Main description:

In 1943, the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) was forced to evacuate to the Canadian West China Mission in Chengdu, Sichuan. As part of an extraordinary mass migration to Free China during the Japanese occupation, the refugee PUMC transformed nursing at the Canadian mission, initiating the second university nursing program in the country. Both programs were closed by the new Communist government in 1951, and degree programs lay dormant in China for the next thirty-five years. Nursing Shifts in Sichuan offers both a cautionary tale about the fragility of transnational relations and a testament to the resilience of educated women.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1: Before the PUMC Closure

1 China Calling (1914-1933)

2 Unsettling Nursing (1932-1940)

3 Shifting Missions (1936-1940)

4 The Bomb that Changed Everything (1940-1942)

Part 2: After the PUMC Closure

5 Starting over in West China (1943-1945)

6 Fighting the Foundation's "Darling Child" (1943-1946)

7 "Our Triumphant Return" (1946-1949)

8 The Last Chapter (1949-1951)

Conclusion

Appendix 1 List of Nurses at the West China Mission

Appendix 2 PUMC Nursing Faculty to 1949

Appendix 3 List of All Interned Nurses in China

Appendix 4 PUMC Nursing Graduates to 1939

Notes; References; Index