Contents: 1. Land of bondage / Edward MacElroy -- 2. Village people / Luke M. O'Reilly -- 3. Four felons / John Casey, Patrick Ronan, Owen O'Kane, Patrick Reilly.

Part one : The drought creeps up. Thou, Lord broughtest us into the net -- When heat cometh : the Mongol Gospel Inn -- The kingfisher contends for the prey -- Faith goes into the pressure chamber -- Thou'rt God when I can't understand -- The bamboo curtain versus the feather curtain of God -- The monthly belly-crawl -- Part two : The bursting of the green. The best wine now -- Though the mountains shake there is a river -- God takes over Mother Hubbard's cupboard -- Specious promises of release -- Not a hoof nor a husband -- Conclusion.

The print collection consists of 47 biographies (not quite complete set), spiral bound, and is arranged alphabetically by surname of individual. A complete set is available online (see note & link below)

"The Midwest China Oral History, Archives and Museum Collection was made possible through the generous support of the Jerome Foundation, Inc., the Minnesota Historical Society, Lutheran Brotherhood, 3M, the American Lutheran Church, The Lutheran Church in America, and the Fjord Foundation."

These print issues are the gift of Douglas & Jane Koons to the Ricci Institute archives.

Individual biographies available online at Luther Seminary Digital Commons

Song Liming 宋黎明 : Two Daoists who encountered Matteo Ricci in Nanjing: Xingshenzi 醒神子 and Li Chedu 李徹度. -- Gail King 歐凱尼 : The Lou-District Chinese Christian Orphanage, 1674-ca. 1850. -- Wu Huiyi 吳蕙儀 : Fr. Dentrecolles’s letters and the circulation of smallpox inoculation in the early 18th century as a Sino-Ottoman-European story. -- Arne Benjamin Slovik 魏德光 (1918-2014): Memoirs.

Reviews: Anthony E. Clark, Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi (2015) / R.G. Tiedemann. -- Shu-Jyuan Deiwiks, et al. Europe meets China-China meets Europe: the beginnings of European-Chinese scientific exchange in the 17th century (2014) / D.E. Mungello. -- Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: a short history of racial thinking and race and racism in modern East Asia (2011) . Rotem Kowner & Walter Demel, Race and racism in modern East Asia: Western and Eastern constructions (2012) / Laura Hostetler 何羅娜. -- Rotem Kowner, From White to Yellow: the Japanese in European racial thought, 1300-1735 / D.E. Mungello. -- Michelle T. King, Between birth and death: female infanticide in nineteenth-century China (2014) / Jocelyn M.N. Marinescu 倪卓熙. -- Liam Matthew Brockey, The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia (2014) / Dominic Sachsenmaier.

This was China / compiled by Fr. Adrian Erlenheim, O.F.M.
" ... a compilation of sources, including letters, documents, diaries, House Chronicles, personal experiences, conversations, etc. .... the story of each Mission Station where a Missionary was Resident ... from the years 1934 through 1948."--Forward.
Keywords: Franciscan Friars of the United States (Santa Barbara Province, California) ; Dongchangfu/Tungchangfu ; Yu Huang Miao ; Suchow Vicariate ; Yaowan, Yentou/Yantou, Pihsien/Bixian, Tushan/Dushan ; Suining, Sutsien/Sujian; Fr. Brice, Beijing ; World War II Internment.

Preface; Introduction; The Letters from Hangzhou: September 1937 to August 1938; Epilogue; Glossary of Chinese Terms; Glossary of Western Names; Bibliography; Index; About the Editors; About the Cover Image.

"A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in 1937-1938, these letters by an American missionary in Hangzhou provide a vividly detailed, first-hand account of the spread of war from Shanghai across the Yangzi valley and the subsequent ordeals of military occupation seen against the better-known backdrop of the Nanjing Massacre - one man's embedded experience in one major Chinese city of one chaotic year of war. Already 25 years in Republican China and fluent in the language when the Japanese arrived, the author was well-placed as both an observer of, and participant in harrowing events - the provost of the Hangzhou Christian College and responsible for its campus, president of the local Red Cross which organized refugee camps and shelter for those displaced by the looting and raping that ensued, and chairman of an International Committee which sought to mediate between Japanese and Chinese forces in an effort to limit destruction and then to negotiate with the occupation regime on a day-to-day basis. The letters - written twice weekly - describe pitched battles and aerial bombing, the fearful conditions of civilian refugees, the exigencies of the missionary enterprise and the experiences of foreign neutrals in wartime China, as well as the practical dilemmas of collaboration that arose under occupation - moving about, protecting refugees, procuring food, tending a dairy herd, and ministering to embattled congregations.The letters are fully annotated to give readers a fuller perspective on places, people, and events that surround the eyewitness accounts. A substantially researched introductory essay provides necessary historical background and situates the author in a longer missionary career that began in 1911 and ended with wartime internment in 1943."-- Provided by publisher.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 31, 2017)