Group Title : Meeting Papers and Reports

Series Title : General Reports - Canton Villages Mission and South China Mission

Date(s) : 1935 to 1948

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Item Description : This file contains typed annual general reports for the Canton Villages/South China Mission.

Main Topics Include : Political situation; Japanese aggression (1936); evangelistic work; medical work; educational work; union work; mission relationship with the Kwantung Synod of the Church of Christ in China; Union Theological College Canton; the Nanking Government and the New Life Movement (1937); abolition of gambling (1937); staffing; language study; aerial bombing of Canton by Japanese (1938); effect of war on Chinese workers and evangelistic work (1938); work among women; public health work (1938); hospital evangelism; property; reaction of Chinese Christians to Japanese crisis (1938); Japanese occupation of Canton and Kwantung province (1939); comparisons of (Japanese) "occupied" China and "free" China (1940); effect of Japanese occupation on Christian work (1940); Shung Kei Training School; Union Normal School Sai Chuen, Canton; Christian sponsored war relief (1940); Kai Hau Medical Field Work in the Ts'ung Fa Region; medical work at Kong Chuen during World War Two (1941-1945); locations of NZ missionaries in China during World War Two (1945); Kwantung Synod work during World War Two (1945); Kukong (Shuichow) in Free China (1945); loss of church building due to enemy action (1945); critical need for rehabilation of Christian work and buildings in Kwanturn (1945); mission school and medical work during World War Two (1945); post war rehabilation and reconstruction (1947); necessity of re-registering foreign and msision owned property as lease in perpetuity (1947); the work of the National Christian Council in China (1948); Communist take-over of Nationalist areas north of the Yangtse River (1948).
 

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