a copy of the NYT. They
include a list of over 1200 Americans.
However, they don't state which camp they were in and they include
repatriates from Japan, Java, the Philippines, Saigon, as well as China.
regards,
Greg
De: "alison holmes"
<aholmes@prescott.edu>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Phone number correction
Date: mardi 25 février 2003 21:58
Please forgive me...I typed the number incorrectly....1 888 682 7035... for Eastern Travel and Brian
Mei. Brian is originally from Shanghai,
is now a US citizen and a good human being, capable of taking infinite pains to
ensure everyone's happiness!
Alison Holmes
Liberal Arts Coordinator,
Adult Degree Program,
Prescott College,
220 Grove Avenue,
Prescott, AZ 86301
aholmes@prescott.edu
1-928-776-7116 X
3202
De: "Joyce Cook"
<bobjoyce@tpg.com.au>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet:: Tsingtao internment centre.
Date: mercredi 26 février 2003 0:40
I endorse Albert de Zutters email re Tsingtao internment. There were
definitely Japanese guards there and we did not pay for any meals as we were
prisoners and not guests of the hotel. We had to do as we were told or else and
our captors demonstrated that requirement to us in several cruel ways. I am not
impressed that neither the Jap govt nor the UK Govt has any records of our
being there. The Australian War Museum
has a map showing all civilian internment centres which include Tsingtao and
WeiHsien.Joyce Bradbury.
De: "Greg
Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte Spam: RE: Tsingtao internment centre.
Date: mercredi 26 février 2003 0:48
I have information on the Tsingtao camp and will be including it in my
book.
Can anyone who was there tell me if there were cases of internees, who,
for some reason or another, were released from the Iltis Hydro and NOT sent to
Weihsien with the rest?
Thanks,
Greg
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Leopold's Photos
Date: mercredi 26 février 2003 4:39
In the process of modifying the Weihsien.menzi.org website I have lost
the web address of the photographs of
the site, which I believe were on Leopold
Pander's. Can you please send it
to me so I can re-create the link to the
photos? Thanks.
De: "leopold
pander" <pander.nl@skynet.be>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Leopold's Photos
Date: mercredi 26 février 2003 8:35
Dear Donald,
I just checked on http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/sancton/index.html and the site is still active. I do hope
someone could include a few nowadays photographs of Weihsien on a web site for
all to see. I always have great pleasure in reading the Weihsien messages on
the Topica site about all that happened
so long ago. Your new web site is fantastic and I am making a "print"
(chapter by chapter) for Father Hanquet, so that he can also take profit of all
you are doing.
Best regards, Leopold.
>
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Cc: <ncas-pas@topica.com>
Objet: Fwd: March
Bargain Books List From Asia Bookroom
Date: mardi 4 mars 2003 16:58
>BARNARD, NOEL. The Shan-Fu Liang Ch'i Kuei and
Associated>Inscribed Vessels. Colour illustrations, black and white
>illustrations, xxxii +
545pp, index, dustjacket, very good copy.>Quarto. SMC Publishing.
Taipei. 1996. (957638396X)
AU$90.00>[Please quote item number 63482]
>
>BATCHELOR, STEPHEN. Verses from the Center: A Buddhist
Vision>of the Sublime. Contents, afterword, appendix, notes,
glossary,>bibliography, 185pp. A good copy in dustjacket. Riverhead books>New York. 2000. (1573221627)"'Verses from the
Center' is one of>Buddhism's greatest reflections on the meaning of life,
written>by one of its most mysterious and legendary masters.
Nagarjuna>lived in India during the second century as a monk, meditator
and>philosopher. Some believe he visited the mystical land of the>Nagas
to retrieve Buddha's hidden wisdom teachings. Others>believe that he
achieved immortality and reemerged as a tantric>saint in eighth century
India. Even today his myth and legend are>alive in the Himalayan foothills.
What has never been disputed is>that Nagarjuna's verses are the
quintessential expression of the>Buddhist nation of the sublime."
Publisher's description.>AU$18.95 [Please quote item number 56194]
>
>BERMAN, LAINE. Speaking Through the Silence:
Narratives,>Social>Conventions, and
Power in Java. Black and white photographic>illustrations, preface,
introduction, contents, note on>transcription conventions and translations,
glossary, appendix,>notes on text, bibliography and index, xviii+256pp. An
excellent>copy. Oxford University
Press. New York. 1998.>(0195108884)Part of the Oxford
Studies in Anthropological>Linguistics Series this book examines narratives,
social>conventions and power in Java. Chapters include 'Ideologies
and>Social Positioning of Women', 'Dimensions of Oral Narratives'
and>'Empwering the Powerless: the Coconstruction of Experience.'>AU$21.95
[Please quote item number 61478]
>
>BERNHARDT, KATHRYN. Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance. The>Lower
Yangzi Region, 1840-1950. Contents, tables, maps, figures,>Appendix
(Collective Actions against Rents and Taxes in Jiangnan,>1840-1936), notes,
bibliography, character list, index, xvi +>330pp. An excellent copy in
dustjacket. Stanford University>Press. Stanford.
1992. (0804718806)Discusses the changes, and>how they came about, in
relations between landlords and tenants>and between the state and landlords
in the century before the>Communist triumph in 1949. AU$55.00
[Please quote item number>63220]
>
>CONNER, LOIS. Panoramas of the Far East. Black and
white>reproductions of the photograps of Lois Conner, 60pp, very
good>paperback copy, oblong quarto.
Smithsonian Institution.>Washington.
1993. (1560983310)"In their slim dimensions, pale>layers of
washy gray, and sense of perfect balance and repose,>Lois Conner's
photographs stand out from the efforts of her>contemporaries. From her
antique cameras to her technique of>platinum plating-palladium printing, she
is one of the most>staunchly out-of-step artists at work today. Her
panoramic>landscapes have frequently been compared to Chinese
scroll>paintings; both view humankind with fragile tones, as a marked>but
ultimately minor presence." Publisher's description. This>book features
photographic images of China, Burma, Japan and>Nepal. AU$18.95 [Please quote
item number 56357]
>
>DAVID, DEIRDRE. Rule Britannia. Women, Empire and Victorian>Writing. A few black and white
photographic illustrations,>bibliography, index, xiv + 234pp., very good paperback
copy.>Cornell University Press. New
York. 1995. (0801482771)This
book>examines the relationships between gender and race in India>through
Victorian literature. AU$23.95 [Please quote item number>61427]
>
>DAWSON'S. Japanese Picture Scrolls and Paintings. A
Priced and>Indexed Catalogue. Back and white photographic
illustrations,>191pp + index, very good copy. Dawson's. Los
Angeles. 1967.>()A bound edition of
an important series of 6 catalogues issued>by Dawsons of Los Angeles in the
1960s. This bound edition>includes indices to the artists and authors,
subjects and titles>of the printed books. AU$25.00 [Please quote item number
20104]
>
>ELLIS, A.B. The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast
of>West>Africa. Map, vii + 343pp, a good copy. Reprint. Benin Press
Ltd.>Chicago. 1966. ()Reprint of the
1887 edition this book by>A.B.Ellis, a major in the 1st West India
regiment, discusses the>religion,
manners, customs, law and language,\ of the>Tshi-speaking people. AU$21.95
[Please quote item number 63677]
>
>FINN, DALLAS. Meiji Revisited. The Sites of Victorian
Japan.>276pp, appendix, index, very good copy in
adustjacket.>Weatherhill. New York. 1995. (0834802880)A study of
the>architecture and engineering of the Meiji period (1968-1912)
in>Japan. AU$24.95 [Please quote item number 63678]
>
>FLETCHER, JOANN. Chronicle of a Pharaoh. The Intimate Life
of>Amenhotep III. Map, profusely illustrated with coloured>photographic
illustrations, diagrams, contents, foreword, list of>Pharaoh's people,
further reading, glossary, index, picture>credits, 178pp, an excellent copy
in a dustjacket. Oxford>University
Press. New York. 2000. (0195216601)"'Chronicle of
a>Pharoah' presents a unique and intimate portrait of Amenhotep>III, the
man and self-proclaimed god, who for nearly four>decades, presided over the
magnificent flowering of Egyptian>civilization." Publisher's
description. AU$21.95 [Please quote>item number 56369]
>
>GOODRICH, L. CARRINGTON
AND NIGEL CAMERON. The Face of
China.>As seen by photographers and travelers. 1860-1912.
Profusely>illustrated with black and white photographic illustrations
by>largely unsung photographers like Felice A. Beato, E.H. Wilson>and
Thomas Childe. 160pp. Very good in dustjacket.
Aperture.>New York. 1978.
(0893818380)An interesting collection of early>photographs of China, its
land and people. AU$39.95 [Please quote>item number 63050]
>
>HAVELL, JANE & RELLA,
SYLVIA. (ED) Gold, Silver & Bronze
from>Mughal India. Profuse colour and black and white plates, some>full
page, 367pp, bibliography, index, very good copy in>dustjacket, large
quarto. Alexandria Press. London.
1997>(1856691152)This book illustrates the metal work of Mughal
India>and is complemented by numerous plates showing examples of
the>artwork. AU$110.00 [Please quote item number 51754]
>
>KUO,
CHI-SHENG.(ED.). The Helen D. Ling
Collection of Chinese>Ceramics. Some colour photographic illustrations, many
black and>white illustrations, contents, chronology, preface,
bibliography,>92pp.. A good paperback copy.
University of Maryland.
Maryland.> 1995
(0937123315)Vol. 3 in Series. Studies in Chinese Art>History and
Archaeology. This catalogue accompanied the>exhibition of 'The Helen D. Ling
Collection of Chinese Ceramics'>at The Art Gallery of the University of Maryland.
Ceramics>illustrated include items from the Zhou, Han, Song and
Ming>dynasties. AU$25.00 [Please quote item number 63483]
>
>LEE, SHERMAN E. A History of Far Eastern Art. Maps, black
and>white and colour plates throughout, 576pp, very good copy in>dustjacket.
Quarto. 5th Edition Thames and Hudson.
London.>1997. (0500237344) AU$70.00 [Please quote item number 60626]
>
>LEICK, GWENDOLYN. Who's Who in the Ancient Near East.
Maps,>preface, introduction, outlines of main historical
periods,>glossary, bibliography, xx+230 pp.. An excellent copy
in>dustjacket. Routledge. London.
1999. (0415132304)This book>provides an unique and comprehensive
reference guide for all>those with an interest in the Ancient Near East
(between>twenty-fifth and second centuries B.C.). AU$21.95 [Please
quote>item number 56373]
>
>LI, VICTOR H. (ED). Law and Politics in China's Foreign
Trade.>xx + 467pp, index, very good in dustjacket. University of>Washington Press. Seattle. 1977.
()"Part I deals with the>Chinese trade experiences of individual
countries, including>Japan, West Germany, Denmark, Italy, Russia, the United
States,>and Hong Kong. Part II describes methods and control of
trade.>The various topics covered in this section include: discussions>of
maritime laws and practice; the problem of personal security>of businessmen
and trade representatives; China's foreign trade>apparatus; banking
practices; an analysis of state control of>trade after Liberation; and a
concluding chapter that places>"China trade" in historical
perspective with an account of the>old Canton system of foreign trade. The
appendixes contain copies>of agreements and regulations, contracts and
insurance forms.">Publisher's description. AU$22.00 [Please quote item
number>63685]
>
>LU YU. The old man who does as he pleases.
Selections from the>Poetry and Prose of Lu Yu. Translated by Burton Watson.
Map,>contents, introduction,
translator's note, xx + 128pp.,
a very>good paperback copy. Columbia
University Press. New York.>1973.
(0231101554)'63 poems of Lu Yu's peoms that work especially>well in English,
concentrating upon those that provide>characteristic glimpses of the poet's
daily life. In addition to>the poems, Burton Watson includes English
translations of>excerpts from Lu Yu's famous 'Ju-Shu-chi (Diary of a Trip
to>Shu).' Publisher's description. AU$15.95 [Please quote item>number
63223]
>
>NEWHALL, CHRISTOPHER,G.
AND RAYMOND S. PUNONGBAYAN. (EDS.)>Fire>and Mud. Eruptions and Lahars of
Mount Pinatubo, Philipines.>Colour photographic illustrations, maps, charts,
diskette,>contents, authors and their affliations, 1128pp., quarto, a
very>good copy in dustjacket, top right corner of dustjacket is>slightly
torn. University of Washington Press. Seattle.
1996.>(0295975857)"'Fire and Mud' is a comprehensive document of
the>awakening of a volcano after a 500 year sleep. Its 62
technical>papers tell the scientific and human story of the 1991
eruption>of Mount Pinatubo and the events surrounding it."
Publisher's>description.A diskette accompanies Hoblitt et al
article>'Computer visualizationof earthquake hypocentres in Newhall'
and>Punongbayan's article "Eruptions and Lahars of Mount
Pinatubo.">AU$38.00 [Please quote item number 63488]
>
>OVENDEN, RICHARD. John Thomson (1837 - 1921). Black and
white>photographic plates, contents, foreword, introduction,
notes,>bibliography, glossary of photographic terms, index, 224pp.
An>excellent copy in a dustjacket.
National Library of Scotland.>Edinburgh. 1997. (0114958335)"John Thomson was one of the
most>influential photographers of the nineteenth century. He>photographed
the royal court in Siam and became the first>photographer to document the
temple complex at Angkor in>Cambodia. His major project however, was
undertaken in China,>where he was the first photographer to systematically
document>all aspects of the country: the landscape,
industry,>architecture, street people and governing classes. He returned
to>Britain in 1872, publishing his photographs in a number of books>and
articles which established his reputation as a traveller,>photographer and
authority on China." Publisher's description.>This book has chapters on
John Thomson and his work as well as>China. AU$44.00 [Please quote item
number 63012]
>
>REES, HELEN. Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern China.
CD>of recordings, map, some black and white illustrations, segments>of
music score, contents, appendices (Dongjing Scriptures of>Lijiang County,
Temple Interiors for Dongjing Ceremonies in Dayan>Town, Chinese texts and
glossary of Chinese characters), notes,>bibliography, discography,
videography, index, 280pp. a paperback>copy with crease in top right hand
corner, otherwise in good>condition.
Oxford University Press. New
York. 2000.>(0195129504)"Based
on extensive fieldwork and documentary>research, this book is a chronicle of
the musical history of>Lijiang County in Yunnan province, southwest
China. It focuses>on Dongjing music,
a repetoire borrowed from China's Han ethnic>majority by the indigenous Naxi
inhabitants of Lijiang County.>Used before 1949 in ceremonies of the
Confucian-influenced ritual>Dongjing associations as well as in secular
entertainment,>Dongjing music was a key example of the Naxi
minority's>assimilation of Han culture over the last 200 years. Prized
for>its complexity and elegance, it helped define social>relationships,
as proficiency in the music and membership in the>Dongjing associations
often signified high social status and>cultutral refinement."
Publisher's description. AU$21.95 [Please>quote item number 63681]
>
>REES, HELEN. Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern
China. CD>of recordings, map, some bla63681ck and white
illustrations,>segments of music score, contents, appendices
(Dongjing>Scriptures of Lijiang County, Temple Interiors for
Dongjing>Ceremonies in Dayan Town, Chinese texts and glossary of
Chinese>characters), notes, bibliography, discography,
videography,>index,280pp. a very good paperback copy. Oxford University>Press. New York.
2000. (0195129504)"Based on extensive>fieldwork and documentary
research, this book is a chronicle of>the musical history of Lijiang County
in Yunnan province,>southwest China.
It focuses on Dongjing music, a repetoire>borrowed from China's Han
ethnic majority by the indigenous Naxi>inhabitants of Lijiang County. Used
before 1949 in ceremonies of>the Confucian-influenced ritual Dongjing
associations as well as>in secular entertainment, Dongjing music was a key
example of the>Naxi minority's assimilation of Han culture over the last
200>years. Prized for its complexity and elegance, it helped
define>social relationships, as proficiency in the music and
membership>in the Dongjing associations often signified high social
status>and cultutral refinement." Publisher's description.
AU$21.95>[Please quote item number 56324]
>
>RODGERS, SUSAN (ED. AND
TRANSLATOR). Telling lives,
telling>histories. Autobiography and Historical Imagination in
Modern>Indonesia: "Aka dan Toba" by P. Pospos and "Semasa
Kecil di>Kampung." Maps, contents, glossary, 348pp, an excellent
paperback>copy. University of
California Press. Berkeley. 1995.>(0520085477)"These two
memoirs, superbly rendered into English>for the first time, provide unique
windows into the Sumatran>past, in particular, and the early
twentieth-century history of>Southeast Asia, in general. Originally
published soon after the>Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the
island chain from>Dutch control, these unusually insightful narratives
recall the>authors' boyhoods in rural Toba Batak and Minangkabau
villages.>In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the
writers>inevitably tell the story of their country's turbulent
journey>from colonial subjugation through revolution to
independence.>Susan Rodgers's perceptive introduction illuminates
the>importance of autobiography in developing historical>consciousness
and imagining a national future." Publisher's>description. AU$21.95
[Please quote item number 63664]
>
>RUTHVEN, MALISE. Freya Stark in Southern Arabia. Black
and>white photographic plates, maps, contents, introduction,>chronology,
120pp. An excellent copy in a dustjacket.
Garnet>Reading, UK .
(1859640052)Dame Freya Stark was acclaimed for her>intrepid explorations in
Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Greece Turkey,>China, Afghanistan, Nepal and Kashmirin
the 20th century. She>wrote prolifically about her travels and her talent
for>befriending local people gave her photographs an unique>persepctive.
On her death she left her collection of 50,000>photographs to St Antony's
College Middle East Centre at Oxford>University. The majority of the
negatives have never been printed>and only a fraction of the photographs
were printed in her>lifetime. AU$21.95 [Please quote item number 56374]
>
>SALOMON, RICHARD. Ancient Buddhist scrolls from Gandhara.
The>British library Kharosthi fragments. Coloured and black and
white>illustrations, foreword by the Dalai Lama, preface, notes on
the>system of transcription and citation, glossary, bibliography,>index,
pp xx + 274, quarto, very good paperback copy.
Washington>University Press.
Seattle. 1999. (0295977698)"As
the Dead Sea>scrolls have changed our understanding of Judaism and
early>Christianity, so a set of twenty-nine scrolls recently acquired>by
the British Library promise to provide a window into a crucial>phase of the
history of Buddhism in India. The fragmentary birch>bark scrolls, which were
found inside one of a set of inscribed>clay pots, are written in the
Gandhari Prakrit language and in>Kharosthi script. Dating from around the
beginning of the>Christian era, the scrolls are probably the oldest
Buddhist>manuscripts ever discovered.>>The manuscripts and pots come
from a region known in ancient>times as Gandhara, corresponding to modern
northern Pakistan and>eastern Afghanistan. At the peak of its influence,
Gandhara was>the capital of a series of wealthy and powerful dynasties
and>became one of the world's most important centers of Buddhism and>the
gateway through which Buddhism was transmitted from India to>China and other
parts of Asia. Gandhara was also a principal>point of contact between India
and the Western world. Despite>abundant archeological evidence of Gandhara's
thriving culture,>until now there has been virtually no documentary evidence
of its>literary and religious canon.
>
>This volume introduces a
groundbreaking project to decipher and>interpret the Gandhäran texts. It
provides a detailed description>of the manuscripts and a survey of their
contents, along with a>preliminary evaluation of their significance. Also
included are>representative samples of texts and translations.
>
>This discovery sheds new
light on the regional character of>early Indian Buddhist traditions, the
process of the formation of>standardized written canons, and the
transmission of Buddhism>into central and east Asia. Ancient Buddhist
Scrolls from>Gandhara will appeal to a broad audience with interests
in>Buddhism, comparative religion, and Asian languages."
Publisher's>description. AU$35.00 [Please quote item number 63659]
>
>SAWASA. Sawasa. Japanese export art in black and
gold. 1650>-1800. Map, profusely illustrated with black and
gold>photographic illustrations also some colour and some black and>white
illustrations, black and gold endpapers. Bibliography,>index, appendix and
notes. Rijks Museum. Amsterdam.
1998.>()Published to accompany exhibition 'Sawasa, Japanese export
art>in black and gold' which provided an overview of Sawasa wares>from
the 17th and 18th centuries. Sawasa or shakudo artefacts was>the name given
to objects made by Asian artists and craftsmen>adopting European models with
Japanese and Chinese materials and>decorative motives. Includes hangers,
small swords, containers>for tobacco, drinking utensils, incense burners and
containers.>AU$24.95 [Please quote item number 63056]
>
>SHIMIZU, YUTAKA. Nara Picture Books. Translated. 10 black
and>white and colour plates, 2 Japanese paper samples tipped in, 46pp>+
10pl, quarto, dustjacket and title page little browned, very>attractive
Japanese binding, good in slip case. A lovely book.>Dawsons. Los Angeles. Limited edition of 750 copies. 1960.>()Describes the
bibliographical features, nomenclature, book>titles, history, paintings and
calligraphy in the books and the>literary significance. AU$44.00 [Please
quote item number>15462]
>
>[SOUTHEAST ASIAN
ART]. Southeast Asian Art Today.
Profusely>illustrated with colour plates, many full page,
256pp,>dustjacket, square quarto.
Roeder Publications.
Singapore.>1996. (9810060025)This lavishly illustrated and
authoritative>volume introduces the works and ideas of the most
promising>artists of the region. Includes chapters on Indonesia,
Malaysia,>Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. AU$40.00 [Please quote
item>number 63480]
>
>SUH, DAE-SOOK AND
CHAE-JIN LEE. (ED). Political
Leadership in>Korea. 272pp,good copy in slightly soiled dustjacket. Uni. of>Washington Press. Seattle.
1976. ()"Included are studies of the>traditional leadership of
the Yi dynasty as well as contemporary>legislative, party, and bureaucratic
leadership, and an>evaluation of the people's views of the comtemporary
political>leaders in South Korea. In addition, there are two studies of
the>Communist system in North Korea." (From the
publisher's>description). AU$22.00 [Please quote item number 63684]
>
>TREAT, JOHN WHITTIER Great Mirrors Shattered:
Homosexuality,>Orientalism, and Japan. Contents, preface, notes, xii +
242pp,;>an excellent copy in a dustjacket.
Oxford University Press.
New>York. 1999. (0195109236)"'Great
Mirrors Shattered' is a>compelling memoir of a gay man thoroughly familiar
with the>Japanese homosexual
underground, a man anxious for his own health>and unsure of the relationship
he has left behind in the United>States.It is also a highly self-aware
analysis of Orientalism,>which the author defines as 'the Western study of
everywhere>else,' and an exploration of how sexual identity
conditions>knowledge across cultures. Jump-cutting between such texts
as>Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice', Pierre Loti's
"Madame>Chrysantheme, Saikaku's ' The Great Mirror of Male Love',
the>writings of Roland Barthes, newspaper headlines, and his>experiences
during a previous stay in Japan, Treat creates an>intricately textured
account of the problems inherent in how we>'know' another culture. The
questions of self and other,>difference and sameness, time past and time
present, America and>Japan are explained here with rare intelligence and
unabashed>personal disclosure." Publisher's comments. AU$19.95
[Please>quote item number 56325]
>
>WOODSON, YOKO AND RICHARD
L. MELLOTT. Exquisite pursuits.
Japanese Art in the Harry G.C. Packard Collection. Colour and>black and
white plates, 132pp, quarto, very good paperback copy.>Asian Art Museum of
San Francisco San Francisco. 1994.>(0295973528)This important collection
spans over 800 years of>Japanese culture from the late 11th to the
mid-nineteenth>centuries and includes sculptures, masks, scrolls, paintings
and>screens. AU$22.00 [Please quote item
number 63687]
>
>ZEILEIS, FRIEDRICH
GEORG. Ausgewahlte Chinesische Jade
Aus>Sibeben Jahrtausenden. Clearly
illustrated with colour>photographic illustrations, foreword and
introduction in both>German and English, chronological table, glossary,
contents,>provenance, bibliography, xlv + 466pp, quarto, an excellent
copy.> Gallspach. c 1994. (3800035693)Although primary in
German this>book has an English preface (Selected Chinese Jade from
Seven>Millenia) as well as an introduction by the author. There is
also>an English summary description of each of the 351 pieces>described. AU$145.00 [Please quote item number 63660]
>
ZWOLLE, WAANDERS UITGEVERS. Facing
West. Oriental Jews ofCentral Asia and the Caucasus. Map, colour and black and
white>photographic plates, 128pp, paperback, quarto. 2nd Edition. University of Washington Press. Seattle.
1999. (9040092168) AU$25.00
[Please quote item number 63686]
>
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>ANDERSSON, J.
GUNNAR. Children of the Yellow Earth.
Studies in>Prehistoric China. Trans. Map, illustrations, xxi + 345pp,
covers>and lower edges marked, otherwise a good copy. The MIT Press.>Cambridge. reprint nd
[c. 1972] () AU$28.00 [Please
quote item>number 19108]
>
BARME, GEREMIE R. In The
Red. On Contemporary Chinese Culture.
Black and white illustrations, xxii + 512pp, notes, glossary, index, bookplate front free endpaper,
otherwise very good in dustjacket. Columbia University Press. New York.
1999. ()This>works provides a narrative history of Chinese culture
during the>past twenty years, exposing the complex relationship between>"official"
culture (produced, supported and sanctioned by the>government) and
"nonoffical" or countercultures (especially among>urban youth and
dissidents). AU$35.00 [Please quote item number>63720]
>
>BRANDT, CONRAD. Stalin's Failure in China. xiv + 226pp,
index,>little marked, paperback, minor wear covers. Reprint. Norton.>New
York. 1966. () AU$20.00 [Please quote
item number 41307]
>
>(CHINA - ANTIQUE
MAP) Johnson's China. Handcoloured map
of>China with insets of the harbor and island of Amoy and a map of>Canton
and adjacent islands. Image size 33 x 39.5cm including>black and white decorative
border. Some light even browning. An>attractive map. No date. (c. 1866). () AU$175.00 [Please
quote>item number 42443] If you would like to see an image of this
item>please visit our web site http://www.OldBookroom.com
>
>[CHINESE POSTER]. Chinese Poster of a Shanghai
Beauty>advertising cigarettes. Full colour poster advertising Ruby
Queen>Magnum cigarettes from W.D & H.O Wells, Bristol & London.
The>poster features a young Chinese beauty, touching the strand of>pearls
around her neck, standing in a garden with a blossom tree>in the background.
Beneath the image is a picture of a packet of>cigarettes. These image is
surrounded by a decorative border.
>
>Image measures
approximately 76 x 50.5cm. Oxidised metal bands>upper and lower edges, edges
trifle torn with minor loss, three>tears have old amateur repairs with
newspaper extending 7cm at>the most extreme onto the border of the image,
scarcely visible>water marks, few small holes lower edge and in the lady's
hair,>light brown spotting, minor wear and barely visible browning
to>image. Still a clear and attractive image. No publication>details.
[circa 1920-30's]. () AU$350.00 [Please quote item>number 59981] If
you would like to see an image of this item please>visit our web site
http://www.OldBookroom.com
>
>[CHINESE POSTER]. Chinese Poster of a Shanghai Beauty
with>three children advertising cigarettes. Full colour
poster>advertising cigarettes from the Chinese [Long Life and
Abundance]>Tabacco Company. The poster features a young Chinese beauty in
a>red qipao with three children. She is holding the youngest of
the>children in her arms while the other two children stand at
either>side of her, a tree and house can be seen in the
background.>Beneath the image is text in Chinese which describes the various>brands
of cigarettes available, including Golden Goose, Golden>Bird, Happiness,
Save the Country and Fame brands.
>
>Image measures
approximately 77 x 53cm. Oxidised metal bands>upper and lower edges, lower
band reattached at either end with>amateur stitching, one tear lower left
edges also repaired with>amateur stitching, two closed tears lower edge of
poster repaired>on the reverse with paper, few small tears at top of
image>repaired on the reverse with sello tape, three corners reinforced>with
paper and one with sello tape, edges trifle torn with minor>loss, few small
holes lower edge, light brown spotting, minor>creasing. Still a clear and
attractive image. No
publication>details. [circa
1920-30's]. () AU$350.00 [Please quote item>number 59983] If you would like
to see an image of this item please>visit our web site http://www.OldBookroom.com
>>CLUBB, O.
EDMUND. Communism in China As Reported
from Hankow>in>1932. Map, illustrations, viii + 123pp, index, good in
slightly>torn dustjacket, tall octavo.
Columbia U.P. New York. 1968,>()The author was vice consul in the
US Consulate-General at>Hankow in 1932 when he submitted this report.
AU$35.00 [Please>quote item number 20178]
>
>COLLIS, MAURICE. The Motherly and Auspicious. Being the
Life>of>the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi in the Form of a Drama with
an>Introduction and Notes. Ills, 179pp, few brown spots fore edge,>good
copy in protected price clipped dustjacket.
Faber. 1943.>()A three act
thirteen scene play based on the life of the>Empress-Dowager Tzu Hsi. In
this play her life is traced from>childhood to ruler. AU$30.00 [Please quote
item number 41424]
>
>COMPILATION GROUP FOR THE
"HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA" SERIES.>The>Opium War. Map, 8 black
and white plates + 131pp, index, wrappers>with faded spine, a good
copy. Foreign Languages Press. Peking.>
1976. () AU$22.00 [Please quote item number 3749]
>
>CONNER, LOIS. Panoramas of the Far East. Black and
white>reproductions of the photograps of Lois Conner, 60pp, very
good>paperback copy, oblong quarto.
Smithsonian Institution.>Washington.
1993. (1560983310)"In their slim dimensions, pale>layers of
washy gray, and sense of perfect balance and repose,>Lois Conner's
photographs stand out from the efforts of her>contemporaries. From her
antique cameras to her technique of>platinum plating-palladium printing, she
is one of the most>staunchly out-of-step artists at work today. Her
panoramic>landscapes have frequently been compared to Chinese scroll>paintings;
both view humankind with fragile tones, as a marked>but ultimately minor
presence." Publisher's description. This>book features photographic
images of China, Burma, Japan and>Nepal. AU$18.95 [Please quote item number
56357]
>
>CURTIS, LIONEL. The Capital Question of China. Maps,
including>three folding, one folding plan, xix + 322pp + 2ads,
appendices,>index, first and last leaves and edges foxed, occasional
light>foxing folding maps, fore edge little damaged some leaves,
small>bookseller stamp front pastedown, worn and browned price
clipped>dustjacket repaired with sello tape, now protected, still a
sound>copy. Macmillan. London.
1932. ()A look at Chinese history,>society and politics in light of
the author's view that "the next>serious threat to the peace of the
world would come from the>state of the Far East." AU$45.00 [Please
quote item number>63463]
>
>DAVIS, A.R. & A.D.
STEFANOWSKA (EDS). Austrina. Essays
in>Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the Founding of the>Oriental
Society of Australia. xii + 584pp, very good in>dustjacket. Oriental Society of Australia. No place of>publication. 1982. ()Papers by leading Orientalists - 19
of>Chinese, Korean and Mongolian interest, 9 on Japan and 5 others>on
West Asia, S.E. Asia and Buddhism. These include C.P.>Fitzgerald: Caravan
Routes and Trade in Old China; K.H.J.>Gardiner: Aspects of the Legend of
King Yuri Myong; Lo Hui-min:>G.E. Morrison and Yuan Shih-k'ai's Monarchial
Scheme; Michael>Underdown: Some Aspects of the Ch'ing Adminstration of
Monglia;>J.Y. Wong: The Taipings' Distant Allies: A Comparative Study
of>the Rebels at Shanghai and at Canton and Their Interaction with>the
Treaty Powers, 1853-1855; Joseph M. Kitagawa: The Shadow of>the Sun: A
Glimpse of the Fujiwara and the Imperial Families in>Japan; K.G. Henshall: A
Call for a Reconsideration of the>Japanese Concept of Naturalism. AU$30.00
[Please quote item>number 4347]
>
>DAWSON, RAYMOND. Imperial China. Maps, black and
white>illustrations, x + 326pp, chronological table, index, price>clipped
and little worn dustjacket protected, some light browning>free endpapers, a
good copy. Hutchinson. London.
1972.>()Discusses the twelve centuries of Imperial Chinese
history>beginning with the Sui Dynasty, which reunified China in
589>A.D., concluding with the reign of Ch'ien-lung in the 18th>century.
AU$30.00 [Please quote item number 4395]
>
>DIRLIK, AFRIF. The Origins of Chinese Communism. Black
and>white photographic plates, 315pp, notes, bibliography, index,>very
good paperback copy. Reprint. Oxford University Press. New>York. 1989. (0195054547)"In the first comprehensive study of
the>origins of Chinese communism, Arif Drilik offers a
revisionist>account of the introduction and triumph of Marxism in
China.>Using a wealth of fresh material, much of it released only
after>Mao's death, and emphasizing topics scanted or ignored in
>previous accounts -
including the dominance of socialism in May>Fourth thought, the importance
of labor movements in stimulating>class awareness, the role of organization
in ideology formation,>and the relationship between radical organisation and
its social>context - The Origins of Chinese Communism is an
indispensable>resource for courses in Chinese history and politics,
comparative>communism, Marxism and Asian Studies, and for anyone who wants
to>understand one of the most important political movements of
our>time." Publisher's description. AU$25.00 [Please quote
item>number 62914]
>
>DOW, FRANCIS D.M. A Study of the Chiang-su and
Che-chiang>Gazetters of the Ming Dynasty. Maps, black and
white>illustrations, one folding, 137pp + H, some soiling and
small>annotation title page, corners creased, wrappers quite worn
and>soiled, few small tears to edges, spine torn with loss, repairs>to
wrappers with sello tape, internally sound.
Department of Far>Eastern History, The Australian National
University. Canberra.>n.d. () AU$22.00 [Please quote item number 63421]
>
>DUPONT, ALAN. Australia's Security Interests in
Northeast>Asia.>131pp, paperback. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence
No. 84.> Canberra Papers on Strategy
and Defence, No. 6. ANU.
Canberra.>1991. (0731512812)Discusses Australia's national
security>interests with China, Japan and Korea and looks at
the>implications for Australia of developments in and between these>states.
AU$20.50 [Please quote item number 63641]
>
>EASTMAN, LLOYD E. Seeds of Destruction. Nationalist China
in>War and Revolution 1937-1949. ix + 311pp, notes,
bibliography,>character list, index, bookplate front free endpaper,
otherwise>good in protected dustjacket.
Stanford University Press.>Stanford.
1984. ()In this work the author examines the>Nationalist government
from several different perspectives.>AU$45.00 [Please quote item number
63724]
>
>EASTMAN, LLYOD E. The Abortive Revolution. China
under>Nationalist Rule, 1927-1937. xvii + 398pp, notes,
bibliography,>glossary, index, very good in lightly worn dustjacket,
now>protected. Second printing. Harvard University Press. Cambridge.> 1975. ()"The author of this study of the Kuomintang examines
the>factionalism that characterised the period; the struggle
for>centralistion between the government and the regional warlords;>the
impact of the Nanking regime on the rural economy; and the>influence of
Chinese culture on the political behaviour of the>Nationalists."
Publisher's description. AU$75.00 [Please quote>item number
63723]>>FRIEDMAN, EDWARD.
Backward Toward Revolution. The Chinese>Revolutionary Party. xvii +
237pp, index, paperback, tail spine>torn with some very minor loss,
otherwise a good copy.
UCP.>Berkeley. 1977. ()Looks
at the transitional period of the>Chinese Revolution, 1911-1919, with a
particular focus on the>identification of causes of the intellectual's
rejection of>liberalism and the rise of a peasant-based revolution. AU$25.00>[Please
quote item number 6013]
>
>GELDER, STUART AND
ROMA. Long March to Freedom.
Map,>illustrations, 255pp, front free endpaper removed, Hutchinson.>1962. ()China from 1943 to
1960. AU$22.00 [Please quote item>number
62913]
>
>GELDER, STUART. The
Chinese Communists. Endpaper map,>frontispiece torn with loss, xlii + 290pp,
Left Book Club edition>bound in
their characteristic red papercovered boards, spine>faded, lower joint
split, neat signature of a prior owner half>title. Reading copy only. Gollancz. Left Book Club ed. London.>1946. () AU$22.00 [Please quote
item number 6250]
>
>GOODRICH, L
CARRINGTON. A Short History of the
Chinese People.>Maps, illustrations, xv + 288pp, appendices,
protected>dustjacket, neat name front free endpaper, browning
endpapers,>lower hinge splitting, head & tail spine rubbed. Second
edition.>Allen & Unwin.
London. 1957. ()
AU$40.00 [Please quote item>number
6506]
>
>GREENBIE, SYDNEY. Gold of Ophir. The China Trade in the
Making>of America. Black and white illustrations, xix +
330pp,>bibliography, index, internally sound and clean, light wear
to>binding, minimal loss to head of spine, otherwise a good copy.>Revised
edition. Wilson-Erickson. New York. 1937. ()History of>the beginning of trade
between America and China. AU$70.00>[Please quote item number 6719]
>
>HAN FEI TZU. Basic Writings. Translated by Burton Watson.
vi +>134pp, index, neat signature of prior owner titlepage, otherwise>a
good paperback copy. Columbia U.P. New York. 1964.
()"Han>Fei Tzu (280?-233BC) was a prince of the ruling house of
the>small state of Han. A representative of the Fa-chia, or
Legalist,>school of philosophy, he produced the final and most
readable>exposition of its theories." AU$25.00 [Please quote item
number>41439]
>
>HERBERT, P.A. Examine
the Honest, Appraise the Able:>Contemporary
Assessments of Civil Service Selection in Early>Tang China. 7 charts,
x + 450pp, typescript, paperback.
Faculty>of Asian Studies, ANU.
Canberra. 1988. (0731503783)(New
book).>AU$44.00 [Please quote item number 43100]
>
>HO PING-YIN. The Foreign Trade of China. Tables, some
folding,>xvi + 826pp, index, rebound, insect damaged, most heavily on
the>first and last leaves, browned and foxed throughout, gilt>lettering
spine. The Commercial Press, Ltd. Shanghai.
1935.>()Study of the foreign trade of China. "The book is
divided into>twenty-two chapters, the first dealing with the history
of>China's foreign trade and its trend, the excess of imports
over>exports and their adjustment, with an analysis of the>commoditites
handled and the changes taking place in the>direction of China's trade. The
next nineteen chapters consist of>an analytical survey of each individual
country with which China>trades, including an historical sketch, general
trend of trade>and principal commodities handled. In the twenty-first
chapter>are grouped those countries which do not figure very
prominently>in China's trade, and the final chapter embodies briefly my
own>views as to how the progress of China's oversea commerce may be>expedited."
Taken from the Preface. AU$125.00 [Please quote item>number 63722]
>
>HU, PHILIP K. (ED.) Visible Traces. Rare books and
Special>Collections from the National Library of China. Coloured
and>black and white photographic plates, foreword, editor's>introduction,
chronology, sources, references,and related>readings, bibliography, xiv +
340pp.. An excellent paperback>copy.
Queens Borough Public Library
New York.
2000.>(0964533715)"Coinciding with the 90th anniversary of the
National>Library of China this book is a permanent record of the
landmark>United States exhibition of a selection of its rare books
and>special collections. The 68 exhibits are divided into
four>sections:'Rare books and Manuscripts'; 'Epigraphical and>Pictorial Rubbings';
Maps and Atlases' and 'Texts and>Illustrations from China's Ethnic
Minorities." Each item or group>of items is illustrated in full colour;
accompanied by an essay>in English and Chinese, along with notes on sources,
comparative>material and references to related readings. An
extensive>bibliography gathers together more than a century of research
on>topics represented by the exhibits." Publisher's
description.>AU$88.00 [Please quote item number 63472]
>
>KLINTWORTH, GARY.
(ED). China's Crisis: The International>Implications.
128pp, paperback. Canberra Papers on Strategy and>Defence No. 57. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
Australian>National University.
Canberra. 1989.
(0731507932)This>collection of papers includes: China's New Political
Structure ->Jonathan Unger; The View from Beijing - David Sadleir;
The>Japanese Stake - Eiichi Katahara; The Two Koreas - Peter
Polomka,>Hong Kong - Wang Gungwu; Taiwan and Tiananmen - Gary
Klintworth;>China's Domestic Crisis and Vietnamese Responses, April - July>1989
- Carlyle Thayer and The Impact of Sanctions on China ->Peter van Ness.
AU$22.00 [Please quote item number 63643]
>
>LAMONT-BROWN,
RAYMOND. Kempeitai. Japan's Dreaded
Military>Police. Map, black and white illustrations, tables, ix +
182pp,>chronology, glossary, bibliography, index, very good copy
in>dustjacket. [Reprint]. Budding Book
Stroud.
2000>(1840151625)"The origins of the Kempetai are examined and
its>subsequent growth from out of the Japanese military police and>secret
service…the ruthless nature of this much feared>organisation is brought to
life." (Publisher's description)>Includes chapters on the Kempetai's
activities in Manchuria and>Korea. As well as discussion of their activities
and influence in>Southeast Asia and their murder of Allied aircrews during
WWII.>AU$33.00 [Please quote item number 45562]
>
>LARY, DIANA. Region and Nation. The Kwangsi Clique in
Chinese>Politics 1925-1937. Maps, x + 276pp, appendix, notes,
select>bibliography, glossary, index, bookplate front free
endpaper,>small bookseller label front pastedown, otherwise very good
in>lightly worn dustjacket, now protected.
Cambridge University>Press.
Cambridge. 1974. ()A study of
the tensions between>region and nation in Republican China with a detailed
examination>of Kwangsi province in southwest China, the home base of a
major>warlord clique which was important both for its
interesting>internal politics and for its national influence in the
late>1920s and 1930s. AU$75.00 [Please quote item number 63721]
>
>LAWRENCE, CLARE. Minature Masterpiecesfrom the Middle
Kingdom.>The Monimar collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles. Many
coloured>photographic illustrations including a few lift out
pages,>contents, foreword, bibliography, index, 318pp., an excellent>copy
in a dustjacket. Zhenliu Xuan
Publishing Company. London.>1996.
(0951666150)Beautifully presented volume with sections on>different types of
snuff bottles (enamel, stone, jade, glass,>inside-painted). Most snuff
bottles described come from the Qing>or Manchu Dynasty. AU$115.00
[Please quote item number 63401]
>
>LI CHIEN-NUNG. The Political History of China 1840 -
1928.>Translated. Maps, xii + 545pp, detailed bibliography,
paperback>copy with minor wear extremities,spine faded, neat name
front>free endpaper. Reprint. Stanford U.P.
Stanford. 1969. ()>AU$25.00
[Please quote item number 29885]
>
>LIN YUTANG. Lady Wu. A True Story. Colour frontis, xiv
+>245pp,>foxing first and last leaves and edges, attractive
pictorial>dustjacket browned and foxed, now protected, still a sound copy.>Heinemann. Melbourne.
1957. ()Biography of Wu Tsertien, who>rose through charm and a series
of murders, to become Empress of>China during the 7th century. AU$30.00
[Please quote item number>10272]
>
>MCNEILLY, MARK. Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare.
Maps,>line drawings, contents, bibliography, index, 306pp.. An>excellent
copy in dustjacket. Oxford University
Press. New>York. 2001. (0195133404)"Long acknowledged as
a classic text on>strategy Sun Tzu's The Art of War has been admired by
leaders as>diverse as Mao Zedong and General Schwartzkopf." This
edition has>been made more reader friendly as McNeilly has extracted the
six>concepts most applicable to modern warfare, making them easy
to>understand and apply to military situations. AU$49.95 [Please>quote
item number 63718]
>
>OVENDEN, RICHARD. John Thomson (1837 - 1921). Black and
white>photographic plates, contents, foreword, introduction,
notes,>bibliography, glossary of photographic terms, index, 224pp.
An>excellent copy in a dustjacket. National
Library of Scotland.>Edinburgh.
1997. (0114958335)"John Thomson was one of the most>influential
photographers of the nineteenth century. He>photographed the royal court in
Siam and became the first>photographer to document the temple complex at Angkor
in>Cambodia. His major project however, was undertaken in China,>where he
was the first photographer to systematically document>all aspects of the
country: the landscape, industry,>architecture, street people and governing
classes. He returned to>Britain in 1872, publishing his photographs in a
number of books>and articles which established his reputation as a
traveller,>photographer and authority on China." Publisher's
description.>This book has chapters on John Thomson and his work as well
as>China. AU$44.00 [Please quote item number 63012]
>
>PELISSIER, ROGER. The Awakening of China 1793-1949. Edited
&>translated by Martin Kieffer. Maps, illustrations, 532pp, list
of>sources, indices, small bookseller stamp front free endpaper,>good in damaged
dustjacket with minor loss. Secker
& Warburg.>London. 1967. ()
AU$35.00 [Please quote item number 13396]
>
>[PRINT]. Pekin. Attractive chromolithographic view of
Peking,>some minor foxing border, with one spot on the image,
image>otherwise bright and unaffected. Sheet measures approximately 26>x
35.5 cms, image measures approximately 17 x 22.5 cms. William>Collins, Sons & Co. London. (circa 1880.) ()
AU$125.00 [Please>quote item number 55125] If you would like to see an image
of this>item please visit our web site http://www.OldBookroom.com
>
>REES, HELEN. Echoes of History: Naxi Music in Modern
China. CD>of recordings, map, some bla63681ck and white
illustrations,>segments of music score, contents, appendices
(Dongjing>Scriptures of Lijiang County, Temple Interiors for
Dongjing>Ceremonies in Dayan Town, Chinese texts and glossary of
Chinese>characters), notes, bibliography, discography,
videography,>index,280pp. a very good paperback copy. Oxford University>Press. New York.
2000. (0195129504)"Based on extensive>fieldwork and documentary
research, this book is a chronicle of>the musical history of Lijiang County
in Yunnan province,>southwest China.
It focuses on Dongjing music, a repetoire>borrowed from China's Han
ethnic majority by the indigenous Naxi>inhabitants of Lijiang County. Used
before 1949 in ceremonies of>the Confucian-influenced ritual Dongjing
associations as well as>in secular entertainment, Dongjing music was a key
example of the>Naxi minority's assimilation of Han culture over the last 200>years.
Prized for its complexity and elegance, it helped define>social
relationships, as proficiency in the music and membership>in the Dongjing
associations often signified high social status>and cultutral
refinement." Publisher's description. AU$21.95>[Please quote item
number 56324]
>
>SCHURMANN, FRANZ &
ORVILLE SCHELL. (EDS). Imperial
China.>Republican China. Communist China. 3 Volumes. 3 Volumes. Vol
1:>Imperial China. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. xxix +>298pp,
bibliography, index. Vol 2: Republican China. Nationalism,>War, and The Rise
of Communism 1911-1949. xxiii + 381pp,>bibliography, index. Vol 3: Communist
China. Revolutionary>Reconstruction and International Confrontation 1949 to
the>Present. xxxii + 647pp, bibliography, index. Maps, edges
little>browned, all volumes paperback with minor wear. Reprint.
Penguin.> Middlesex. 1968. () AU$25.00 [Please quote item number
62655]
>
>SPEISER, WERNER. China. Spirit and Society. Maps, many
tipped>in colour plates, 256pp, appendices, biblio, glossary,
index,>covers marked, endpapers little foxed, slipcase marked and
torn>with loss still contents clean and sound. Art of the
World>Series. Methuen. London.
1960. () AU$38.00 [Please quote item>number 16061]
>
De: "Laura
Hope-Gill" <laurahopegill@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet:: Website
Date: jeudi 13 mars 2003 16:43
Dear friends,
Please remind me of the web address for the Weishien site. Thank you so much.
Also, I was wondering last evening, what were the beds like in the
dormitory and in the family quarters?
Sincerely,
Laura
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Website
Date: jeudi 13 mars 2003 18:34
You can find it at weihsien.menzi.org.
Right now the "visual tour" of the camp, with map and pictures, is not working, but you can go to
watercolors by Gertrude Wilder and also
paintings by other artists. They are in a form
that can be downloaded to your own computer and printed out. I hope to
get the map working later today. I also want to add a page that will
compare paintings of the same scene by
different artists.
Let me know if you have any problems.
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: No beds
Date: vendredi 14 mars 2003 3:52
No beds, Laura.
We draped a poogai (sort of a quilt) over three steamer trunks put together and slept on that. This
got us off the floor above the rats,
but never away from the
bedbugs. The bedbugs slept by day in
every crack and cranny of these steamer
trunks and marauded across our bodies
at night.
In the summer, we Chefoo school students had the Battle of the Bedbugs
each Saturday. In our Lower School Dormitory (LSD) in the
second floor of the hospital with knife or thumbnail, you tackled each
seam of your blanket or pillow, you poked through every crack, every corner
of these steamer trunks, squashing all
the bedbugs or their eggs in your path.
You "ironed" your clothes by laying them flat between the
steamer trunks and the poogai. You "pressed" them as you slept.
Remember the rat catching competitions?
Norman Cliff, please, please tell us
that story -- clubbing rats, trapping rats, drowning them in basins,
throwing them in the bakery fire. Our Chefoo School won that contest. Norman, was it 68 dead rats your team brought in? Was it 30 on the last day?
Mary Previte
De: "Laura
Hope-Gill" <laurahopegill@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: No beds
Date: vendredi 14 mars 2003 5:01
Dear Mary,
Thank you so very much for the information--perhaps it was a silly
question.
A picture of Eric Liddell's room on the website shows a bed, so I
wondered who got them, how many were
there, and what were they like. . .
My grandmother writes of using hot stones to "iron"
clothes. I think what amazes me --as a descendant of internees,
never having been an internee--is that
ironing mattered. I suppose it makes
sense: one would want to maintain as
much normalcy of free life during incarceration, even it means the drudgery of ironing. Did a time come when such nods to pre-camp
life no longer held sway? It is my understanding that by the time of
liberation, everyone's clothing bore
patches from others deemed no longer wearable.
I imagine it as a true melting
pot of sorts wherein no one's clothes belonged
to anyone by the end, so patched.
My grandmother, however, also told me about a woman in the camp who
suffered schizophrenia. Grace spent time with her, and one
afternoon, well into the internment,
the woman showed her a pair of brand new blue silk panties she'd been keeping for the day they were
released. This particular story has
held a lovely meaning to me--something
so feminine, so beautiful in a harsh world.
Best wishes to everyone,
Laura
De: "Natasha
Petersen" <natasha@roanoke.infi.net>
À:
"weihsien" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: beds
Date: vendredi 14 mars 2003 20:04
Beds or no beds! This probably
depended upon the city from which one was taken. I believe that most of us from Tientsin were allowed to bring our
beds. We did have to enclose each bed
in a slotted wood "cage".
These planks of wood came in handy for shelves. Our beds were metal, and we had to take them
outdoors for debugging.
I remember Mrs. Kerridge who helped me make newer clothing out of old
clothes. Shoes were a problem. In warm weather many of the younger
internees went barefooted. Most of us did not iron. The clothes hanging out to dry were usually smoothed out by the wind.
For those of you who remember Joannie Walle --- She and I talk on the
phone about once every two weeks.
Natasha
De: "Donald Menzi"
<dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: No beds
Date: vendredi 14 mars 2003 21:07
Some people had beds, including my grandparents, who were allowed to
send them by a separate train.
De: "Joyce Cook"
<bobjoyce@tpg.com.au>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte Spam: Re: beds
Date: lundi 17 mars 2003 7:13
Dear Natasha. Yes, like you we
from Tsingtao were allowed to bring our beds into WeiHsien and I too folded all
my clothes and placed them under the mattress. Tsolik Baliantz from Tsingtao
(now living in San Francisco) made me a lovely blouse and shorts from my
mother's old dress.
I knew Joan Waller well. Please
pass love from me and my friend Ivonne Ozorio.
Is her sister Leila still with us? All the best. Joyce.
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>;
<ncas-pas@topica.com>; <wilder-stanley@topica.com>
Objet: Fwd: China list from Asia
Bookroom
Date: mercredi 19 mars 2003 0:15
Some of you might find some of these interesting.
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>BLAND, JOHN O.P. China Japan and Korea. Black and
white>illustrations, x + 327pp, index, good hardback copy with
gilt>lettering spine. Reprint. Books for Libraries Press. New York.>1971. ()First published in 1921
this book is divided into two>parts - Part I A Political Survey and Part II
Studies and>Impressions. Although largely looking at the situation at
the>time in China and Japan several chapters on Korea are also>included.
AU$40.00 (Approx. US$24.00) [Please quote item number
>60368]
>
>BRADLEY, DAVID. A Dictionary of the Northern Dialect of
Lisu>(China and Southest Asia). Contents, introduction, 258pp.;
large>octavo, a good copy in paperback.
Pacific Linguistics.>Australian National University. Canberra.
1994.>(0858834235)Dictionary from Lisu to English and English to
Lisu.>AU$35.00 (Approx. US$21.00) [Please quote item number 63821]
>
>CHINESE STAMPS. History through Chinese Stamps. In
Chinesetext, stamp illustrations in colour, 52pp, an excellent copy.Hong Kong
Heritage Museum. Hong Kong. c 1997. ()Illustratedoverview of Chinese stamps from circa
1878 to 1997. AU$29.00>(Approx. US$17.40) [Please quote item number 63755]
>
>CLEGG, ARTHUR. The Birth of New China. A Sketch of One
HundredYears 1842-1942. Map, 144pp, wrappers, discoloured endpapers,wrappers
torn and soiled. Lawrence and Wishart. London. 1943.() AU$20.00 (Approx. US$12.00) [Please quote item number 3457]
>
>COMPILATION GROUP FOR THE
"HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA" SERIES.TheReform Movement of 1898. Black
and white plates 136pp, index,wrappers, a good copy. Foreign Languages Press. Peking. 1976.() AU$22.00 (Approx. US$13.20) [Please quote item number 63430]
>
>COTTERELL, ARTHUR. The First Emperor of China. The
GreatestArcheological Find of Our Time. Introduction by Mr Yang ChenChing.
Maps, illustrations, 208pp, dustjacket, small quarto,index, good copy in
dustjacket. A good copy. Holt, Rinehart
andWinston. New York. 1981. () AU$25.00 (Approx. US$15.00)
[Please>quote item number 41442]>>DOUGLAS, SIR ROBERT K. China. Folding map, black and
white>illustrations, xx + 492pp, index, endpapers browned, first and>last
pages and edges little foxed, neat signature of prior owner>front free
endpaepr, attractive decorative gilt upper cover and>spine, minor wear,
still a nice copy. Fisher Unwin. London.>1912. () AU$45.00 (Approx. US$27.00)
[Please quote item number>4839]
>
>[ENGRAVINGS]. The War in China. A collection of 13 pages
of>engravings. 13 pages from The Illustrated London News with 28>black
and white wood engravings (including duplicated page),>includes one sketch
map of Canton, 3 full page engravings, 4>double page sheets, one in
duplicate, some wear to edges,>occassional marking and pale browning in
places, otherwise a good>collection.
The Illustrated London News.
London. Feb 13, 1858->Oct 27,
1860. ()Engravings include images of the Bombardment of>Canton December 28
1857; The camp of the Second Division of>British
Forces in the bay of pearls, Talien-Wan; Landing of the>allied forces at
Cooper's Creek; Attack on the 'Banterer's'Boat>in Sai-Lau Creek Canton
River; the departure for Hockly Pier; a>Josshouse at Canton; the crew of a
Gun Boat; Sampan Girl and>Military Train amongst more. AU$495.00 (Approx.
US$297.00)>[Please quote item number 53775]
>
>FITZGERALD, C.P. The Birth of Communist China. Maps,
288pp,>index, edges browned throughout, worn and little faded>dustjacket,
otherwise sound. Second printing. Praeger.
New York.> 1967. () AU$25.00
(Approx. US$15.00) [Please quote item number>5703]
>
>GARRETT, VALERY M. Traditional Chinese Clothing in Hong
Kong>and South China, 1840-1980. Colour and black and white>photographic
plates, 87pp, glossary, bibliography, index. Images>of Asia. Reprint. Oxford
University Press. Hong Kong. 1987.>(0195841743)(New book) "Taking
a close look at the traditional>apparel worn by the common people in Hong
Kong and South China>from 1840 to 1980, Valery Garrett records the attire of
children>and adults; describes various accessories, charms, fabrics,
and>dyes; explains wedding and funeral costume; and recollects
styles>forgotten with the advent of urbanization."
Publisher's>description. AU$31.95 (Approx. US$19.17) [Please quote
item>number 62988]
>
>HAW, STEPHEN G. A Traveller's History of China One of
the>Traveller's Histories Series. Maps, Appendices (Chinese language>and
Characters; Chronology of Major Events, List of Dynasties and>Selected Rulers,
References, Historical Gazetteer) and Index, x +>310pp, an excellent copy in
paperback. 3rd ed Cassell.
London.>2002. (0304364703)''A Traveller's History of China' provides
a>concise but fascinating journey from the country's earliest>beginnings
right up to the creation of the economic powerhouse>that is today's China.
Stephen Haw begins with the prehistoric>civilisations of 4000 years ago, and
from there to the centuries>of China's silk trade. Some of the most
significant inventions of>the pre-modern world, including paper, gunpowder
and the magnetic>compass were invented in China and then transmitted to
the>West.... the glories of the Tang and Song dynasties which saw
the>creation of the great Chinese cities to the period of its decline>and
the efforts of Europe to subdue the giant land. It covers the>tumult of the
Chinese Revolution and the dramatic changes in>policies since the 1970s
right up to the present>day.'(Publisher's description). AU$26.95 (Approx.
US$16.17)>[Please quote item number 63953]
>
>HAYES, JAMES. South China Village Culture. Endpaper
maps,>colour and black and white plates, 84pp, glossary,
bibliography,>index. Images of Asia.
Oxford University Press. Hong
Kong.>2001. (0195919890)(New book) "The true essence of China is
rooted>in its villages. South China Village Culture provides a
concise,>clear overview of the world of lineage and the clan
system,>self-government, customary law, ancestor worship,
geomancy,>Confucianism, Daoism, the status of women, and the multitude
of>interwoven forces that make up life in China at the
village>level." Publisher's description. A charming and fascinating
book.>AU$31.95 (Approx. US$19.17) [Please quote item number 62983]
>
>HSIAO, TSO-LIANG. Power Relations within the Chinese
Communist>Movement, 1930-34. A Study of Documents. x + 404pp,
glossary,>bibliography, alphabetical list of documents, very good
in>slightly worn and now protected dustjacket. Uni. Washington>Press. Seattle. 1961. ()Study of the Chinese Communist>movemment of the
1930s, viewed from the angle of intraparty>conflicts and their relations to
Moscow. AU$45.00 (Approx.>US$27.00) [Please quote item number 8191]
>
>HSU, FRANCIS L.K.
Americans and Chinese. xxviii +
493pp,>appendix, references, index, signature verso upper cover,
little>worn and marked paperback copy.
Doubleday Natural History Press.>
Garden City. 1953. ()Comparative
perspective on the history,>politics, economic patterns, art and literature
of America and>China. AU$22.00 (Approx. US$13.20) [Please quote item
number>62632]
>
>KNIGHT, NICK. Thinking about Asia. An Australian
introduction>to East & South East Asia. Map, contents,
introduction,>bibliography, index, 334pp., an excellent copy in
paperback.>Crawford House Pub
Adelaide. 2000.
(1863331972)"The East and>Southeast Asian region is of immense
economic, strategic and>cultural significance to Australia. It has also been
important in>defining Australia's national identity, and is the origin of
many>of Australia's immigrants. Australians therefore need to have>some
knowledge of this region, and to be able to think about it>in an informed
way. They need to do so not only to understand the>region in which they
live, but also to understand themselves>better. Through studying Asia,
Australians can gain a clearer>perception of their own society and who they
are as a people.>This book facilitates this process by providing
comparisons>between Asian and Australian societies."
(Publisher's>description). AU$39.95 (Approx. US$23.97) [Please quote
item>number 63978]
>
>[LARGE MAP OF MAINLAND
ASIA]. Asie. Dresee par A.H.
Dufour>Gravee par Ch. Dyonnet.
Large map of Asia with outline colour>showing colonial possessions. The map
also shows the tip of East>Africa, Europe and New Guinea in black and white
at the>extremities. This map shows Central Asia in a prominent
position>in the centre of the map, as well as India, China,
mainland>Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Some place names have
been>carelessly underlined, there is a small tear on the lower fold
in>the margin and a corresponding one on the upper margin which has>been
neatly mended, still an attractive striking map. Map>measures 59.8 x
82cm. Antoine. Paris.
(circa 1870). ()>AU$295.00 (Approx.
US$177.00) [Please quote item number 62706]
>
>LIN YI. A Short History of China. 1840-1919. Black
and white>illustrations, 106pp, chronological table, wrappers
little>browned, small octavo.
Foreign Language Press. Peking. 1963.>() AU$20.00 (Approx. US$12.00) [Please quote item number 63435]
>
>LYNN, MADELEINE
(ED). Yangtze River. The Wildest,
Wickedest>River on Earth. Maps on endpapers, black and white sketch
maps,>black and white photographic illustrations, contents,>bibliography,
xxiv + 294pp., an excellent copy in paperback.>Oxford University Press. Hong Kong.
1997. (0195869206)"Bathed>in superstition and folklore, the
Yangtze has been an inspiration>for more than a thousand years to those who
have lived there and>sailed along it. This new collection of writing,
spanning>thirteen centuries, offers a literary history of China's
longest,>most varied waterway, and includes classical Chinese
poetry,>Victorian memoirs and contemporary travel writing."
(Publisher's>description). AU$47.95 (Approx. US$28.77) [Please quote
item>number 63976]
>
>MATHER, RICHARD B.
(TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY).
Biography of>Lu Kuang. Two folding maps in rear pocket: Fu Chen's
Empire in>383 and The later Liang State 386-403, 141pp,
notes,>bibliography, index, small annotation tail of spine and
lower>corner front free endpaper, minor sello tape stain tail of
spine,>otherwise a good paperback copy.
University of California Press.>
Berkeley. 1959. ()
AU$35.00 (Approx. US$21.00) [Please
quote>item number 63417]
>
>MCDONALD, ANGUS W.
JR. The Urban Origins of Rural
Revolution.>Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China, 1911-1927. Maps,>tables,
xi + 369pp, biblio., index, dustjacket, bookplate front>free endpaper,
slight tear in dustjacket with cello tape repair.>U.C.P. Berkeley.
1978. (0520032284)In this work the author>relates the early growth of
the Chinese Communist movement, and>its near destruction in 1927, to the
far-reaching political,>economic, and intellectual changes Chinese of all
classes>experienced in the first quarter of the twentieth
century.>AU$45.00 (Approx. US$27.00) [Please quote item number 41698]
>
>NATHAN, ANDREW J. AND
BRUCE GILLEY (EDS.) China's New
Rulers.>The Secret Files. Black and white photographic illustrations
of>China's old and new Politburo standing members, contents,237pp.,>an
excellent copy in a dustjacket. Granta
Books. London. 2002>(1862075840)This important and
timely book will lift the lid on>the state of politics in the late communist
era in China. China's>New Rulersis closely based on classified internal
Chinese>Communist Party documents, which demonstrate that>personality-based
decisions continue to dominate Chinese>politics. It contains important and
compelling information about>the new generation of leaders who assumed
office in November 2002>and who are expected to move China further towards a
market>economy and align it more closely with the US. China's New
Rulers>provides fascinating and crucial insights into the
individuals>themselves and gives an unprecedented glimpse of the balance
of>power between them. (Publisher's description). AU$35.00
(Approx.>US$21.00) [Please quote item number 63956]
>
>OWEN, DAVID EDWARD. Imperialism and Nationalism in the
Far>East. xii + 128pp, bibliographical note, index, signature of>prior
owner front free endpaper, upper edge lightly foxed,>browned spine, minor wear
binding, otherwise a good copy with>silvered lettering upper cover and
spine, small octavo. Holt.>New
York. 1929. ()Discusses history and
politics in both China>and Japan. AU$22.00 (Approx. US$13.20) [Please quote
item number>63449]
>
>PEARL, CYRIL. Morrison of Peking. Map, black and white>illustrations,
vi + 431pp, biblio., index, dustjacket torn with>minor loss, now protected.
1st Edition. Angus & Robertson>Sydney.
1967. ()Biography of George Ernest Morrison. AU$44.00>(Approx.
US$26.40) [Please quote item number 13345]>
>PRATT, K.L. & D.W.S.
GRAY. China: an Index to European
Visual>and Aural Materials including Hong Kong, Korea, Mongolia,
Taiwan>and Tibet. xvii + 129pp, list of sources, little marking
front>free endpaper and edges, otherwise good in dustjacket. Crosby>Lockwood Staples. London.
1973. ()Survey of the European>sources of visual and aural materials
which relate to Chinese>history and culture. Categories covered include
film, filmstrips,>slides, prints, maps, and tapes. AU$25.00 (Approx.
US$15.00)>[Please quote item number 62543]
>
>RUDD, HERBERT F. Chinese
Social Origins. ix + 221pp,>bibliography, covers patchily faded, tiny tear
head of lower>joint and trifle worn at extremities. U.C.P. Chicago. 1929. ()>AU$25.00 (Approx. US$15.00) [Please quote item
number 14658]
>
>STUART-FOX, MARTIN. A Short History of China and South
East>Asia. Tribute, Trade and Influence. Maps, contents,
preface,>abbreviations, notes, index, x + 278pp., an excellent copy
in>paperback. Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2003.
(1864489545)A>readable, well-informed and comprehensive short history
of>China's relationships with its Southeast Asian neighbours from>ancient
times to the present day. A new title in the Short>Histories of Asia Series,
edited by Milton Osborne.>China, the world's most populous nation, has
always exerted great>influence on the traditional kingdoms and modern states
of>Southeast Asia. Today, history and culture continue to shape
the>modern relationship.>In this concise volume, Martin Stuart-Fox charts
the history of>relations between China and Southeast Asia across two
millennia,>examining patterns of diplomacy, commercial networks,
and>migration, and>explaining how these have varied over time. He shows
how China's>traditional world view was disrupted by the modern order of>sovereign>nation
states, how the country struggled to adapt through its>'century>of
humiliation' from the opium wars to the proclamation of
the>People's>Republic in 1949 and how, since then, China has sought to
restore>its>standing in the world.>A Short History of China and
Southeast Asia is a fascinating>account>of imperial ambition, internal
collapse and revival, cultural>and>commercial striving, war and
revolution. Here, the 'Middle>Kingdom'>plays its role on the world stage,
from the beginnings of its>history to>its growing contest with the USA
for dominance of the Asian>region.>An important insight into the
complicated history of the>fastest-growing region in the world. to its
growing contest with>the USA for dominance of the Asian arena. AU$29.95
(Approx.>US$17.97) [Please quote item number 63954]
>
>[TANG CHINA]. Daily Life of Aristocrats in Tang
China.>Coloured>and black and white photographic illustrations, maps,
diagrams,>126pp., an excellent copy in dustjacket. Hong Kong
Heritage>Museum Hong Kong. 1993.
(9627213128)Attractive plates display>various aspects of daily life of
aristocrats in Tang China, for>example jewellery, bronze mirrors and
figurines. Text mainly in>Chinese with some short English summary of the
plates, AU$50.00>(Approx. US$30.00) [Please quote item number 60512]
>
>TREVOR-ROPER, HUGH. A Hidden Life. The Enigma of Sir
Edmund>Backhouse. Black and white illustrations, 316pp,
appendices,>notes, index, light soiling edges and first and last
leaves,>large inscription to prior owner front free endpaper, quite
worn>and torn dustjacket with minor loss, now protected, contents>sound
and clean. Reprint. Macmillan.
London. 1976.>()Fascinating
biography of the co-author of the classic works>"China under the
Empress Dowager" and "Annals and Memoirs of the>Court of
Peking". AU$38.00 (Approx. US$22.80) [Please quote item>number 17260]
>
>YANG YUAN. Silver Art. Costumes of China's Ethnic Minorities.>Text in Chinese and English,
colour and black and white>photographic illustrations, contents, small
quarto, 108pp, an>excellent copy in paperback. Hong Kong Heritage Museum. Hong>Kong. 2002. (9627213438)Detailed
photographic illustrations of>costumes, ornaments and silver jewellery from
a number of China's>ethnic minorities. Minorities include Hezhe, Dai, Miao,
Gejia and>Tujia peoples. AU$42.00 (Approx. US$25.20) [Please quote
item>number 60525]
>
>YIM, SHIE-YEN. Forest Peoples. The Hunting Culture of
North>China. Written in Chinese and English, attractive
interlocking>paper cover (back cover folds over book and interlocks into
front>cover), map, profusely coloured, preface, foreword,
introduction,>conclusion, oblong octavo,100pp., excellent copy in paperback.>Hong Kong Heritage
Museum. Hong Kong. 1999. (9627213276)Book>published on the
occasion of the 'Forest Peoples: Hunting Culture>of North China' exhibition.
Chapters include the geography,>history of the people, animal skin culture,
birch bark culture>and Shamanism. AU$35.00 (Approx. US$21.00) [Please quote
item>number 60520]
>
>YONGXIAN, LUO. A dictionary of Dehong, Southwest
China.>Pacific>Linguistics Series C - Books, 145. Maps, contents,
introduction,>large octavo, xl + 300pp., an excellent copy in
paperback.>Pacific Linguistics. Australian National University. Canberra.>1998. (0858834960)Chapters include Dehong Tai phonemic>inventory, Lexicon
and Dehong orthography. AU$47.85 (Approx.>US$28.71) [Please quote item
number 63951]
>
>YUAN HONG-QI. Daily Life of a Qing Emperor. Text in
Chinese>and>English, profusely illustrated in colour photographic>illustrations,
plan, square octavo,>118pp. An excellent copy in paperback. Hong Kong Heritage>Museum.> 1994. (9627213152)Describes daily life of
an emperor in the>Qing Dynasty. Catalogue to accompany exhibition of same
name.>AU$42.00 (Approx. US$25.20) [Please quote item number 60513]>
>YUAN HONG-QI. Empress Dowager Cixi. Her Art of Living.
In>Chinese and English, exhibition catalogue, decorative
'tissue'>endpapers, profusely illustrated, preface, appendices
(chronology>of Empress Dowager Cixi and Beautification Formulae of
Empress>Dowager Cixi), quarto, 112pp, an excellent copy in
paperback.>Hong Kong Heritage Museum.
Hong Kong.
1996.>(9627213225)Catalogue includes chapters covering aspects
of>Empress Dowage Cixi's costumes, make-up, diet and religion.>AU$46.00
(Approx. US$27.60) [Please quote item number 60516]
>
De: "Gladys
Swift" <glaswift@cstone.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Fwd: China list from Asia
Bookroom
Date: mercredi 19 mars 2003 4:37
I am too upset and concerned over Pres. Bush's declaration of war
on Iraq to be able to focus on the Asia
Bookroom or Weihsien past.
Please take me off your lists except for the current emergency.
De: "Natasha
Petersen" <natasha@roanoke.infi.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Fwd: China list from Asia
Bookroom
Date: mercredi 19 mars 2003 16:56
Gladys,
Do you wish to be taken off the Weisien listing? I am not sure what your last sentence
means. I will wait for your
instructions before deleting your name.
Natasha Petersen
natasha@infi.net
De: "Joyce
Cook" <bobjoyce@tpg.com.au>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Anybody know Mura
Wolson's daughter?
Date: mardi 25 mars 2003 3:44
I have fond memories of a fellow inmate of WeiHsien camp named Mura
Wolson. She loaned me a white dress to wear at my school graduation in the
chirch hall at WeiHsien. She had a daughter aged about 7 or 8 years at the time
whose name I do not recall. Mura was a good friend of my mother Vera Cooke and
I would like to establish the daughger's name so I may pass on to her my long
standing appreciation of her mother's kind action in lending me the dress
otherwise I would have been he only one without a white dress. Regards. Joyce Bradbruy.
De: "Greg
Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: Anybody know Mura
Wolson's daughter?
Date: mercredi 26 mars 2003 5:47
Hello Joyce,
I haven't come across the surname Wolson but there was a Mrs. Wulfsohn
who had a daughter Marguerite. They
were Americans.
Greg
De: "Joyce
Cook" <bobjoyce@tpg.com.au>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Anybody know
Mura Wolson's daughter?
Date: mercredi 26 mars 2003 6:54
Dear Greg. Thanks a lot. No doubt you have picked the right lady
Mrs.(Mura) Wulfsohn. Does anybody have any information about this lady or her
daughter Marguerite? Thanks. Joyce
Bradbury.
De: "Ron Bridge"
<rwbridge@freeuk.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte Spam: Re: Wulfson
Date: mercredi 26 mars 2003 11:17
I have been out of the loop for a few days.
The Wulfson family was LM Wulfson (described as Merchant( b1902) Mrs
Mura Wulfson (b 1909) and Margerite (b1935) have no idea where they went after
Weihsien they were in Tientsin prior to the War as I have some 8mm footage of
me playing in a Sandpit with Marguerite at the Tientsin Country Club circa
1940/1. Also a picture of her at a children party same era. Not sure when they
acme into Weishien as in the 30Sep44 Camp luist theye are in Block 41 Room 6
and this was our room on Arrival in March 1943 and we moved to Block 13 after
the Gripsholm evacuees left
Rgds
Ron
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Fwd: China list from Asia
Bookroom
Date: vendredi 28 mars 2003 0:32
>Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:37:55 +0000
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Bookroom <books@AsiaBookroom.com>
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>
>BIANCO, LUCIEN. Origins of the Chinese Revolution
1915-1949.>Translated. Map, xi + 223pp, index, name of prior owner
front>free endpaper, worn paperback copy. Reprint. Stanford
U.P.>Stanford. 1974. (0804708274)
AU$20.00 (Approx. US$12.00) [Please>quote
item number 48692]
>
>CH'U, T'UNG-TSU. Local Government in China Under the Ch'ing.>xiv
+ 360pp + 50 page biblio/glossary, index, creased spine,>otherwise a good
paperback copy. Reprint. Council on East Asian>Studies, Harvard. Cambridge.
1988. ()"This book attempts to>describe, analyze, and interpret
the structure and finctioning of>local government at the chou and hsien
levels in the Ch'ing>dynasty." Taken from the introduction. AU$33.00
(Approx.>US$19.80) [Please quote item number 3004]
>
>CHENG TE-K'UN. Archaeology
in China. Vol II: Shang China.>Folding map, maps, xxviii + 368pp, appendix,
index, dustjacket>little worn and marked, now protected sellotape stains
endpapers,>still a sound copy. Quarto.
Heffer. Cambridge. 1960.
()This>work is devoted to the development of Shang culture.
AU$50.00>(Approx. US$30.00) [Please quote item number 3174]
>
>COHEN, ERIK. The Chinese Vegetarian Festival in
Phuket.>Religion, Ethnicity and Tourism on a Southern Thai Island.
Maps,>colour plates, xxiv + 211pp, notes, references, index, paperback.> White Lotus. Bangkok. 2001.
(9747534894)The Chinese vegetarian>festival in Phuket if the most popular
and complex religious>event in southern Thailand. In this richly illustrated
work, the>author presents a detailed ethnography of the festival based
on>fieldwork conducted in the 1990's, with the focus being on
the>interrelationship between the dynamics of the festival,
Chinses>ethnicity in modern Thailand and the development of tourism
on>the island of Phuket. AU$58.00 (Approx. US$34.80) [Please quote>item
number 51102]
>
>COMPILATION GROUP FOR THE
"HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA" SERIES.>The>Taiping Revolution.
Folding map, black and white plates 188pp,>index, wrappers with faded spine
and little wear, a good copy.>Foreign Languages Press. Peking.
1976. () AU$22.00 (Approx.>US$13.20) [Please quote item number 63431]
>
>DEACON, RICHARD. A History of the Chinese Secret Service.
Map,>black and white illustrations, 523pp, bibliography,
index,>dustjacket trifle worn, small stain upper cover, now protected,
a>good copy. Muller. London.
1974. ()Espionage in China dates>back over 2,000 years, certainly
before Sun Tzu documented them>in his famous work 'Articles of War` in the
4th century BC. This>book traces the history of intelligence services in
China.>Richard Deacon set up his own mini intelligence service using
ham>radio operators to intercept Chinese secret service radio>messages
and from this presents information about modern>techniques used. AU$65.00
(Approx. US$39.00) [Please quote item>number 4526]
>
>DUPUIS, J. A Journey to Yunwan and the Opening of the
Red>River>to Trade. Translated and Afterword by Walter E.J. Tips. Maps,
vi>+ 105pp, paperback. White
Lotus. Bangkok. 1998>(9748434303)(New Book) This work is
the account of the journey of>a French trader up the Red River in 1872-1873.
AU$44.00 (Approx.>US$26.40) [Please quote item number 46902]
>
>FAIRBANK, JOHN K. (EDITED
BY). The Cambridge History of
China.>Volume 10 Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Part I. Maps, xvi +
713pp,>bibliography, index, glossary, very good copy in
protected>dustjacket. Cambridge
University Press. Cambridge. 1978. ()>AU$125.00 (Approx. US$75.00) [Please quote item number 64168]
>
>FEUCHTWANG, STEPHAN
D.R. An Anthropological Analysis of>Chinese>Geomancy. Black and white
illustrations, figures and tables, xii>+ 263pp, appendices, list of works
cited, additional references,>a very good copy in paperback. White Lotus. Bangkok.
2002.>(9744800194)Study of Chinese geomancy, feng shui, which was
first>published in 1974. For this edition Stephen feuchtwang has>revised
the book and added a new chapter to it. AU$48.00 (Approx.>US$28.80) [Please
quote item number 64067]
>
>HAY, JOHN. Ancient China. Map, few colour
illustrations, black>and white illustrations, 128pp, index, dustjacket
little worn,>otherwise a good copy, small quarto. Bodley Head
Archaeologies.>Bodley Head. 1973.
() AU$28.00 (Approx. US$16.80) [Please quote>item number 7444]
>
>HERVOUET, Y.
Catalogue des Monographies Locales Chinoises Dans>Les Bibliotheques
D'Europe. 100pp, index, wrappers trifle
browned>otherwise very good.
Mouton Paris. 1957. () AU$30.00 (Approx.>US$18.00)
[Please quote item number 41454]
>
>HULL, HELEN. Mayling Soong Chiang. 32pp, torn dustjacket
with>loss, now protected, few pages carelessly opened. Coward-McCann.>New York. 2nd imp. n.d.
(c. 1943). ()Biography of Madame
Chiang>Kai-shek. AU$20.00 (Approx. US$12.00) [Please quote item
number>8283]
>
>KEYTE, J.C. The Passing of the Dragon. 2 sketch maps, 1
plan,>36 black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 338pp,>index,
first and last leaves very lightly foxed, minor wear to>cloth binding,
pictorial gilt upper cover, spine faded, binding>little skewed, overall a
clean copy of a scarce title. 2nd ed new>& revised. Carey. London.
1925. ()Well observed missionary>account of 1911-12 revolution as it
affected the Shensi and Kansu>regions of Northern China. The preface and
epilogue to the second>edition of this work first published in 1913 comment
on more>recent developments. AU$75.00 (Approx. US$45.00) [Please
quote>item number 9343]
>
>KOTEBEV, ANATOL M. New Lamps for Old. An Interpretation
of>Events in Modern China and Whither they Lead. 371pp, index,>ex-library
copy, cancelled library stamp title page and lDewey>classification numbers
copyright page and spine, otherwise a very>good hardback copy. Reprint. AMS
Press. New York. 1971. ()In>this work the author urges
that in order to promote better>understanding of China and Chinese affairs
Western observers need>to gain insight into Chinese interpretation of events
which is>quite different from that of the West. AU$50.00
(Approx.>US$30.00) [Please quote item number 64169]
>
>LEUNG, PAUL S.W. Happy
Birthday, Emperor Qianlong. In Chinese>and English, profusely illustrated
with coloured photographic>plates, attractive pictorial tissue endpapers,contents,
preface,>foreword, oblong octavo, 130pp., an excellent copy in
paperback>Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Hong Kong. 2000.
(9627213357)Book>details the Emperor Qianlong's 80th birthday in 1790.
Chapters>include Court Ceremonies, Family Banquets and Theatrical>Performances.
AU$64.50 (Approx. US$38.70) [Please quote item>number 60523]
>
>MARCH, ANDREW L. The Idea of China. Myth and Theory
in>Geographic Thought. 167pp, notes, bibliography,
index,>dustjacket. Wren. Melbourne.
1974. ()Discusses both the>Chinese and Western view of China.
AU$22.00 (Approx. US$13.20)>[Please quote item number 62544]
>
>NATHAN, ANDREW J. AND
BRUCE GILLEY (EDS.) China's New
Rulers.>The Secret Files. Black and white photographic illustrations
of>China's old and new Politburo standing members, contents,>237pp., an
excellent copy in paperback. Granta
Books. London.>2002.
(1862075840)This important and timely book will lift the>lid on the state of
politics in the late communist era in China.>China's New Rulersis closely
based on classified internal Chinese>Communist Party documents, which
demonstrate that>personality-based decisions continue to dominate
Chinese>politics. It contains important and compelling information
about>the new generation of leaders who assumed office in November
2002>and who are expected to move China further towards a market>economy
and align it more closely with the US. China's New Rulers>provides
fascinating and crucial insights into the individuals>themselves and gives
an unprecedented glimpse of the balance of>power between them. (Publisher's
description). AU$22.95 (Approx.>US$13.77) [Please quote item number 64011]
>
>OLIPHANT, LAURENCE. Narrative of The Earl of Elgin's
Mission>To>China And Japan In The Years 1857, 1858 and 1859. Volume I.
Vol I>only. 2 folding maps, black and white illustrations, xiii +>492pp,
appendices, edges marked, gilt lettering upper cover and>spine. Reprint.
Kelley. New York. 1969. () AU$45.00 (Approx.>US$27.00)
[Please quote item number 63450]
>
>PARKER, GEO S. The Mysterious Yangtze. A Travelog. Map,
17>black and white photographic illustrations, 94pp + plates,
uncut>edges, small bookseller stamp front pastedown, otherwise very>good
copy. Small octavo. Privately Printed. 1937. ()Well>observed, self-printed
account of a trip up the Yangtze River.>AU$50.00 (Approx. US$30.00) [Please
quote item number 64170]
>
>RANKIN, MARY BACKUS. Early Chinese Revolutionaries.
Radical>Intellectuals in Shanghai and Chekiang, 1902-1911.
Frontis,>340pp, notes, bibliography, glossary, index, paperback,
minor>wear extremities. Second printing. Harvard U.P. Cambridge.>1974. () AU$25.00 (Approx.
US$15.00) [Please quote item number>14068]
>
>REINSCH, PAUL S. Intellectual
and Political Currents in the>Far>East. viii + 396pp, index, ex-library
with cancelled stamps>endpapers, damp staining spine, joints and upper edge
throughout,>light wear to binding, gilt lettering spine, contents
sound.>Constable. London. 1912. ()Discusses intellectual and
political>currents in China, India and Japan. AU$20.00 (Approx.
US$12.00)>[Please quote item number 14233]
>
>ROLLS, ERIC. Sojourners.The Epic Story of
China's>centuries-old>relationship with Australia. Endpaper maps, black
and white>photographic illustrations, 531pp, biblio., index,
paperback,>quarto, a very good copy.
Uni. of Queensland Press. St
Lucia.>1992. () AU$35.00 (Approx. US$21.00)
[Please quote item number>56140]
>
>ROPP, PAUL S. (EDITED
BY). Heritage of China.
Contemporary>Perspectives on Chinese Civilization. xxi + 369pp,
index,>paperback, neat signature of a prior owner half title. Uni of>California. Berkeley.
1990. (0520064410) AU$30.00 (Approx.>US$18.00) [Please quote item
number 52779]
>
>SCHIFFRIN, HAROLD Z. Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of
the>Chinese>Revolution. Map, black and white illustrations, xv +
412pp,>glossary, bibliography, index, upper hinge split,
some>underlining, front free endpaper and edges lightly soiled,>damaged
and faded dustjacket repaired with sello tape, contents>sound. University of California Press. Berkeley. 1968. ()>AU$22.00 (Approx. US$13.20) [Please quote item number 34313]
>
>SCHWARZ, JÜRGEN, WILFRIED A.
HERRMANN & HANNS-FRANK SELLER>(EDS).
Maritime Strategies in Asia. Colour
photographic>illustrations, xvii + 655 pp, CD Rom in rear pocket,
paperback.>White Lotus.
Bangkok. 2002.
(9744800089)Maritime Strategies in>Asia, the first-ever major study on
maritime strategies in the>Asian region and the technical co-operation possibilities
with>German maritime industries, provides an up-to date and>comprehensive
assessment of the maritime strategic AU$89.50>(Approx. US$53.70) [Please
quote item number 58691]
>
>SMEDLEY, AGNES. The Great Road. The Life and Times of Chu
Teh.>Endpaper map, frontis, xviii + 461pp, chronology, index,>extremities
worn, papercovered boards marked, neat signature of a>prior owner front free
endpaper, browned throughout.
Monthly>Review Press. New York.
1956. () AU$22.00 (Approx. US$13.20)>[Please quote item number 15759]
>
>TSAO, W.Y. Two Pacific Democracies. China And
Australia. Black>and white illustrations, xvii + 157pp, signed by the author
front>free endpaper, endpapers very lightly browned, edges lightly>foxed,
trifle worn and price clipped dustjacket, now protected, a>sound copy. Cheshire. Melbourne. 1941. ()Published in 1941,>gives the
author's interpretation of China, touching on areas>such as Chinese policy
and philosophy and the trade and political>relations between China and
Australia. AU$25.00 (Approx.>US$15.00) [Please quote item number 63580]
>
>TWITCHETT, DENIS. (EDITED
BY). The Cambridge History of
China.>Volume 3 Sui and T'ang China, 589-906, Part I. Maps, tables, xx
+>850pp, glossary-index, spine of binding little bubbled, two
small>stains upper cover, otherwise sound in lightly worn dustjacket,>now
protected. Reprint. Caves Books.
Taipei. 1981.
()Taiwanese>reprint. AU$88.00
(Approx. US$52.80) [Please quote item number>64167]
>
>WU, TIEN-WEI. The
Sian Incident: A Pivotal Point in Modern>Chinese History. Plans, black and
white illustrations, xiv +>285pp, index, paperback, very good copy. Centre for Chinese>Studies. The
University of Michigan. Michigan. 1976. ()>AU$30.00 (Approx. US$18.00) [Please quote item number 62916]
>
>YIM SHUI-YEN (ED). The Art of Chinese Traditional
Woodblock>Printing. In Chinese and English text, folded
coloured>reproduction woodblocks loosely inserted within
wrappers,>coloured illustrations, contents, preface, introduction,
oblong>octavo, 192pp., an excellent copy in wrappers. Hong
Kong>Heritage Museum. Hong
Kong. 2000. (9627213306)Brief description>of the woodblock process.
Woodblock illustrated are mainly 20th>century. AU$58.50 (Approx. US$35.10)
[Please quote item number>60521]
>
>YULE, COLONEL SIR HENRY.
(TRANS & ED.). Cathay and the
Way>Thither Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China. Revised>by
Henri Cordier. 4 vols. Volume I: xxiii + 318pp. Volume II: xii>+ 359pp.
Volume III: xv + 269pp. Volume IV:
xii + 359pp, index.>Folding maps including two in rear pockets. Very good
set in>dustjackets. Reprint. Munshiram Manoharlal. New Delhi.
1998.>(812150838X)(New Book). Reprint of Hakulyt Society
edition.>AU$170.00 (Approx. US$102.00) [Please quote item number 39234]>
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte Spam: Margaret Chadwick Hines
Date: lundi 31 mars 2003 5:53
Hello, Everybody:
The Bergen Record in New
Jersey has announced the death of MARGARET
CHADWICK HINES. Does this name
ring a bell with anyone?
Here's the Headline and a
brief part of the story:
Margaret Hines, at 69;
Held prisoner in WWII
Born in Manchester England,
to Frank and Ena Chadwick, Mrs. Hines
was 9 years old and living in China
where her father, a banker, had an
import-export business. The
business was seized by the Japanese in 1942.
Mrs. Hines and her parents
were separated and sent to different prison
camps.
(The article refers to a camp in Harbin.)
The camps were liberated
in1945 by U. S. Marine paratropers who air
dropped food to the starving prisoners.
On another subject:
One of our liberators, Jim Moore, has delighted a group of 4th
graders at Holy Saviour School near
here by sending his World War II picture and a
thank you note. The 4th graders
sent home-made Valentine's Day cards and
letters to all of our liberators after I told the students our Weihsien
story. I always leave the list
of names and addresses of our heroes when I
tell this story.
Jim lives in Dallas, Texas.
Helen Hanchulak, widow of
Raymond Hanchulak, who was the medic on
the Weihsien rescue team, will
celebrate her birthday on April 18. If
you'd like to drop her a card, her
address is
Helen
Hanchulak, P.O. Box, 243 Laurie Lane,
Bear Creek Village, PA 18602
USA
Mary Previte
De: "Natasha
Petersen" <natasha@infionline.net>
Objet: Alerte
Spam: change of email address
Date: mardi 1 avril 2003 16:25
Please note change of email address to: natasha@infionline.net
Natasha Petersen
De: "Natasha
Petersen" <natasha@infionline.net>
À:
"weihsien" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte Spam: email
Date: mardi 1 avril 2003 20:36
Please note that I have a new email address: natasha@infionline.net
Natasha Petersen
De: "Natasha
Petersen" <natasha@infionline.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: New Book Oxford
University Press
Date: samedi 12 avril 2003 1:20
This site is for those who were interned in Weihsien, China by the
Japanese during WWII.
I am not sure whether your release would be of interest to us. Please send me more info about the
publications.
Natasha Petersen
----- Original
Message -----
From: "Daniel
Giacomo" <danielg@weissmark.com>
To:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Sent: Friday,
April 11, 2003 10:40 AM
Subject: New Book Oxford
University Press
> Dear Colleague,
>
> I thought you might be interested in this notification of a
forthcoming> release by Oxford University Press in 2003. If you are not the
person> who selects material in this field, I would appreciate if you
would> please forward it to the appropriate selector.
>>>
> Thank you.
>
Ø Kind regards,
>
> Mona Sue Weissmark, Ph.D
>
> Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University>
> Associate Professor of Psychology>
> Founder, Mansfield Institute for Social Justice>
> Roosevelt University>
> 430 South Michigan Avenue>
> Chicago, Illinois 60605
> Phone: 312-341-3799
>
>
> Justice Matters: Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II
>
> Springing from an unprecedented meeting between the sons and
daughters> of the Holocaust and the children of the Third Reich, Justice
Matters:
> Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II takes readers on an>
unparalleled journey of hatred and ethnic resentments.
>
> Although more than half a
century has passed, recollections of the> Holocaust and WWII still sear the
lives of survivors, their children and> grandchildren.
>
> Weissmark's book shows how
the cycle of ethnic and religious strife is> kept alive generation after
generation through story-telling, with each> side recounting the injustice
it suffered and the valor it showed in> avenging its own group. Describing
how these stories or "legacies"
> transmit moral values, beliefs and emotions and thus preserve the
past,> Weissmark writes: "Unjust acts that have not been reconciled are
stored> in legacies as if packed in ice."
>
> The lessons of Justice
Matters speak to a world reeling from unhealed> wounds, providing insights
into myriad conflicts ranging from centuries> old disputes in Northern
Ireland and the Middle East, to racial strife> in America's ghettos.
>
> Weissmark presents an
inspiring recipe for reconciliation, asserting> that it is not enough for
the antagonist to agree to talk. Each side> also must agree to moderate
their own emotions and dispense with the> notion that they are the most
aggrieved.
>
> Justice Matters is about
hearing the other side, seeing the other view.
> The story of how children of the Holocaust and children of the
Nazi's> struggled to come to terms with their past has universal
applications> for any people, and culture, riven with a legacy of
resentment.
>
> Mona Sue Weissmark the
daughter of Holocaust survivors, headed the> Harvard Holocaust Conference
Research Project. Her role as initiator of> the idea of a dialogue between
children of victims and children of> persecutors gives her an important
perspective and important voice. Mona
> Sue Weissmark is an associate professor of psychology and the
founder of> the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice at Roosevelt
University and a> visiting scholar at Northwestern University. Her work has
been featured> on National Public Radio, on major television networks such
as Dateline> and Sunday Morning News and in publications such as The New
York Times,> the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Herald, Psychology Today, Ms.
Magazine,> and Harvard Magazine as well as in academic publications.
Weissmark is> the author of Doing Psychotherapy Effectively and many
articles.
>
>
>
De: "Gladys
Swift" <glaswift@cstone.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: New Book Oxford
University Press
Date: dimanche 13 avril 2003 3:11
Reply from Gladys - This book is not directly in my field. Sorry.
De: "Gladys
Swift" <glaswift@cstone.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Can you believe
this!
Date: dimanche 13 avril 2003 3:12
Reply from Gladys Hubbard Swift - I would like to contact Amy (below who
wrote to Mary) and find out how her father (and who was he?) knew that my father Hugh Hubbard had introduced
basketball to China. Wen Shi Di wants to know more about that and
I want as much corroboration as I can
get. You can see that I wrote Amy
below but never heard from her.
> >Hello, Everybody,
>>
>> Here's a letter from
a New Jersey lady who contacted me after she read an
>>tribute I wrote about our Weihsien heroes to celebrate our
liberation day
>>this August. We've been
e-mailing back and forth -- especially after sahe
>>told me her father had been stationed in China during World War
II.
>>
>> You with the Hugh
Hubbard and Jesuit priests connections will be
>>fascinated at this e-mail letter she wrote me today. Who of you
returned to
>>Peking after we were liberated?> You msay know tis man.
I've asked her for
>>herf father's name and military unit.
>>
>>Here's her letter:
>>
>>Dear Mary,
>>
>>I spoke to my Dad on the phone last night and when I told him
about you, he
>>said, "She wasn't at Weihsien Camp was she?!" He said he met a lot of people
>>who had been released from various camps, most definitely
including Weihsien!
>>In September 1945 he was on leave and went to Peking, where he
took classes
>>at the Chinese Lanugage School, which had a rooming house. Many
of the others
>>living there were recently released from Weihsien! He recalled
that they were
>>happy to see American GIs, and "considered us all heroes
who came to China.
>>They thanked us for liberating them." He wanted to know if
you knew Mrs. Hugh
>>Hubbard, whose husband introduced basketball to China. There was
also a
>>Jesuit priest, a fellow stamp collector like my Dad.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>Amy
>
>Reply to Amy from Gladys Hubbard Swift - Mrs. Hugh Hubbard
"whose husband>introduced basketball to China" under the YMCA in
Tientsin, was my mother>(Mabel). I
wonder how your father met her? My
father after release from>Weihsien was among the first to go from Weihsien
back to Beijing. He was>asked to check on American Board (Congregational)
mission property for the>Board but I thought Mother went from Weihsien
directly to the U.S.? In>fact she
came to my home in New York City. Tell
me more, Amy. My father>was an avid
stamp collector of Chinese stamps, wrote a booklet on early>Chinese
Communist stamps,and may likely have helped your Dad with some>Chinese
stamps.
>>
>
De: "Leonard
Mostaert" <mostaert@hinet.net.au>
À:
"TOPICA" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: getting right list
Date: mardi 22 avril 2003 12:26
Dear Natasha
Some time now my
computer had a stroke as I was performing a heart transplant on it. I have overcome
all the problems but now I do not seem to get into the weihsien list. Would you
please help.
Leonard Mostaert
password : nardy
De: "Leonard
Mostaert" <mostaert@hinet.net.au>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: getting right
list
Date: mardi 22 avril 2003 12:49
Dear Natasha
Would you please help me
in finding the right entry point to the Weihsien list. I am a subscriber.
Leonard Mostaert
De: "Gladys
Swift" <glaswift@cstone.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: getting right
list
Date: mercredi 23 avril 2003 5:06
Leonard Mostaert [mailto:mostaert@hinet.net.au
] From Gladys Swift
You are coming through loud
and clear on the Weihsien line!
De: "Leonard
Mostaert" <mostaert@hinet.net.au>
À:
"TOPICA" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: anyone knew Mr. W.
Howell ?
Date: mercredi 23 avril 2003 12:22
Does anyone remember Mr. William May Howell and his
wife Maria Lena Howell ne Ivashkoff? They lived in the camp, Block 9 room 5.
Mr. Howell died in the camp, and before the camp he lived in Tientsin, Victoria
Mansions Building.
Does anyone have
recollections, personal stories, even impersonal ones, anecdotes, even
vignettes, anything.
Mrs. Lena Howell's
brother was Gary Nash ne Igor Ivashkoff father, and Gary Nash would like to
know as much as possible about him as he was elderly at the time, and Gary Nash
only knew him as Mr. Howell. Gary Nash has just published a book "The
Tarasov Saga" where poor Mr. Howell is just described as Mr. Howell. The
book starts in Russia, then Harbin, Tientsin, The Camp, and finally Australia.
Leonard Mostaert
No. 248 Block 53 Room 1 (Kitchen No.2 at the far end from Mr. Howell)
De: "Natasha
Petersen" <natasha@infionline.net>
À:
"weihsien" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Mr & Mrs Howell
Date: mercredi 23 avril 2003 16:25
Leonard and others
My father and I had a room just a few doors down from the Howells. I remember that Elena Howell was quite
younger than her husband. They were
always very pleasant with everyone. I
also remember that after Mr. Howell died, Blanche Kloosterboer and I did the
Weejee (?) Board calling on his spirit.
We asked that his spirit move a rug that was on the floor to prove that
it was present. We "saw" the
rug move, and ran out the room, scared to death. Al Voyce lived on the same block, and was the interpreter for the
Japanese guards. I believe that he
lives in Hawaii. He was older and
probably remembers more about the Howells than I.
Leonard, I am glad that you are able to access Topica.
Natasha
De: "Leonard
Mostaert" <mostaert@hinet.net.au>
À:
"TOPICA" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Mr. Howell
Date: jeudi 24
avril 2003 11:55
Dear Natasha
Thank so much for the
information on Mr. Howell. Did you ever do anything like that séance (?) again
?
I have connected to Topica, I really do not what happened, either I had
lost all my confidence after the complicated operation on the computer, or just
plain old.
warmest regards
Leonard Mostaert
no.248
De: "David M.
Allen" <dandya@fidalgo.net>
À: "Weihsien
internees" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte Spam:
Fw: Historic day.
4/09/2003
Date: samedi 26
avril 2003 1:36
----- Original
Message -----
From: David M.
Allen
To: Weihsien
internees
Sent: Wednesday,
April 09, 2003 5:04 PM
Subject: Historic day.
4/09/2003
April 9, 2003
This has been a historic day.
Iraq has been freed from oppression.
They were invigorated,
emotional, and jubilant. It
reminded me of what it felt like on Aug 17, 1945 ( the day after my eleventh
birthday) when the B-24 flew over Weihsien Civil Internment camp and 7 GI's parachuted
outside our camp. We went crazy with
elation and happiness. After spending 3
1/2 years of confinement in this prison camp and finally being free to run and
meet our freedom fighters -- WOW! what a feeling. I ran barefooted out of the prison camp out the front gate down
the road to the fields where the GI's were landing. We acted just like these
Iraqi's except there was nothing to loot.
I had been separated from my parents for 5 years, nothing like these Iraqi's who have known
30-35 years of dictatorship and hardship, torture, repression, poisonings,
terror. The exuberation of exiled
Iraqis in Dearborn, Michigan was understandable. I honestly hope they can now develop their own freedom of
expression and talents. Its like the
birth of a new baby, with hope for the
future, and great rejoicing. I couldn't
help but shed a tear, as I rejoiced with them.
Dad
P.S. This is a letter I wrote to my grown children ... They were
fortunate to be born between 1960- 1965 and
didn't have to serve in defense of their country.
De: "David M.
Allen" <dandya@fidalgo.net>
À: "Weihsien
internees" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Living Concitions in
Weihsien
Date: samedi 26
avril 2003 1:44
----- Original Message -----
From: David M.
Allen
To: Helen McDonald
( Admiral Nimitz Museum) TX
Sent: Thursday,
April 10, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: Living Concitions in
Weihsien
LIVING ARRANGEMENTS:
There were 10 of us boys
crammed in a classroom 12 ft long X 10 ft wide.
All the mattresses had been rolled up against the wall where the
bedbugs lived. This gave up 2 to 3 ft of walking space
because in the middle of the room were
steamer trunks (our seats). In the
opposite corner from the door to our
room were Red Cross boxes stacked over by John Taylor's side.
Starting from the door and
going around the room were: Raymond
Moore, David Allen, Robert Clow, John
Birch, ////////////, on the other side, Philip
Paulson, Paul Grant, David Michell, John Taylor, Val Nichols. I will have to confer with John Taylor, and Paul Grant, and maybe we can figure
it out together. We were all about 10 - 11 years of age.
In the room next to us were
the girls of approximately the same age. I couldn't remember one of their
names, but I think there were 8 of them.
I wasn't interested at that
time. We were housed in Building 24 which had the bell tower.
There are other memories of
roll call ... learning to number off in
Japanese ...learning the caws of rooks in the trees and what they meant
... making snowballs and snowballing
the guards ... (this was a kids game, no
adults allowed)... making coal balls for our little KLIM (Milk
spelled backwards) cans, which we
mudded and made into stoves ... walking
through the tunnel underground by the
hospital, ... running long distance races through the camp ... reddened buttocks from mouthing off to teachers,
generously applied by Mr Martin with
hand, shoe, ... yellow jaundice and the utter
distaste for the smell or taste of food, that was when we were in
Building 23 before getting moved into
Building 24, ... roll call late in the evening after 2 men escaped from the
camp and the bell was rung. We were
outside a long for that one .... sneaking
out the window of our classroom, and getting caught by Miss Priestman on her prayer rounds.
(Notes I made previously).
Dave Allen
dandya@fidalgo.net
De: "David M.
Allen" <dandya@fidalgo.net>
À: "Weihsien
internees" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: In Memory of Stanley
Houghton
Date: samedi 26 avril 2003 1:46
----- Original
Message -----
From: David M.
Allen
To: Weishien
internees
Sent: Thursday,
April 17, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: In Memory of Stanley
Houghton
Our headmaster under the Communist occupation 1949-1951
Passed away in Kuling, Kiangsi, China
In Memory of Mr. Stanley Houghton
On the tombstone
Birth: July 26, 1900
Death: July 17, 1950
At home with the Lord
There we laid him
Husband, Father, Friend
Above the school he loved,
And served right to the end
This spot shall sacred be]
To every memory.
Loved ones, teachers, girls and boys
Will oft recall the joys
Of Kuling days
And see amid the cup of hills
And blessings --
The school so dear
And then the hallowed spot so
near
Where he who was the center of it all
Awaits the trumpet call.
But more than this!
He lived for China and for Christ,
And God has honored him to be
A
servant still
For, though the living witnesses may go
His monument will always show to China's sons
The
constraining love of Christ!
Poem by E.T. Brailey about our headmaster.
After the style of E.T. Browning
De: "Dwight
W. Whipple" <thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Historic
day. 4/09/2003
Date: samedi 26 avril 2003 3:23
Nice to see/hear of David Allen's remembrances. My wife, Judy, and I were in Kuling just
last November (my birthplace) and we were treated royally. What a beautiful place!
~Dwight W. Whipple
De: "David
Birch" <gdavidbirch@yahoo.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: In Memory of
Stanley Houghton
Date: samedi 26 avril 2003 3:58
Beautiful thoughts about a truly great man whose life profoundly
affected, for good and for God, the
lives of all of us who knew him. I too thank God for the memory of Stanley
Houghton, my schoolmaster, choirmaster, scoutmaster and friend.
David Birch
De: "David
Birch" <gdavidbirch@yahoo.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Tremendous Memories
David! Good for you!
Date: samedi 26 avril 2003 4:07
Although I had visited my brother, John, in the room you recall, I
somehow thought it was much more spacious. But you would know. The rooms
I inhabited at Weihsien, although some of them were fairly small, were
never quite so crowded. In some there were only four of us boys.
David Birch
De: "David M.
Allen" <dandya@fidalgo.net>
À: "Helen
McDonald" <Helen.mcdonald@tpwd.state.tx.us>; "Weihsien
internees" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Kuling 1948
Date: samedi 26
avril 2003 13:11
This is for those who were in Kuling in 1948
'08/31/48 Aliens arrive at Kuling one day before school classes start.
'09/04/48 Paul Grant, Christopher Rowe and Dave Allen hike to Nanking
Pass
'09'01/48 Lower 5 class
schedule
Mon Tue Wed
Thu Fri Sat
'0910 Scrip Eng Lit Eng Lan Scrip Math Matt
'0955 Math Science History Math
Science Eng Lit
1100 Latin Latin Science Latin Latin Science
1145 French French Math French
French Geog
2:00 Eng Lan Sing OFF Chinese
Singing OFF
2:45 EngHis Geog OFF Craft
Art OFF
3:30 Chin. Math OFF Craft
Art OFF
Supervised HOMEWORK SCHEDULE
7:30 - 9:00 PM
Mon Tue Wed
Thu Fri Sat
Science Math
Eng Lit History Latin OFF
Latin Scrip Science
Geog. French OFF
Math French Math Eng.Lan Science
OFF
Wed Afternoons we would go to
the Swedish Pool to swim
Science = Chemistry and Physics.
'09/13/19 Paul Grant's birthday
... that day did tumbling exercises.
'09/13/19 Saw horse exercises, walking on hands on gym floor
09/15/48 Reading book "Fighting for Freedom"
09/16-17 Craft project - fix broken down chair - Thursday & Friday
09/18/48 First sign of my Os Good Schlater Disease of patella in
knee-cap
'09/22/48 Move from Martin House into room with classmates.
09/24/48 Receive tennis racket and tennis balls - trade for my bicycle
09/23/48 Learning to write down Chinese using phonetic script
10/02/48 Hike to Paradise Pools - 7 miles past Monument at the Pass
10/02/48 Found discarded famous walking stick with finger grips on hike
10/01/48 Received first of 3 tetanus shots.
10/07/48 Began soccer season - lose game 1; win game 2.
10/8/1948 Austin's and Jeffreys have just arrived at school.
10/9/1948 Mr. Welsh show film of 1948 Olympiad with Bob Mathias from
Tulare.
10/10-17
Max Min WB
a.m p.m Rain
'10/10 Sun
51 76 52
0 MOP
observations
10/11 Mon 59 79
55 0 for week 10/10 - 10/17
'10/12 Tue
56 66 56
0
10/13 Wed 46 50
47 .75 .25
10/14 Thu 47 55
49 0 .05
10/15 Fri
44 65 47
0
10/16 Sat
47 64 48
10/17 Sun 51 ---
10/19/48 Table servers strike and Upper School boys and Girls serve
tables.
10/23/48 Mr. Joyce shows pictures of Moslems in Palestine.
11/02/48 Monthly Holiday - Set tail to follow - attackers and defenders
11/02/48 Mr. Brailey, Mr. Martin, Dr. Pearce go along.to supervise
11/02/48 My team: Paul Grant, Fred Wilhelm, Alan Moore, Dave Allen
11/07-14 My job to wash dishes in evening.
11/09/48 Played soccer with Chinese team from across the valley.
11/13/48 Mr. Carlburg shows pictures of NE of USA.
11/14/48 Paul, Christopher and David go for hike to Nanking Pass
11/17/48 Teachers give concert and reading of test grade scores.
11/20/48 School out for holidays - play spin the bottle, charades.
11/22/48 Fifth grade concert and game night.
11/22/48 Act: The Miller, his
son and the donkey
11/26/48 First fall of snow. 3/4" to 1 1/2 in snow on Monkey ridge.
12/01/48 Start playing field hockey
12/02/48 Hike to precipice at Lion's Leap. Great echoes there.
12/04/48 Ruth Allen's birthday.
Also 2nd tetanus shot
12/05/48 Memorizing Psa. 119:67, 71, 75. Had folding memory cards.
12/11/48 Hiking every day now - part of holidays for those not going to
parents.
12/11/48 Teachers read to us
John Buchan's "39 Steps" in Assembly Hall
12/11/48 One of the most inspiring times for us were there story hours.
12/11-18 Also reading: Green
mantle and The three hostages.
12/15/48 Gordon Allen's birthday:
In evening sang camp fire songs round fire.
12/16/48 Hike to Hun Yang Peak - those without parents for the holidays
12/18/48 Receive letter sent Nov 30: Much faster than in 1943 in
Weihsien.
12/18/48 Hike to Cave of the Immortals and see Buddha in glass case.
12/24/48 Middle & Upper School go caroling - sing to Chinese school
cross valley.
12/25/48 Mr. Carlburg dressed up as a Chinese Coolie and brought
presents
12/25/48 Oranges, sweets, jacks and ball. WE al meet in the Assembly Hall.
12/25/48 Presents received: Ping-Pong ball, loose leaf pad,
handkerchief, Authors
12/25/48 game, Soccer ball from parents.
12/25/48 Dinner: Chicken, Christmas pudding, vegetables , firecrackers .
12/25/48 At 5 pm Father Christmas came riding on sleigh with reindeer.
12/28/48 Ramp covered with snow
to make sled run down onto ball field.
01/01/49 John Pearce's birthday Go to his birthday party. Did Newspaper Jigsaw
01/01/49 Puzzle, and played charades.
01/02/49 Mr. Kane takes Stanley and Douglas down the mountain.
De: "alison holmes"
<aholmes@prescott.edu>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Kuling 1948
Date: samedi 26
avril 2003 16:56
Thanks so much, Dave, for this detailed glimpse of life in
Kuling.......the timetable is just rivetting!
How old were you/we when we were dealing with all this fascinating
work? And to see all the
activities...the staff really did engage fully with us, stretching us in every
way they knew how. It was strange to be
reminded of Pa beating/spanking/chastising you with hand and shoe...I remember
the strap and slippers and brush. I am
glad those days are past! I don't agree
at all with you about the Iraqis joy on liberation being like ours, but I am
always glad to be reminded of that glorious Seventeenth. Give my best to Ruth and
yourself.........Alison Martin Holmes
Alison Holmes
Liberal Arts Coordinator
Adult Degree Program
Prescott College,
220 Grove Avenu
Prescott, Az 86301
1 928 776 7116 X3202
De: "David M.
Allen" <dandya@fidalgo.net>
À: "Weihsien
internees" <weihsien@topica.com>; "Helen McDonald"
<Helen.mcdonald@tpwd.state.tx.us>; "Gordon/Corinne Allen"
<corinneseel@yahoo.com>; "Carl/Ruth Conner"
<Ruth_5468433@msn.com>
Cc: "Paul Grant" <paulgrant@ozemail.com.au>
Objet: Kuling 1949 Jan &
Feb
Date: samedi 26 avril 2003 21:16
KULING 1949 Part 1
01/01/49 John Pearce's birthday Go to his birthday party. Did Newspaper Jigsaw
01/01/49 Puzzle, and played charades.
01/02/49 Mr Kane takes Stanley and Douglas down the mountain.
01/03/49 Played hockey like pigs in the mud
01/05/49 Miss Phare sets up treasure hunt: look for 56 pieces of orange
paper
01/05/49 Hunt went along Monkey ridge to the Gap and over across the
valley
01/06/49 Mr Brailey, Joy Simmonds, Betty Jeffrey, Raymond Moore, Dave
Allen
01/06/49 hike down hill with
frozen steps to get 2 weeks money for the school..
01/06/49 Celebrated Raymond Moore's birthday party 4 days late.
01/07/49 Mr Brailey takes older boys and girls on hike above Gap to 1000 steps.
01/07/49 Knees improving finally over OsGod-Schlater knee problem.
01/08/49 Mrs Crapuchettes read us story about the Porteus capture &
freedom.
01/11/49 Stephen Austin, Gordon Carlburg, Raymond Moore, Dave Allen
chase
01/11/49 porcupine out of cellar of McCarthy house
01/11/49 Miss Phare reads to us story about Baden Powell founder of Boy
Scouts
01/13/49 Had a tough game of field hockey
01/14/49 Raymond Moore, Gordon Carlburg, Dave Allen go for hike to
heights of
01/14/49 Abraham (named by Paul Grant).
30 foot drop off, 80 degree angle.
01/14/49 Climbed down by rope to ice pond with 3 inches thick ice.
01/15/49 Mr. Brailey, instructs us on football (soccer), dodgeball, and
volleyball.
01/15/49 In evening we have quiz program - foreign phrases,
Abbreviations,
01/15/49 General knowledge, Music Sports. Get oranges for right answers.
01/16/49 Miss Broomhall gives talk on Africa, & Mohamedanism
01/19/49 First day of new term - unofficial because many students nor
back.
01/19/49 Miss Bromley and Miss Taylor arrive back at school - talk about
trip.
01/19/49 Hockey teams: N. China vs S. China . Scores equal in 2 games.
01/19/49 Christopher Rowe break hand Jan 5. improving steadily
01/22/49 Miss Phare tells story of man hypnotized by two buttons
01/23-30 Each night games supervised by reachers: Kim's Game, Music
01/23-30 competition, Reading etc. This week I read: "Wolf Ear the
Indian",
01/23-30 I will Repay",
"Assignment in Brittany"; "The Scarlet Ship."
01/29/49 Saw movies of faces of Destiny: Paul Robeson, Winston Churchill
01/29/49 John Buchan; Henry Luce.
Louis Montbatten of India.
01/29/49 Mr Carlburg showed movies of Royal Family and Airborne Troops
in USA
01/29/49 New Year's Day for the Chinese. We celebrated with them.
01/30-? Mrs Brailey delivers
little boy this week: Peter Thomas Brailey
02/02/49 I go to Christopher Rowe's birthday party.
02/05/49 Nankong Pass station beyond Russian Valley robbed of guns.
02/05/49 Mr Houghton gives talk on position play for hockey and mistakes
we
02/05/49 make. Also some of
field hockey sticks have been repaired;
02/05/49 Semi-offficail class schedule.
Clases in morning than at 4.00 homework
02/05/49 Stuck in 401 stamps in stamp book. All stolen when leaving China.
02/05/49 Also all my diaries were taken. All this info from letters home to folks.
02/06-12 Sledding and toboganning on 6 inches new snow down runway to
field
02/06-12 Christopher and Dave Allen make huge snowballs to use for
forts.
02/13/49 Looking for arrival of Shanghai party 02/19/49 on the St. Paul
ship.
02/13/49 No news of Langchow and Chungking party
02/13/49 Kunming party expected Tue 02/15/49: Keith Butler, Kathleen
Phillips;
02/13/49 the James's and probable the Kiangsi party also.
02/13/49 Kweiyang party delayed by damage to aeroplane.
02/13-20 Have been having half day school until all parties arrive
02/13-20 This week all parties except Langchow party arrive with welcome
of
02/13-20 Snowballs on arrival.. Especially waiting for Paul Grant to
arrive with the
02/13-20 Langchow group. Would like to give him Royal reception.
02/15/49 Read book: "Through Forest and Fire": Now reading
Abraham Lincoln's
02/15/49 life. Raymond shoots
arrow 100 yards on field.
02/17/49 Mr Houghton reads to us from "Pickwick Papers" by
Charles Dickens
02/17/49 Fist sight of Peter Thomas Brailey. Now about 2 weeks of age.
02/21/49 Date to start new term.
De: "David M.
Allen" <dandya@fidalgo.net>
À: "Weihsien
internees" <weihsien@topica.com>; "Paul Grant" <paulgrant@ozemail.com.au>;
"Becca Christel" <Makitrel4u@aol.com>; "Dan Allen"
<ponzos@aol.com>
Objet: Alerte Spam: Kuling 1949 Feb - Apr.
Date: dimanche 27 avril 2003 4:42
KULING 1949 Part 2
2/21/49 Date to start new term.
2/21/49 Signed up as full-time monitor.
Also job duties have changed from
2/21/49 sweeping stairs to setting tables at night.
2/21/49 Getting acquainted with new long run course. Take avenue above
2/21/49 school to the Gap and then down another road to the front gate.
2/21/49 Health stats: Height: 5ft 8 1/2 in. Weight: 137. Wing span
5ft 9 in.
2/21/49 Reading Sunday library book: "The Bells of Enderbury"
2/21/49 Reading Weekly
book: "Assignment in
Brittany."
2/21/49 Mr Houghton reading to us:
"In the grip of the Druids."
2/27/49 Lanchow party has not arrived in the St. Paul" or by plane.
3/05/49 Catch mouse in the library
3/05/49 Mr Houghton give us lecture on:
3/05/49 '1) What table manners were
3/05/49 2) What table manners are
3/05/49 3) What table manners should be
(with realistic mistakes)
3/06/49 Waiting to join Boy scouts when Paul Grant returns.
3/09/49 Reading book: Paris
Underground.
3/12/49 Spring is evident with fragrant magnolia blossoms.
3/12/49 Sat Max 67 Sun am
45 22 degree change
3/12/49 Yearnings of home: Missing
Yunnan. Chaocheo, Erhyuen, Chaoyi
3/19/49 Most items of interest seem to fall on Saturday
3/19/49 Sat. afternoon we went over Morris Hill into Russian
Valleu, There
3/19/49 we set up a tarp, cooked some stew, ate sanwiches, played
capture
3/19/49 the flag.. On returning
Miss Stark showed us pictures of Tali & Kunming.
3/22/49 Mr. Myer and Miss Dolder were married.
3/23/49 Reading book "Flight of the Heron."
3/26/49 Mr Fishback gave students lecture on Chinese customs and manners
3/26/49 Assisted Miss Stark with tumbling exercises for lower school and
walk
3/26/49 on hands, vaults etc.
3/26/49 Mr. Sinton, Mr. Rockness & Mr. Robertson come to Ferry
Glan. Thinking
3/26/49 of setting sights for a new school. Good thing it didn't go through,
3/26/49 because of Communist takeover 10/01/49
3/26/49 Mr Martin calls telling of possible arrival 3/29/49 Lanchow
party
3/27/49 Ridley Smith, David Simpkin, David Allen hike psst Emerald
Grotto
3/27/49 to Stone bridge, past 3 Trees and around by the pagoda then home
3/28/49 Monthly Holiday: Raymond
Moore, James Muir, Christopher Rowe
3/28/49 Ridley Smith and I hike to Stone Bridge, Three Trees, Emerald
Grotto
3/28/49 and back to school.
4/01/49 Miss Elliott takes me to garden of Kiang Kai Shek, being cared
for
4/01/49 by adjutant to get blossoms for wedding.
4/02/49 Lanchow party arrive in Kuling. No mail getting through because
4/02/49 airfield at Nanchang is under water with floods for a fortnight.
4/02/49 Wedding of Mr Searle and Miss Draffin: Collected blossoms and
4/02/49 Larch sprigs to decorate.
4/02/49 Mr Hulso and Mr Carlburg show pictures of Kuling and America
4/02/49 Pictures of San Francisco and Alcatraz.
4/02/49 Miss Jepson shares can of sweets with children at school
4/04/49 New Class schedule
4/04/49 TIME MON
TUE WED THU
FRI SAT
4/04/49 0915 SCRIP LATIN
LATIN SCRIP LATIN
LATIN
4/04/49 0955 FRENCH MATH
HIST. FRENCH MATH HIST.
4/04/49 1100 SCIENC GEOG
MATH SCI. GEOG
FRENCH
4/04/49 1145 MATH SCI.
FRENCH MATH SCI.
MATH
4/04/49 0200 E.LANG SING
OFF E.LANG SING
OFF
4/04/49 0245 E.LIT CRAFT
OFF E.LIT ART
OFF
4/04/49 0330 CHIN. CRAFT
OFF CHIN. ART
OFF
4/04/49 PREPS: HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
4/04/49 0645 LATIN MATH
SCI. LATIN E.LIT
OFF
4/04/49 0715 MATH FRENCH
SCRIP GEOG HIST
OFF
4/04/49 0745 GEOG E.LANG
E.LIT FRENCH SCI.
OFF
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Living Conditions
in Weihsien
Date: lundi 28 avril 2003 2:03
I wish I had kept notes as you did in Weihsien, David. What an incredible record you have!
I thought the tolling of the bell at midnight from Block 24 was the celebration of the Victory in Europe, not
the escape of Hummel and Tipton. I certainly remember the Japanese summuning us
out of bed for a lengthy midnight roll
call as a result of the ringing of the bell.
Who else has a recollections of
that night?
Mary Previte
De: "David
Birch" <gdavidbirch@yahoo.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Living
Conditions in Weihsien
Date: lundi 28 avril 2003 3:06
I'm quite certain that the ringing of the bell was to celebrate VE Day. There's no way that we in the camp
would have called attention in the middle of the night to the escape of our
fellow-internees, Tipton and Hummel!
The Japanese did not learn of the escape of T and H till rollcall in the
morning. So they certainly weren't in our bell tower ringing the bell.
Incidentally. I'm sure that the bell tower was on Block 23. I lived
there for a while myself until after the escape of Tipton and Hummel, when
several dozen of us boys were moved to Block 61 (the hospital) to occupy rooms
in the attic that looked out over the walls of the camp into the Wei River
valley.
The bell ringing was done by internee pranksters at about 11 pm on the
night they learned about the Allied Victory in Europe (VE Day). I clearly
recall being roused by my chums to go outside and stand under the black night
sky illuminated by thousands of tiny pin pricks of stars. The Japanese were so
drunk it took them four times to count everyone. We got back to our beds after
2 AM.
The news of the Allied Victory in Europe probably reached us via one of
the radios that was patched together with parts stolen from our
captors--perhaps even by that rascally classmate of mine, Jack Graham!
Sincerely
David Birch
gdavidbirch@yahoo.com
De: "David M.
Allen" <dandya@fidalgo.net>
À: "Weihsien
internees" <weihsien@topica.com>; "David and Monica"
<silverbirch@shaw.ca>; "Dan Allen" <ponzos@aol.com>;
"Becca Christel" <Makitrel4u@aol.com>; "Paul Grant"
<paulgrant@ozemail.com.au>
Objet: Sports Day May 6,
1949
Date: lundi 28 avril 2003 6:13
KULING 1949 Part 3 April 4 - May 6 1949
4/04/49 New Class
schedule
4/04/49 TIME MON
TUE WED THU
FRI SAT
4/04/49 0915 SCRIP LATIN
LATIN SCRIP LATIN
LATIN
4/04/49 0955 FRENCH MATH
HIST. FRENCH MATH HIST.
4/04/49 1100 SCIENC GEOG
MATH SCI. GEOG
FRENCH
4/04/49 1145 MATH SCI.
FRENCH MATH SCI.
MATH
4/04/49 0200 E.LANG SING
OFF E.LANG SING
OFF
4/04/49 0245 E.LIT CRAFT
OFF E.LIT ART
OFF
4/04/49 0330 CHIN. CRAFT
OFF CHIN. ART
OFF
4/04/49
4/04/49 PREPS: HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
4/04/49 0645 LATIN MATH
SCI. LATIN E.LIT
OFF
4/04/49 0715 MATH FRENCH
SCRIP GEOG HIST
OFF
4/04/49 0745 GEOG E.LANG
E.LIT FRENCH SCI.
OFF
04/05/49 Made Tip cat and Bat in craft class. You;ll know what that is if you
04/05/49 went to school in Kuling.
I've played this game with my children
04/05/49 while on holiday (English
for vacation)
04/05/49 Dick Martin falls, leaning over wall, gets greenstick fracture
of arm
04/06/49 Paul Grant, Raymond Moore and Dave Allen hike to Russian
Valley.
04/05/49 Miss Bromiley demonstrates how reactive magnesium is with water
and
04/05/49 carbon dioxide. Heat
marks up Stephen Austins knife.
04/07/49 Paul Grant show how to run steam roller using Ridley Smith's
alcohol
04/07/49 Lots of soot formed. Fun to watch.
04/07/49 Mrs Wupperfield passed away at 1:00 am; funeral at 2:00 pm.
04/09/49 Scouts go down to stream to measure flow velocity. This done by
04/09/49 making small dam, making a 5 inch V cut and measuring the
number
04/09/49 of inches rise above the cut. This indicates number of volts a
dam could
04/09/49 produce of useful voltage.
04/12/49 Was sick in bed, taking Santonine medication. No school but
read
04/12/49 The "Two Gangs";
""Peter the Whaler."
04/14/49 Upper School Boys team race: 5 in each team. Our team came in
2nd.
04/16/49 In Math we are studying Sines, Cosines, Tangents.
04/16/49 Upper School long distance race: Keith Butler, John Pearce, David
04/16/49 Simpkin. Lower School
long distance: Maurice Longsdon beats Keith
04/16/49 Butler time.... phenomenal running of Maurice.
04/16/49 Made wooden pegs for Jeep Board. Gladys Tweddell tried out the
04/16/49 game for herself.
Works fine.
04/16/49 Sister Dorothy now 6 1/2 back from sickbay for classes.
04/16/49 Walked to CIM building #44 which has been vacant 25 years
04/16/49 It is all overgrown ... Dug up young trees for front of church
04/17/49 Today is Easter. For
breakfast: Bacon, eggs, chocolate egg.
04/17/49 Church service held at Church of the Ascension
04/18/49 Started training for Sports Day. Events are:
04/18/49 Relays, Long jumps, High jumps, 100 yd dash, 220 yds dash, 440
yd
04/18/49 run, shotput, and cricket throw.
04/21/49 Mr Muir arrived at Homework time to suprise kids.
04/24/49 Afternoon missionary service: stories about Kansu province.
04/24/49 Question about our safety:
Seems okay -- Missionaries in Peking
04/24/49 and Tientsin have not been molested -- so far!
04/24/49 Students hawever restricted to places within sight of school
04/28/49 Sports event: Long jump cancelled due to rain
04/30/49 Paul Grant and Dave Allen climb trees with Lower 3 and Upper 2
boys
04/30/49 Also play game of getting to opposite of field. 2 against maybe 15.
04/30/49 They jumped on us and we tried to shake them off and get to the
04/30/49 other end of ball field.
All boys had fun, nobody gets mad.
04/30/49 Mr Houghton shows picture of Baden Powell and scout Jamboree
04/30/49 My Long jump distance 12 ft 6 inches. Wet runway.
04/30/49 Miss Stark loans me book about "Eric Liddell"
Scotlands #1 Athlete
04/30/49 Died in Weihsien May 3, 1945;
My records say Feb. 7, 1945
05/02/49 Cricketball throw: 188
ft 4 inches. Won by Dave Allen
05/02/49 John Pearce: 187 ft 11
inches; John Martin: 182 ft 7 inches
05/02/49 Long Jump: Winner -- Dave Allen, then Brian Taylor and 3 for
3rd
05/03/49 Shot put finals: 28 ft
5 inches Winner Dave Allen
05/03/49 Paul Grant: 27ft 9 inches ... 8 pound shot.
05/03/49 220 yd run: Keith
Butler 1st, John Pearce 2nd; Dave Allen
3rd.
05/04/49 Semi finals: 90 yds dash... Qualified 2nd place
05/04/49 High jump heats: qualified at 4 ft 1inch with 3 others.
05/04/49 880 yd race: Keith
Butler 1st 2 min 47 sec.
05/04/49 Maurice Longdon middle school athlete: 880 yd run: 3 min 1 sec.
05/05/49 Paul Grant, Christopher Rowe and Dave Allen do tumbling stunts.
05/05/49 The Centipede, The Elephant, and the Camel" found in book
05/05/49 Health by Stunts.
05/06/49 Today was mark reading:
Scores for all our classes. I've
gone up
05/06/49 9% overall to 71%. Not
great by standards over here but the scholarly
05/06/49 competition was a lot
tougher. Still bottom of the class but
improving.
05/06/49 I would always marvel at Ridley Smith's scores ... just out of sight.
05/06/49 Genius type. I would
admire his scores in everything..
05/06/49 Piano recital: Jim Muir
was terrific.
05/06/49 I stumbled on my piece:
Chinese boat song.
05/06/49 2:00 pm started official Sports day competitions:
05/06/49 90 yards dash: I came in 4th
05/06/49 200 yds dash: James
Muir first; Dave Allen second.
05/06/49 High Jump: 4 ft 3
inches winner Dave Allen
05/06/49 Broad jump: Dave
Allen 15 ft; Brian Taylor 12 ft 4 inches
05/06/49 440 yds run: Keith
Butler, John Pearce, Jim Muir
05/06/49 Hector and Achilles team races: Hector 4 wins; Achilles 3 wins
05/06/49 I was on Hector's team.
05/06/49 Staff teachers vs Upper School Boys: Upper School boys win.
De:
"Greg Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Ouiji Weihsien
Date: lundi 28 avril 2003 15:46
Hello All,
One of the aspects of my
project on internment camp life is to cover the games, sports, and pastimes
which went on in camp. One of my
correspondents related the following account of Ouiji. Since it was mentioned at Weihsien I thought
others might enjoy reading about this.
"There was another game
which we played in the Dining Hall that I should mention, although I suppose
that it is really not a game in the truest sense of the word but I have no idea
how else to describe it - certainly it was a game in the way in which we played
it - and that was the Ouija. Usually used in spiritualistic seances and participated
in the privacy of closed, often darkened, rooms - we only had the Dining Hall.
Never the less we did make one concession to the "spirits" that we
contacted in that we did try to find a table in a more quiet corner of the
hall. I am not sure how we managed to hear of the Ouija but I believe that
there were a few adults in camp who had an interest in spiritual matters and
somehow we must have heard about it.
" We wrote the letters of
the alphabet in capitals, the figures from 0 - 10 and the words YES and NO in
pencil on scraps of paper - placed the letters and figures in a circle on the
table in alphabetical and numerical order and finally put the Yes and No, set
apart, in the middle of the circle. For the planchette we always, and this was
without exception, used the same heavily bruised and battered aluminium cup
(complete with handle).
I have no idea who owned the cup but it always seemed to appear when we
needed it. It was a bit of an obligatory with us, we would not play unless we
had that particular aluminium cup, no other cup would have done.
" About five or six of us
would participate at a time, each with the tips of two fingers on the cup. We
would Call Up the name of a dead person, usually a deceased member of one of
our families and if the cup moved to Yes, supposedly indicating that he or she
was present - away we would go. We used to have great fun, often asking the
spirit the most outrageous questions only to receive equally outrageous
answers. The cup used to move alright, sometimes it would fly around the circle
spelling out an answer, that was probably when we were all ad idem. Other times
the cup would remain quite stationary and then it was probably because we would
all have been pushing against each other. And then there were times when we all
swore that we would not cheat and push the cup and the cup would still move and
spell something out. It was at those times that we said "Well, bless my
soul!" - or some such other phrase!! But who would ever have believed Joey
when he said that he had not been pushing, with his sense of humour and his
imagination, he was in his element in this game. Who would have believed any of
us for that matter.
I suppose that we did not
start using the Ouija until we were about into the second half of our stay in
Camp and on reflection I am surprised that our various religious leaders did
not try to put a stop to us, harmless though it was. Although the participation
in the Ouija is frowned upon and I believe actively discouraged in the Catholic
Church, more so then than now, neither of the two Fathers warned us against it.
Perhaps that is what they thought, that it was harmless. Though one would have
thought that endeavouring to communicate with the dead by children at any time,
even in fun, would not have been acceptable by any of the churches. Never the
less, as one can imagine we had some hilarious moments.
De: "Albert
Dezutter" <albertdezutter@worldnet.att.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte
Spam: Re: Historic day.
4/09/2003
Date: lundi 28
avril 2003 18:54
David: in reference to your mention of "3-1/2 years in this prison
camp":
The very first contingent of internees, from Tsingtao, were brought to
the camp in March 1943, the Chefoo kids sometime later. March 1943 to September
1945 is 2-1/2 years. It just seemed like an eternity.
Albert de Zutter
De: "Laura
Hope-Gill" <laurahopegill@aol.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Alerte
Spam: Re: Ouiji Weihsien
Date: lundi 28
avril 2003 21:35
In regards to games, my grandmother told me, and writes of it in her
notes, that bridge was a popular game
in the camp, not just because it was a
challenging card game but also because it provided adults a
"cover" for discussing more
serious matters going on, i.e. the black market. According to Granny,
adults were not permitted to gather in numbers greater than 4. Hence, bridge proved the perfect
"game" in more ways than one.
best to all,
Laura
De: "David Birch"
<gdavidbirch@yahoo.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Gatherings of Adults
at Weihsien
Date: mardi 29 avril 2003 4:57
Adults often gathered in numbers of far more than four at Weihsien.
Although I was a child in those days (thirteen at war's end), I was
certainly aware of the fact that large numbers of adults gathered each Sunday
morning for church services. I know that there were Bible study and prayer
meeting groups during the week as well. Then there were drama groups who put on
plays and concerts. Even the Salvation Army band never had any trouble
gathering to practice and perform.
Maybe there was some basis for the idea that groups larger than four
adults were not permitted to assemble, but I'd be surprised if so.
David Birch
Laura Hope-Gill
<laurahopegill@aol.com> wrote:In regards to games, my grandmother told
me, and writes of it in her notes, that bridge was a popular game in the camp,
not just because it was a challenging card game but also because it provided
adults a "cover" for discussing more serious matters going on, i.e.
the black market. According to Granny,
adults were not permitted to gather in numbers greater than 4. Hence, bridge proved the perfect
"game" in more ways than one.
best to all,
Laura
De: "Natasha Petersen"
<natasha@infionline.net>
À: "weihsien"
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: more than four
Date: mardi 29 avril 2003 14:29
I agree with you, David B., I do not remember that more than four were
not allowed to gather. During the warm
evenings, young and old gathered outdoors to chit chat etc.
Natasha
wish I had kept notes as you did in Weihsien, David. What an
incredible record you have!
I thought the tolling of the bell at midnight from Block 24 was the celebration of the Victory in Europe, not
the escape of Hummel and Tipton. I
certainly remember the Japanese summuning us out of bed for a
lengthy midnight roll call as a result
of the ringing of the bell. Who else has a recollections of that night?
Mary Previte
.I do remember that night. We were told
that there had been an escape....however...we did not know who they
were. I remember it being so very cold.........I also felt very
apprehensive at the situation...wondering what was going to happen next.
As for the roll call...it seemed like it would never end that
night.
Kathleen Rictor (Nordmo)
De: "David
Birch" <gdavidbirch@yahoo.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: more than four
Date: mardi 29 avril 2003 21:40
Thank you Natasha. Also I recall that we had both indoor and outdoor
concerts and gatherings in the church, Kitchen One, and out behind Block 23.
And of course roll call afforded lots of time for meeting with crowds of both
adults and children. We often assembled for roll call a good hour before the
guards arrived to count us.
David
De: "David
Birch" <gdavidbirch@yahoo.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: more than four
Date: mardi 29 avril 2003 21:43
Thanks Kathleen for the confirmation.
David
De: "David M.
Allen" <dandya@fidalgo.net>
À: "Weihsien
internees" <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Fw: Foundation Day
Date: mardi 29
avril 2003 23:59
KULING Part 5 May 22 -
June 19, 1949
05/23/49 This afternoon was filed with tumbling exercises in the Gym.
05/24/49 I was creating a carom board and attaching the wire loops at
the corners.
Found a rusted lock
that I sawed into, to see the inner workings.
05/25/49 Played cricket ... bowled out on first pitch. Wow, did I feel
stupid.
In the game someone
hit a flyball, Stanley Austin and John Martin ran for it.
Stanley lost a tooth
and John got a deep gouge in his skull and missed the
ball. Both survived wondering what hit them.
05/28/49 Sat. Fixed stamps in
stamp album. Now have 514 stuck
in. The album
was confiscated on
our trip out of China. Lots of great
Chinese stamps.
05/29/49 Received letter from Mitu mailed 04/12 on 05/29/49
Memories of Tali
flood my mind. I am saddened.
I am reminded of
the Erhai Lake, the streams which come rushing down
the mountains; the
city wall; Dr Watson and his rifle; David Cook; getting
sod for Mr Snow's
garden and lawn; the rainy night when
the wall fell in;
the feast at Mr
Li's house and the long road into Tali; the grave of Ronald,
Ruth's twin; the
Tali ice-cream of snow and treacle.
06/01/49 Went to Library to find designs for kites I could build. I liked the Siamese
kite and the 5 star
kite the best.
06/04/49 Fri. We played cricket.
1 bowl in cricket can put you out and 3 strikes in
baseball. I like baseball better.
06/05/49 Paul and I went fishing with Mr Hulse. Caught only
shrimp (tiny fish).
I lost tin of
worms, frog and Paul's fishing hooks in stream.
06/06/49 We are being rationed now.
The cost of rice has gone up 250%.
Letter mailed
06/06/49 Received in Mitu 02/08/50
Note from Stanley
Houghton: All peaceful here. Prices soaring now.
Faith and patience
are the stock requirements these days. Your family
are all well.
06/06/49 Mr Brailey had a competition in the gym to find the six best
gymnasts to
prepare for the gym
team. We also had jousts on sawhorse
and parallel
bars to see who
could survive the longest. There were
mats if you fell.
06/07/49 In Craft class I worked on Ruth's kite and then fixed a wire
mast so I
could pull up a
mast on my wooden boat.
06/08/49 Wed afternoon: Had a
physical examination ... now 5 ft 9 in. and 137 albs
Had a haircut and
piano practice. Dr Pierce looking at
the fluoroscope said I
have a little more
to grow.
06/09/49 Played 500. Catch the
fly = 100; 1 bouncer =75; 2 bouncer =50; If you flub the
ball minus the
amount you would have made if
successful.
06/10/49 Cricket in the afternoon.
They had the better players but we won.
I made a score of
six..
06/11/49 Paul and I went to the cemetery, collected pine cones and had
fun dodging
the whirring
missiles.
Note by Mr.
Houghton: David's French is going ahead
even more rapidly
than I dared to
expect.
Gladys Tweddell
received a letter from home and shared with us. We share
our info with her
and Tom Tweddell. That's how we share
the news.
06/13/49 In our gym class:
Jousting. Rider on back of
person against other team
James Muir was on
my back ... we won our joust.
06/14/49 Concert at Tyng's. We sang from song books and then some boating songs
Leander side Boys
compete against Girls Hero side. You
run to the YES or NO
chair with the
answer. The boys won by a point or
two. Then Mr Martin read
a made up story
about Chefoo.
06/15/49 We switched Thursday schoolwork for Wednesday so we could have
a
holiday the next
day
06/16/49 After breakfast we salute the flag, with scouts on one side and
guides on
the other.
We are celebrating Foundation day ( founding of the CIM) or
Lammermuir Day. Went to Church of Ascension and had a
Foundation Day
Service. At 11:00 we had a cricket game. Their side won with a score of 44.
I made a score of 10 for our side.. After this we had a tennis tournament.
Men teachers played
older students in baseball The teachers
won 27-25.
The score was 14
Teachers to 2 students at the beginning.
Nearly caught
up to teachers by last inning. Teachers present concert
in evening:
06/17/49 Friday afternoon involved in cricket match.
06/18/49 Paul and I go up to the cemetery for our pine cone fun.
06/19/49 Letter mailed from Kuling 06/19/49 received in Mitu 03/13/50
De: "Laura
Hope-Gill" <laurahopegill@aol.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: more than four
Date: mercredi 30 avril 2003 0:54
A very interesting discrepancy indeed.
It seems that the larger gatherings
tend to have some purpose, a focus.
Is it possible that adults were
prohibited from gathering in private quarters in numbers greater than
four outside the auspices of organized
events. Grace Hope-Gill does mention
the dances and other functions. She was 25 years old upon release.
At any rate, here is what she writes about bridge:
"In winter the bridge game was played over a small fire of twigs
and coal balls set in the center of the
table. Once, the small fire became a
big fire, burned the deck as well as a
hole right through the table. It
was against the rules to have a fire
going in a room, however all the prisoners
did it anyway and seldom was anyone punished for it."
This is taken in notation from tapes I recorded of her speaking.
Laura
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Adult education and
lectures at Weihsien
Date: mercredi 30 avril 2003 1:19
Mrs. Eileen Bazire, a Chefoo teacher who was assigned the job of
scheduling events in the church at
Weihsien, showed me the water color posters she made to announce all kinds of programs -- concerts and lectures -- in
Weihsien. I visited her and her husband in Bath. England, in 1985 when I was gathering information for a magazine article I was writing.
She pointed out the Japanese "chop" marks on the posters that
indicated that the Japanese had
approved the sign to be posted.
Mrs. Bazire was both an artist and a musician. She told me she had the best
job in Weihsien.
On another subject, I've just
received news of the death on April 7 of
Jennie K. Fitzwilliam, mother of our Chefoo classmate, Jackie Fitzwilliam. She was just 12 days short of 100 years of
age. She and her husband had been missionaries to the Lisu people of
southwest China. When her husband died of typhus, she came to Chefoo. I thought Jackie and his mother were in Chefoo's Temple Hill internment camp and in
Weihsien, but I can't find them on the
list of prisoners. Could they have been repatriated on the Gripsholm?
Mary Previte
De: "Mary
Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: midnight bell
Date: mercredi 30 avril 2003 1:36
Alas, your news is coming through as unreadable codes. Can you send them again?
Mary Previte
De: "Greg
Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: more than four
Date: mercredi 30 avril 2003 1:42
I've interviewed well over 50 people, including ex Weihsienites, from
over a dozen camps and no one has mentioned any prohibition against groups
gathering. There were all sorts of
activities and events going on which would have been impossible should this
have been a rule.
In most camps a set of rules were read out on the first day, and I have
seen copies of these. Again, no
prohibitions against gathering.
Greg
De: "Greg
Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: Adult education
and lectures at Weihsien
Date: mercredi 30 avril 2003 2:04
Both Jennie K. Fitzwilliam and Francis Fitzwilliam, Americans, were
interned at Temple Hill Internment camp.
Temple Hill was moved in I believe two groups to Weihsien. Originally there were to be four
groups. The first group consisted of
those who were to be repatriated from Shanghai on the Teia Maru. They departed. Then, the Japanese decided to move everyone remaining all at once
and this caused some problems for the internees as many were not ready.
I will check my lists to see if the Fitzwilliams were repatriated in
1943.
While on this subject, can anyone who was at Weihsien when the
repatriates left recall if internees from the British Embassy Compound, Peking,
or the Mukden internment camp in Manchuria, came to Weihsien first before
heading down to Shanghai for repatriation?
I'm wondering if those who were repatriated from Peking and Manchuria
joined the Temple Hill and Weihsien repatriates to make up one big group to
head down to Shanghai, or did they go to Shanghai separately.
The Gripsholm list doesn't indicate from which camp repatriates came
from.
And I know of no contemporaneous Weihsien list which predates
repatriation, so it becomes nearly impossible to determine who was repatriated
from Weihsien. By extracting names from
accounts such as Wilder's and Galt's a partial list can be built up but there
are still about 120 or the 300 odd
repatriates who have yet to be identified.
Greg
De: "Donald
Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: Adult education
and lectures at Weihsien
Date: mercredi 30 avril 2003 6:11
Greg.
I was really pleased to see you mention the accounts of Wilder and Galt
as useful in establishing who was in
the camp before repatriation. Maybe
if everyone listed all the names they
could remember it would be helpful to you.
De: "Dwight
W. Whipple" <thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Adult education
and lectures at Weihsien
Date: mercredi 30 avril 2003 7:00
Fascinating reading all the messages about folk we shared life with so
long ago. For general information, my
father, Elden Whipple, just moved from independent living in a retirement
facility to the assisted living section at Warm Beach, Stanwood,
Washington. He will be 98 years old
this coming Sunday, May 4th. Just
yesterday he went to the library in town to get six more books to read. And he is still very alert and active. His sister, Lois Walton, also from Weihsien,
died last fall at Warm Beach, age 95; and their brother, Grant, age 92, lives
in retirement in Bellingham, Washington.
~Dwight Whipple
De: "Greg
Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: Adult education
and lectures at Weihsien
Date: mercredi 30 avril 2003 14:43
I checked the Gripsholm list of passengers arriving in New York. Almost everyone from the Teia Maru went
there, though a few got off in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and the Latin
Americans left in Rio. Both Jennie K.
and Francis Fitzwilliam were repatriated on the Teia Maru / Gripsholm.
Donald's suggestion is helpful.
If anyone recalls people from either Temple Hill or Weihsien who were
repatriated I'll check my list of repatriates to try to identify them and sift
them out of the hoard of repatriates from Shanghai camps.
Greg
De: "Greg Leck"
<gregleck@epix.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: Laundry
Date: dimanche 4 mai 2003 23:05
Temple Hill
Complex consisted of three compounds and was in Chefoo (not at the CIM
School). Internees there (many Chefoo
students and staff) were moved to Weihsien in September 1943.
-----Original Message-----
From: Natasha Petersen
[mailto:natasha@infionline.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:12 AM
To: weihsien@topica.com
Subject: Re: Laundry
Greg,
Where was the camp Temple Hill?
We in Weihsien used cold water for laundry,
very little soap, and lots of elbow grease.
Natasha Petersen
De: "Mary Previte"
<mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: : Fwd: Laundry
Date: dimanche 4 mai 2003 23:49
Robin
Hoyte and I were the stokers in the basement laundry. There were laundry
lines just outside the hospital. Each school group had a turn with the
laundry work.
Norman. Please convey this to the Weihsien pool.
De: "Mary Previte"
<mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: : Re:
A Girls point of view
Date: lundi 5 mai 2003 0:04
You can
connect with Elizabeth Edwards and Wanda Hazelton Humble through Theo Hayman,
Chairman of the Chefoo Australian Branch, 22 Alice Street Macquarie
Fields, NSW 2564, Australia
Mary
Previte
De: "Donald Menzi"
<dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Chefoo-ites and Repatriates
Date: lundi 5 mai 2003 8:37
The
repatriates left camp on Sept. 14. The
question of whether the Chefoo group arrived before or after repatriation is
hardly in doubt, based on the following entries in my grandfather, George
Wilder's diary: It was apparently
believed in the camp that some, if not all, were going to be sent to the U.S.
Do any of
you Chefoo-ites remember who the young Mr. and Mrs. Murray and
Dr. Young
were?
========================================
Aug. 31
People came at last from Chefoo -- 60, with
300 more to come -- on their way to the U.S., but not forewarned of coming here
for three weeks. Young
Mr. &
Mrs. MacMurray, (with two 2 girls) -- Canadians -- and Dr. Young are the only ones we know.
Sept. 9
The 300
Chefoo people, several over 80, came dragging in, very weary.
=======================================
The Chefoo group included several people who
later wrote about their experiences in
Weihsien: David Michell, A Boy's War,
published by the Overseas Missionary
Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission), Singapore, 1988; Norman Cliff, Courtyard of the Happy
Way, Arthur James Limited, Evesham,
Worcs, 1977; and Mary Taylor Previte, Hungry Ghosts, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, 1994. These are all available, either new or
through on-line used book dealers such
as abe.com, bibliofind.com, alibris.com and
powells.com.
The
following excerpt from Norman cliff's book may be of interest:
=========================================================
. . . We rattled and bumped along a dusty
road for several miles past Chinese
farm fields. What we gathered must be Weihsien Camp sprang into view.
Rows of juniper trees, long lines of dormitory blocks, the
red-tiled roof of an Edwardian style
churchCall surrounded by a wall with electrified wires and with cement boxes here and there.
The lorry
bounced along the rough road and turned a corner through some trees. We were
now driving towards the entrance of the camp, a large Chinese gate, over which
were three Chinese characters meaning “Courtyard of the Happy Way."
Japanese guards with bayonets were standing on duty.
We were driven through the gate, past the
guardroom on the left, and up the
hill; the lorry stopped on the central road of the camp. On our right was the church building and beyond it a
sports field.
The
streets were lined with hundreds of internees staring at us curiously.
The men
wore only khaki shorts, were bare-foot, tanned with working in the sun, and
looked like creatures from another world. As we clambered off the lorries they
cheered and surrounded us excitedly, asking all kinds of questions. Their
accents were American, Russian, Greek and British, a cosmopolitan group indeed.
We were
herded through a Moon Gate into a courtyard which was outside the administrative offices. There we stood
listening while the chairman of the camps Discipline Committee, a fellow
internee, read out the camp rules and
regulations.
The story
of our arrival in Weihsien as seen by the local inhabitants is recounted in the following poem,
entitled "The Two Hundred and
Ninety-seven"
A Hooray!
The Chefooites have all arrived at last!
Right
heartily we cheered them as through the gates they passed.
They
trudged up Guardhouse Hill, their baggage in the lead,
We
"Servers" nudged each other: "Great Scott, more mouths to feed!
That's
not a nice expression but our rations were so low
And they
had come from what we'd call luxury, you know.
They
joined the Tsingtao Kitchen, school-children big and small;
We fed
them on bread porridge, and they ate it, one and all!
We felt
sorry for them when we filled their cups with bitter tea,
But they
said, "If you can drink it without sugar, so can we."
Then came
a real calamity, the camp ran out of yeast.
Our
manager said, "Doughnuts! Make twelve hundred at least!"
The boys
soon took to "Pumping" and other hard work too;
Some
girls became dishwashers, others joined the kitchen crew.
We've
grown fond of these school-children who so bravely stood the test
And
should they ever need our help, we'll gladly do our best!
(G. E. Norman)
De: "Donald Menzi"
<dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Chefoo and Repatriates (again)
Date: lundi 5 mai 2003 8:40
On
reading more carefully Greg Leck's and my own recent email, I see that the
first group to arrive was, indeed, destined to be repatriated. Also that I asked about the Murrays instead
of the MacMurrays. So, does anyone
remember the MacMurrays or Dr. Young?
De: "David Birch"
<gdavidbirch@yahoo.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Date: lundi 5 mai 2003 8:53
Thanks,
Donald, for the careful documentation!
As one of the Chefooites who was there, though I was not quite twelve at
the time, I very clearly recall seeing Dwight Whipple's father, Mr. Elden
Whipple Sr., at Weihsien. The Whipple family, in those days, were close friends
of my family. My parents and Dwight's parents had served together on the same
mission station in Anhwei. The Birch children called Mr. Whipple 'Uncle Elden,'
in fact. Mr. Whipple was a good pianist, and I remember him, even today,
playing the piano in the large church on Sunday at Weihsien Camp. Dwight's
Uncle Nathan and Aunt Lois Walton, and their two little children were also at
Weihsien, though I do not recall them. I think the reason I recall Uncle Elden
is that he was up at the front of the church and very conspicuous as he played
the piano on probably his last Sunday at Weihsien in September 1943.Following
the war, the Whipples, for a while, headed the China Inland Mission's Vancouver
office. At that time our family was farming nearby in the Fraser Valley. We
used to get together for a picnic in the summer, on our farm. And the Birches
were always invited to the Whipples' home in Vancouver on Boxing Day in the
winter.As Dwight has mentioned in his e-mails, his father is still alive and
very well and active, mentally and physically, and living not far from Seattle.
My wife and I were privileged to attend Lois Walton's memorial service a couple
of months ago at the Firs Conference grounds on the shore of Lake Whatcom at
Bellingham, Washington. Mr. Elden Whipple, Sr., and I had a most pleasant chat
as this wonderful 98-yr-old Christian statesman recalled very clearly the good
times our two families enjoyed together six decades ago! My own mother, Grace
Lilian Birch, will be ninety-eight on May 13th, just nine days from now. Sadly
Mother's memory has been taken by a series of strokes. But she rests
comfortably and is given excellent care at a very good seniors' manor near
here.SincerelyDavid Birchgdavidbirch@yahoo.com
De: "Donald Menzi"
<dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: : Fwd:
Date: lundi 5 mai 2003 17:56
Norman
Cliff sent me the following correction to my email.
It's
great that Norman and others have published their memories in book form.
I have found them all to be excellent.
>From:
Cliffnorman@aol.com
>Date:
Mon, 5 May 2003 03:03:34 EDT
>Subject:
Fwd:
>To:
dmenzi@asan.com
>X-Mailer:
7.0 for Windows sub 540
>
>Dear
Donald,
> My e-mailer is giving me trouble. Please pass on to the others that my COURTYARD OF THE HAPPY WAY is not
available from the publisher, which
does not exist, but from myself. Cost
£5.00 plus 10% postage.
I also have a book PRISONERS OF THE
SAMURAI (£8.95 plus 10%) which covers
all the internment camps in China and Hong Kong.
> Greetings, Norman
De: "Mary Previte"
<mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Chefoo to Weihsien move
Date: mardi 6 mai 2003 2:57
Hello,
Greg,
"DIFFICULT"
! What a carefully chosen word to
describe our Chefoo Schools' being
shipped from captivity in Chefoo (Yantai) to
Tsingtao and
Weihsien! Oh, my sakes! All I remember is retching, retching, retching into the sea --
and more retching, more retching, and more retching. Whether it's true or not, I always say that we hit the tail end
of typhoon on that trip.
We slept
in the hold of the ship, crammed in
like sardines. The lorries trucking us
to Weihsien were almost a relief.
Mary
Previte
De: "Mary Previte"
<mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: : Chefoo's Temple Hill
Date: mardi 6 mai 2003 3:16
Natasha,
When the Japanese commandeered our Chefoo
School to make it into a naval base, they marched us across town and interned
us in a Presbyterian mission compound in the Temple Hill area of the city --
yes, just below the temple on the hill.
Most of us were crammed into three houses that had been residences of
missionaries. The Presbyterians had run
the Temple Hill Hospital in the same neighbourhood of Chefoo (Yantai). Right in that hospital, Dr. Young and
Nurse
Luce saved my life on my 7th birthday in 1939 after my appendix ruptured.
I often
ponder the miracles in the Weihsien story.
In 1939, our father and mother had purchased steamer tickets for our
whole family to return to the safety of the United States. But they returned the steamer tickets after
praying about this decision and feeling quite sure that God had called them to
serve Him in China -- in war or peace.
So I was
in Chefoo when my appendix ruptured in September 1932 -- not on a ship in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean where there was no surgeon.
Mary
Previte
De: "Mary Previte"
<mtprevite@aol.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: : Re: Chefoo-ites and
Repatriates
Date: mardi 6 mai 2003 3:22
Thank
you, Donald, for this beautiful recollection from Norman Clff's book.
I love
that poem!
Mary
Previte
De: "Joyce Cook"
<bobjoyce@tpg.com.au>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Interior Heating
Date: mardi 6 mai 2003 4:33
My family
of four had a stove in our family room in block two, which was the only two
story small block with the de Zutters above us. It was either a mud or brick
stove and was in the corner when we took up residence. We made many coal balls
and dried them in what sun there was. We did our own laundry and made our own
clothes line in our little compound, which about six families shared. We had a
tin tub with two handles and a scrubbing board. I remember Gerry Thomas's show
in which his stepdaughter Tisha and I participated. It was called
"Professor Thomas and his Stewdents" (sic) In it I remember singing a solo ' Daddy wouldn't buy me a
bow-wow" ! and a duet with Tisha,"September in the rain" as we
sat on the grand piano which was in the church. I do not remember anyone asking
for an encore! I met Tisha in London about three years ago and we had gaotse
and gorged ourselves in a Chinese Restaurant.
PS - I
too remember the bed bugs but does anyone else remember all the scorpions
inside the mosquito nets?
Regards.
Joyce Bradbury.
De: "David Birch"
<gdavidbirch@yahoo.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Chefoo to Weihsien move/on the Kyodo Maru
28
Date: mardi 6 mai 2003 4:39
Mary and
Greg et al, I well remember the ship, which carried us from Chefoo to Qingdao.
And I recall that its name was the 'Kyodo Maru 28.' I remember trying to get to
sleep on a woven straw mat on a sloping covered deck floor about one level
below the main deck. I don't remember having any blanket to keep me warm. I was
twelve and a half at the time. But it was all a great adventure. In those days
most of us children did not know enough to feel any fear of what might happen
to us. I did not know until recently that all of us were in very real peril, at
the end of the war, of being shot as the last act of the Japanese before taking
their own lives. Truly God, and our wise teachers and other staff, were good to
us. Interestingly, a vessel which might have been a 'twin' of the Kyodo Maru 28
was exhibited in Vancouver at EXPO 86, when this 'world's fair' was held in our
city here. I had the opportunity to board this Japanese vessel in the summer of
1986 and to walk in the very 'hold' which corresponded to the one where I'd
passed a restless night or two back in 1943.1943! Nostalgia time! Sixty years
ago this very year! David Birch gdavidbirch@yahoo.com
De: "Donald Menzi"
<dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: : Re:
Chefoo-ites and Repatriates
Date: mardi 6 mai 2003 4:47
Yes,
isn't it great. The real thanks goes to
Norman, for including it.
From: Donald & Kathleen Rictor
To: weihsien
Sent: Tuesday,
May 06, 2003 5:00 AM
Subject: FW: Re: Chefoo to Weihsien
move/on the Kyodo Maru 28
I remember
the hole that we slept in ....we kept the lights on because of all the
bugs.......I remember feeling very crowded....
I also
remember the roll call on deck each day.....Kathleen Rictor
De: "Greg Leck" <gregleck@epix.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: Chefoo to Weihsien move/on the Kyodo Maru 28
Date: mardi 6
mai 2003 19:47
Thanks,
David for supplying the name of that vessel.
Others in
China were moved about on some rustbuckets.
The Maya Maru took many Shanghai people who were captured in Manila back
to Shanghai in 1942.
They
shared the hold with captured horses from the US Cavalry units in the
Philippines. More than one internee
reported the horses were treated better than they were.
Internees
from Swatow and Amoy were moved on a boat they sarcastically nicknamed the
"Sunshine Maru."
Greg
De: "Donald Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: A New Member
Date: mercredi
7 mai 2003 4:41
Please
enroll my wife, Jane, in the group. Her
email address is
Thanks.
De: "Mahlon Horton"
<berean@lincsat.com>
À: "M.D. Horton" <berean@lincsat.com>
Objet: Alerte Spam: New e-mail address
Date: samedi
10 mai 2003 22:02
This is
to let you know that we have a new e-mail address. Thank you.
Mahlon
& Audrey Horton
Our
computer has been down.
De:
"Gladys Swift" <glaswift@cstone.net>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Bibliography
on Weihsien
Date: dimanche
11 mai 2003 2:52
o Don
Menzie - You don't mention Mary Taylor Previte's "A Song of Salvation at
Weihsien Prison Camp". I have a
copy of the original of August 25, 1985,
from the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, pp 24-32.
I'm sure
others have copies also.
De: "Donald Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re:
Bibliography on Weihsien
Date: lundi 12
mai 2003 20:26
Thanks,
Gladys. I don't pretend to have a
complete bibliography, and I don't
think I have that one.
Mary,
could you send me a copy? My fax number
is 646-344-7299. Thanks.
De: "Mary Previte" <mtprevite@aol.com>
À:
<weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re:
Bibliography on Weihsien
Date: mardi 13
mai 2003 3:02
I can't
fax this article, Donald. The pages are too big. What's your
address?
Mary
De: "Donald Menzi" <dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Bibliography on Weihsien
Date: mardi 13 mai 2003 16:43
My
address is 5 East 10th Street, New York, NY
10003.
Thanks.
Donald Menzi
May
12, 2003 11:24 PDT
Thanks, Gladys. I don't pretend to have a complete
bibliography, and I don't think I have that one.
Mary, could you send me a copy? My fax number is
646-344-7299. Thanks.
I can't fax this article, Donald. The pages are too
big. What's your address?
Mary
My address is 5 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003.
Thanks.
From Gladys Hubbard Swift - This came to me from
Norman Cliff, author of "PRISONERS
OF THE SAMURAI, Japanese Civilian Camps in China, 1941-1945" a copy of
which he sent to me.
I am glad
that Samurai arrived safely. Would you
do me a favour and advise the Weihsien group about it? Many of the things which
they have been discussing have their answer in Samurai.
Greetings, Norman
About the book (on the back), "This is a unique
book, in that for the first time a description has been given of all the
Japanese civilian internment camps in China and Hong Kong. Here the story is
told of the major events affecting Allied personnel in China following the raid
on Pearl Harbor. A brief history is given of each of the internment camps - the
food, the accommodation and experiences of the inmates. Certain conclusions are
formed about the failure of the Japanese government to make adequate provisions
for the 11,000 prisoners, half of whom were women and children. The defeat of
the Japanese could have ended in the wholesale killing of prisoners, but
providentially they were released after the Japanese surrender without any such
incidents."
"Dr. Norman Cliff was interned in his late teens,
first in Temple Hill, Chefoo, and then in Weixian Camp. He has written of his
experiences in these two camps in his widely read 'Courtyard of the Happy
Way'...The reader will form a picture of squalor, malnutrition and cramped
accommodation, but will also be surprised to meet individual Japanese, who
acted with humanity and kindness amid the tensions of war."
Hello, Everybody:
Someone
sent me a paperback book today that includes a chapter on Weihsien:
UNDER HIS WINGS, The Story of A China Missionary in
Wartime, by Mary Payseur, published by OMS International, Box A, Greenwood, IN,
46142 The book is copyrighted in 2002.
The writer
was interned in Weihsien, March 26, 1943, and repatriated on the Teia Maru and
the Gripsholm, leaving Weihsien on September 15, 1945. She names other Oriental
Missionary Society evacuees on the Gripsholm as Harry and Emily Woods, their 4
children, and Annie Kartozian.
For those
of you who keep a Weihsien bibliography, the author refers to several other
books about Weihsien: He Goes Before Them by Meredith and Christine Helsby,
Mary Scott's Kept in Safeguard, and Langdon Gilkey's Shantung Compound.
I was
interested in the job assignments she writes about from her days in Weihsien.
She was a member of the vegetable crew with responsibility for washing and
preparing vegetables. She mentions stokers who kept the fires going under the
giant food kettles. She mentions those on latrine duty -- who were permitted a
shower a day when everyone else was rationed to one shower a week.
Who else can tell us about your job assignment?
Carol
Orlich, the widow of Peter Orlich, the youngest on the Weihsien liberation
team, will celebrate her 82nd birthday on June 13. If you'd like to send her a
card, her address is 15727 20th Road, Whiteston, NY 11357. Phone:
718-746-8122 What an astonishing woman
Carol is -- pure gold. She loves hearing every memory anyone has of Pete.
Mary
Previte
Hi Everyone
Good to hear of other references to Weihsien. I have
come across one such one, too. It is "The Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart,
Missionary and Ambassador--FIFTY YEARS
IN CHINA" with a prefatory note by General George C. Marshall,
introduction by Dr. Hu Shih, written, according to the Foreword, in 1954. Stuart was a Presbyterian
missionary, president of Yenching University and later Ambassador to China. It
is a fascinating piece of history but of special interest to us who were in
Weihsien camp during the war years I will quote this paragraph:
"After repeated delays, I was at last able to
travel on an airplane scheduled to stop at Weihsein in Shantung where all
British and American nationals in north China had been interned by the
Japanese. So without any warning I literally dropped from the clouds upon this
camp where the unfortunate internees were still being kept, although it was
then almost six weeks after V-J Day. Among them making possible another delightful
reunion were Yenching faculty colleagues and many friends or acquaintances.
During the twenty-four hours of the stop there, I was able to compare their
circumstances with those of our trio. Physically we had undoubtedly been better
off. In housing, food, service, etc., we were more comfortable.
They were very crowded and had to do all their own
work, while forced to an intimacy with all sorts of people. We had privacy and
leisure in abundance, but it was deadly lonesome and monotonous. They were able
to organize not only for cooking, laundry, scavenges, etc., but also for
social, religious, athletic and educational activities which gave occupation
and a sense of being usefully busy" (page 156-157).
Interesting comparisons. Being with others in a sense
of community may have been worth more to us in Weihsien than we will ever know.
My sister, Lorna, presented this book (quoted above) to me (she found it in a
used book store or in a garage sale) on the occasion a couple of weeks ago when
our family was together to move our Dad, Elden C. Whipple, Sr., into assisted
living.
It was also his 98th birthday. He is doing fine,
continues to play the piano, takes leadership parts in ministry at his
retirement place. He may be the oldest living survivor of Weihsien camp. Anyone
know of an older person?
Keep the dialogue going. It is good to be in touch
with so many. I often wonder how many of us are left?
~Dwight W. Whipple
Dear John,
Just to let you know I hope to arrive at 12 noon,
tomorrow, Saturday.
I have a number of things from Weihsien I think you
will find of interest, plus a few from the Iltis Hydro in Tsingtao.
regards,
Greg
Dear Greg.
Pardon me for intruding into your message to
'John" but as a former inmate of Iltis Hydro I am always interested in
"things" from that first CAC of ours - presumably (hopefully) photos,
trivia etc. You have excited my imagination. Is there anything amongst your
possessions that you could tell me about? Regards. Joyce Bradbury.
Mary, do you happen to have the ISBN number for UNDER
HIS WINGS?
Also, the Oriental Missionary Society had a compound
in Canton, China, which was a CAC and several OMS people were interned there.
Does the author mention if the Woods and Annie Kartozian were actually
repatriated from Weihsien or from another camp?
Speaking of jobs in camp, I have spoken to both Alan
Moyler and John de Zutter, who both spent time pumping water into the water
towers in camp.
Greg
UNDER HIS WINGS, The Story of A China Missionary in
Wartime, by Mary Payseur, published by OMS International, Box A, Greenwood, IN,
46142 The book is
copyrighted in 2002.
The writer
was interned in Weihsien, March 26, 1943, and repatriated on the Teia Maru and
the Gripsholm, leaving Weihsien on September 15, 1945.
She names other Oriental Missionary Society evacuees
on the Gripsholm as Harry
And Emily Woods, their 4 children, and Annie
Kartozian.
Greg:
I find no ISBN # in UNDER HIS WINGS.. It is published
by OMS International, Inc, P.O. Box A, Greenwood, IN 46142
The book says Kartosian and Woods were repatriated
from Weihsien. Many of you will remember the Helsbys who were Oriental
Missionary Society missionaries, held in Weihsien.
Mary Previte
I hope all of you Chefoo participants on our Weihsien
Topica bulletin board
have sent your news update for the 2003 edition of the
Chefoo School Magazine.
Editor Ian Grant says we're on deadline right now.
E-mail your news to
che-@rogers.com
Mary Previte
De: "Albert de Zutter"
<albertdezutter@worldnet.att.net>
À: "Leopold Pander"
<pander.nl@skynet.be>
Objet: Re: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: mardi 10 juin 2003 18:55
Leopold,
I would say
the "Market Wall" sketch is looking north from the southeast corner
of the compound. To the immediate left would be the tennis court and the
hospital. The building in the picture would be the morgue, and was also the
place where the trappist monk, Father Scanlan, was confined after he was caught
buying eggs in a "black market" operation. At the time of his
confinement there was a funeral for a priest who had died of cancer, and I was
assigned the task of sneaking down from the burial ground (the vantage point of
the artist) to the small building and passing a flask of water to Father
Scanlan. The feat was successfully accomplished.
Albert de
Zutter
----- Original Message -----
From: Leopold Pander
To: weihsien@topica.com
Cc: Janette & Pierre @ home
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:10 AM
Subject: Sketches
by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist (1878-1959)
Hello all,
After a recent "computer crash"
and after trying to get everything together again, here are a few sketches
Janette got from her acquaintance in
Holland.
Here are two of seventeen.
Who can locate the pictures on the map ?
Best regards,
Leopold
De: "leopold pander"
<pander.nl@skynet.be>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Fw: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: mardi 10 juin 2003 23:11
The
pictures I sent yesterday were returned "undeliverable" by the Weihsien@topica.com . I will send them by e-mail to
all --- hoping you all get them of course.
Let me
know!
Best
regards,
Leopold
De: "Dwight W. Whipple"
<thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: mercredi 11 juin 2003 0:00
I received
two pictures, Leopold. They are
superb! Thanks.
~Dwight W.
Whipple
De: "Donald Menzi"
<dmenzi@asan.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Fw: Sketches by
Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist (1878-1959)
Date: mercredi 11 juin 2003 0:09
The problem
with Topica is the maximum limit of 100kb for messages. Some
attachments get through, but usually not pictures because they are too
big.
I got the
picture of the priest sitting on his trunk.
It's wonderful. Thanks
De: "alison holmes"
<aholmes@prescott.edu>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: mercredi 11 juin 2003 0:12
I got the
pictures three times, Leopold! I was
very glad to have them...and look forward to the other fifteen....and to your
bi-yearly compressing of the all the Weihsien postings...if you are still up
for that. Not so many postings because
we either have said it all already or there aren't new people with new
thoughts...but there have still been some good things. I love these pictures...that brings it all
alive again. Thanks so much, Alison
Alison
Holmes
Liberal
Arts Coordinator
Adult
Degree Program
Prescott
College,
220
Grove Avenue
Prescott,
Az 86301
1
928 776 7116 X3202
De: "Leopold Pander"
<pander.nl@skynet.be>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Fw: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: jeudi 12 juin 2003 8:38
Hello,
--- and the
next ones are :
- Maingate,
-
Playground,
- Church,
inside,
- Playground
street,
- Church
yard,
- Market
Square and Sisters' quarters,
- Music
Hall and Kitchen n°3,
- Kitchen
n°1,
- Private
Kitchen,
- Lazarist
Quarter 3,
- Hospital,
Scheut Father's quarters,
- S.V.D.
Quarters,
- Sisters
Room.
--- and a
nice day to all,
Best
regards,
Leopold
----- Original Message -----
From: Leopold Pander
To: weihsien@topica.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 9:27
AM
Subject: Fw: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist (1878-1959)
Hello,
You must
have had the previous two three times. Sorry! My mistake!!
Here comes
the next two: "Black Market" and "Cemetery".
Any
comments?
--- and a
nice day to all ---
best
regards,
Leopold
PS, the
previous ones were: "An interned priest" and "The Black Market
Wall (east)"
De: "leopold pander"
<pander.nl@skynet.be>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Fw: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: mercredi 11 juin 2003 9:29
Hello,
You must
have had the previous two three times. Sorry! My mistake!!
Here comes
the next two: "Black Market" and "Cemetery".
Any
comments?
--- and a
nice day to all ---
best
regards,
Leopold
PS, the
previous ones were: "An interned priest" and "The Black Market
Wall (east)"
De: "leopold pander" <pander.nl@skynet.be >
À: <weihsien@topica.com >
Objet: Re: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: mercredi 11 juin 2003 9:56
Yes! With
pleasure. I will send the first six months of 2003 in July.
The problem
is, that with my recent computer problems, I'm not sure of who wanted the
"archives" !! and for which word processor it had to be.
best
regards, Leopold.
De: "alison holmes" <aholmes@prescott.edu>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: mercredi 11 juin 2003 16:54
Thank you
again for the pictures. The next two
have come through beautifully. I am not
very computer literate, but for me to receive things on my PC I am happiest
with Word. Does that answer your
question? I am sure every one (except
for those in the antipodes) are enjoying summer now, but I have to say that
this year up in the mountains of Arizona I have never seen the roses, the
lavender so beautiful. Mexican
primroses (pink) Indian blankets (deep red centres with yellow petals), bush
salvias in shocking pink and purple are hovered over by humming birds. Two families of quail each with 12-14 babies (which look like walnuts on
tiny wheels) putter and twitter around on sunny mornings and cool
evenings. I am so grateful for the
beauty that surrounds us..........and for good memories provided by this chat
room and the sure faith that with our cooperation the future has more to
offer. Thanks, Leopold
Alison Holmes
Liberal Arts Coordinator
Adult Degree Program
Prescott College,
220 Grove Avenue
Prescott, Az 86301
1 928 776 7116 X3202
De: "leopold pander"
<pander.nl@skynet.be>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Fw: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: jeudi 12 juin 2003 9:44
Hello,
--- and the
next ones are :
- Maingate,
-
Playground,
- Church,
inside,
-
Playground street,
- Church
yard,
- Market
Square and Sisters' quarters,
- Music
Hall and Kitchen n°3,
- Kitchen
n°1,
- Private
Kitchen,
- Lazarist
Quarter 3,
- Hospital,
Scheut Father's quarters,
- S.V.D.
Quarters,
- Sisters
Room.
--- and a
nice day to all,
Best
regards,
Leopold
De: "Donald & Kathleen
Rictor" <rictord@earthlink.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: jeudi 12 juin 2003 17:18
Thank you
so much for the 3 pictures. Did you
send the ones listed yet? if you
did...we have not received them yet.
Have a
great day ..... Kathleen
Rictor
Leopold,
thanks and a reply to your query about the market wall
Date: jeudi 12 juin 2003 17:51
Dear
Leopold,
The view of
the Main Gate from the main road in the camp gave me chills. It was like being
there all over again.
You asked
about the location of the market wall. That was, as you said, the east wall.
The perspective is from the graveyard. Directly to the left of the graveyard as
you look north along the market wall was the tennis court and just beyond that,
the hospital.
The little
building in the market wall picture is the morgue. It was also used to confine
Father Scanlan, the Trappist monk made famous for his "black market"
activities. He was caught and put in solitary confinement without food or water
in that building. It happened that a priest who had died of cancer was being
buried while Father Scanlan was interned, and Father Hanquet recruited me to
slip down from the funeral and pass a flask of water to Father Scanlan, as they
were not giving him food or water. He was later released.
Albert de Zutter
De: "Joyce Cook"
<bobjoyce@tpg.com.au>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: samedi 14 juin 2003 5:51
Thank you
Leopold for the marvellous drawings which bring back so many memories. Of
course I am printing out all of them and putting them into my scrap book. Thanks.
In Sydney Australia we are enjoying Winter very much as today was 21 Celsius
which is a few degrees higher than average for this time of year. Indian Summer
I guess but we love it. Joyce Bradbury.
De: "Dwight W. Whipple"
<thewhipples@attbi.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Sketches by Father Louis SCHMID, lazarist
(1878-1959)
Date: samedi 14 juin 2003 9:39
I, too,
am enjoying the pictures. And I have
forwarded them to my siblings and cousins.
How many more?
~Dwight
Whipple
De: "leopold pander"
<pander.nl@skynet.be>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Church, inside ---
Date: samedi 14 juin 2003 10:29
Hello
everyboby,
Church,
inside :
This sketch
from Father Schmid makes something nice come back to my mind. A story our
Mother often told us about ---
It must
have been in the afternoon of December 24th 1944, after more than a year
imprisonment in Weihsien camp that her husband suggested that it would be a
good idea to go to the Christmas eve celebration, that very night.
She would
have gone anyway, but she went. The church was crowded --- certainly as crowded
as shown on Father Schmid's sketch --- and the X'mas ceremony began, --- and,
--- all of a sudden, a voice from somewhere, started singing the "Ave
Maria" in solo. All were listening --- and our Mom recognised our Dad's
voice. She had tears in her eyes and was very proud of her husband.
Our Dad,
when he was much younger (he was 47 at the time), loved the opera and went to
listen whenever he could. Especially when he was in Paris, or London. When he
came to China and when he could afford it, singing became a hobby (a passion)
and he took singing lessons. He did so well that, one day, his teacher asked
him to sing in public for a recital he was organising for a few friends. Our
Dad refused. He said that a bank manager could not afford to make a fool of
himself in public.
The story
doesn't say who lost face but that was the end of the singing lessons.
So, you
see, hearing to my Dad's voice, singing the "Ave Maria" that December
25th 1944 was a unique privilege you had.
Does
someone remember that?
My Dad is
long time gone now and I would like to tell you that I never, never heard him
sing. Not even once.
Leopold.
De: "John de Zutter"
<jjdz@optonline.net>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: RE: Church, inside ---
Date: dimanche 15 juin 2003 16:31
Leopold
What a
marvellous story!!!
Thank you so much for the pictures
by Fr. Schmid. I enjoyed them
very much.
I do not remember hearing your father sing...but if it was a Catholic
mass I probably was one of the altar boys. I served on most of the holidays.
Do you remember that at the beginning, before they were sent to another
location, we had 5 bishops in the camp?
Best regards,
John de Zutter
De: "leopold pander" <pander.nl@skynet.be>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Church, inside ---
Date: dimanche 15 juin 2003 18:38
Dear John,
I'm more or less certain that it was
Father de Jaegher who convinced my Dad to sing!
They were
great friends in camp, always complotting and exchanging information --- and
even afterwards --- when we returned to the civilised life.
I remember
my Dad, being very affected when Father de Jaegher died!
Best to
all,
Leopold.
De: "leopold pander"
<pander.nl@skynet.be>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Cc: "Janette & Pierre @ home"
<pierre.ley@pandora.be>
Objet: S.V.D.
Date: vendredi 20 juin 2003 18:42
Hello
everyone,
Natasha
asked, and I didn't know so I asked Father Hanquet and he knew.
Well,
S.V.D., as mentioned under one of the sketches drawn by Father Schmid stands
for: "Société du Verbe Divin" !
(???)
Which
means: "Divine World Missionnaries"
So, I
searched the www, and found this:
The
Society of the Divine Word (SVD) is an international religious community of
Catholic missionary priests and brothers, founded in 1875 by Blessed Arnold
Janssen. Members work primarily where the Gospel has not yet been preached at
all or only insufficiently.
Internationality
has characterized the SVD from its very beginning. The society's 5,800 members
live and work in more than 60 countries around the world. The work which our
missionaries do very much depends on the needs of the local church. We work in
primary evangelisation, education, development work, scientific research,
communications, biblical apostolate, and with youth, with refugees, with
minority groups etc.
The
Society's members work in Europe, North, Central and South Americas, in the
Caribbean, in Asia, Oceania and in Africa.
The SVDs
- about 450 of them - work in 11 countries in Africa. You will find them in
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Dem. Rep. of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar,
Mozambique, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
--- As to the second question, the answer is
yes. The "Playground" sketch was also the baseball field.
Best
regards,
Leopold
-
De: "Ron Bridge"
<rwbridge@freeuk.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: S.V.D.
Date: mercredi 25 juin 2003 12:16
Just on a
matter of accuracy it was not a "Baseball Field" as it was not big
enough just a softball field with 30yds between bases and when used to play
football (soccer) the markings were non standard as it could only be about 80%
of the size of a full field.
Rgds
Ron
De: "leopold pander"
<pander.nl@skynet.be>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: from Father Hanquet,
Date: samedi 28 juin 2003 18:08
>From
Father Hanquet;
About the bishops in Weihsien prison camp, I remember three:
Mgr. Leo
De Smedt (62 years old), Mgr. Louis Morel (64 years old) and Bishop Scott who
was an Anglican Bishop.
The two
first ones were transferred to Peking in June 1943 as well as nearly all the
other priests and the nuns that were in camp.
Only a
dozen stayed behind, and those were:
-- 6
Samists: Raymond de Jaegher, Emmanuel Hanquet, Michel Keymolen, Albert Palmers,
Herman Unden and Nicolas Wenders.
-- 2
Jesuites: Fathers Dallaire and Ghyselinck,
-- 1
Benedictin: John Martin,
-- 2
Franciscans: Fathers P. Rutherford and Schneider ---
who
stayed in camp to the end: October
1945.
The third
Anglican Bishop stayed with us -- I think - until the end or maybe was he
repatriated on board of the Gripsholm - I'm not quite certain of that.
Father
Hanquet.
De: "Ron Bridge"
<rwbridge@freeuk.com>
À: <weihsien@topica.com>
Objet: Re: Bishops in Weihsien
Date: samedi 28 juin 2003 21:39
re
Leopold Pander's report on Mgr Hanquets ,
According
to the various Camp Lists the following senior clergy were in Weihsien:
RC
Bishops all transferred to Peking on or about 16 Aug43
Francis
JOOSTEN Dutch CICM from Datung
Thoams
MEGAN SVD Sinsiang
Louis
MOREL Belgian Scheut
Fathers Pameng
P
PINGER American Chowtsun
Leo de
SMEDT Belgian Chagar
Abbot
PESSERS Franciscan Shansi transf'd Peking 16Aug43
Anglican
Bishop of North China from Peking
Thomas A
Scott
Rgds
Ron
PS For
the record at this stage I have 2004 names that were in Weihsien at some time
or other.( Includes the Italians although I know that I still missing about 80
priests and nuns and probably 40 that were evacuated on the Gripsholm[at this stage I have not
traced the Camp of some of the Gripsholm names])
***