num_pages: 162
description: The tumultuous China of Mao, Chou, and Bethune surges back to life through the eyes of a young Canadian nurse who was caught up in the maelstrom on the Chinese Revolution.Harrowing and enthralling, this is the true story of Jean Ewen who was selected to accompany Dr. Norman Bethune to China as a medical assistant and who inadvertently became a witness to history.Sketching her upbringing in Canada and previous medical missionary activities in the "old China," the author devotes the major portion of this forthright autobiography to recapturing the perilous adventure and political intrigue which characterized the two momentous years of 1938 and 1939.Here is life in the Communist caves of the interior, wartime close-ups of Mao Tse-tung and his Eighth Route Army, and of Dr. Norman Bethune whose status as a national hero in Red China did not alter Ewen's opinion that he was politically naive.This unique book represents both the stirring and invaluable documentation of a key event in world history, and the compelling story of one woman's resourceful courage in the face of danger and hardship.
language: English
title: China Nurse 1932-1939: A Young Canadian Witnesses History
titlecomplete: China Nurse 1932-1939: A Young Canadian Witnesses History
genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 8
publisher: McClelland & Stewart