Preface - Introduction - The 1920s, People and Weather - The 1930s, Schools, Visitors, and Visits - Advent of Japanese, 1938-1941 - Japanese Occupation and Internment, 1941-1942 - In and Out of the Camp, Releases, and Repatriation, 1941-1942 - Postwar Years, the 1950s, the Early 1960s, and Refugees - Resettlement Areas in the 1950s and the 1960s - Conclusion

Vol. 1 Includes list of missionary sisters who worked in Hong Kong, Chinese tertiaries, and non-Chinese sisters, with dates of entry. Vol. 2 covers 84 years from 1868 in Hankou until 1952.

"The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: In Love with the Chinese describes the adaptation of American women to cross-cultural situations in Hong Kong from 1921 to 1969. The Maryknoll Sisters were the first American Catholic community of women founded for overseas missionary work, and were the first American Sisters in Hong Kong. Maryknollers were independent, outgoing, and joyful women who were highly educated, and acted in professional capacities as teachers, social workers, and medical personnel. The assertion of this book is that the mission provided Maryknollers what they had long desired--equal employment opportunities--which were only later emphasized in the women's liberation movement of the 1960s."