Speaker: Sonya Grypma, PhD, RN
Associate Professor, Trinity Western University, BC, Canada
Time: 12:15PM
Place: Room 2019, 2U
School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Title: Against Consular Advice: The Internment of Canadian Missionary Nurses who Refused to Evacuate Japanese-Occupied China, 1941
Abstract: Unlike military nurses who became Japanese prisoners of war between 1941 and 1945, the five Canadian missionary nurses who were among the 14,400 allied civilians interned in China during the same period were given ample warning to evacuate the region. Three of these five were adult children of United Church of Canada missionaries (“mishkids”) who were reared together in northern China. This presentation explores the relationship between identity and internment – specifically, how these nurses’ identity as China-born mishkids influenced their decision to stay in China in 1941 despite their knowledge that internment was imminent
The Bates Center Seminar Series features scholarly papers and presentations on the history of nursing and health care and welcomes all interested individuals.
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