TWO LIVES ENTWINED

Poor health in infancy and childhood left me a class behind my age group when I began my formal education in 1932 at McTyeire’s Number Two Primary School, founded by American Southern Methodist missionaries. Although it was a private school for the daughters of Shanghai’s elite and was located near...

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Published inIn the Eye of the China Storm pp. 38 - 47
Main Author Shu Lin, Eileen Chen
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Montreal MQUP 04.08.2011
McGill-Queen's University Press
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Armed conflict
Behavioral sciences
Bible
Ceremonies
Cultural anthropology
Cultural customs
Daughters
Education
Families
Family members
Formal education
Human populations
Human societies
Marriage ceremonies
Military science
Mothers
Parents
Persons
Political science
Population studies
Practical theology
Religion
Rituals
Sacred texts
Social institutions
Social sciences
Sociology
Theology
War
Weddings
Women
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Summary:Poor health in infancy and childhood left me a class behind my age group when I began my formal education in 1932 at McTyeire’s Number Two Primary School, founded by American Southern Methodist missionaries. Although it was a private school for the daughters of Shanghai’s elite and was located near our home in the French Concession, my sixth-grade teacher, Miss Yang Guangmin, was a passionate patriot. She gave her students a solid grounding in recent Chinese history, teaching us about the suffering and humiliation imposed on the Chinese people by foreign predators for more than a century. She instilled in
ISBN:9780773538573
0773538577
DOI:10.1515/9780773585874-007