McClure The China Years

Toronto: Canec Publishing and Supply House BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A biography by Munroe Scott. SUB-TITLE: of Dr. Bob McClure; A Biography. BOOK DESIGN BY: Bryan Mills & Associates. CONTENTS: Foreword; Prologue 1 First Decade 2 American Interlude 3 Return to China 4 Life with Father 5 The Higher Education of Bob McClure 6 The Intern 7 Loa Ming-yuan 8 Weihwei 9 Hwaiking and the Path to Chinghua 10 News from Home 11 Religious Background 12 The Tent 13 Loa Ming-yuan and the Warlord of Hwaiking 14 Moment of Truth 15 Wedding Bells 16 Exodus 17 Taiwan the Beautiful 18 Assault on Edinburgh 19 Return to Hwaiking 20 Loving Lotus and Others 21 The Hwaiking Rural Medical System 22 Quicksand 23 Times of a Red Cross Man 24 Number One Hankow Lady 25 On Tour 26 The Burma Road With a Bishop 27 Trucking Along 28 Oh Canada! 29 The China Convoy 30 Precious Mountain 31 Raid on Chengchow 32 General Ming-yuan McCurdle 33 The Return of Hankey 34 The City of Jade and (a=r+p) 35 Plague Valley 36 General McCurdle and the Relief of Honan 37 Requiem for Hwaiking 38 The Last China Year of Bob McClure; McClure-China Chronological Table. SYNOPSIS: There have been few periods of human history as significant or as dramatic as was the first half of the twentieth century in China. From the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 through to the final Communist victories in 1949, China was in the midst of social upheaval, revolution, and war. That half-century of change parallels the early career of Bob McClure, The United Church of Canada's extraordinary missionary surgeon who was born just after his parents escaped from the Boxer Rebellion and who was raised in China, educated in Canada and abroad, and returned to spend the first twenty-five years of his medical life in China. McClure: The China Years not only follows the adventures of a unique man but traces them against the fascinating and often awesome background of a changing China. During McClure's childhood the Manchu emperors are still in power. During his teens the First Republic is struggling for survival. It is the Age of the Warlords as McClure begins his service as a doctor. While he is pioneering with X-ray, radium, family planning, and rural medicine, China moves into the Sino-Japanese War and McClure becomes Field Director for The International Red Cross in North and Central China before going to the Burma Road to take command of a Quaker ambulance unit staffed by pacifists. While McClure is following the dictates of his conscience Chinese Nationalist soldiers attempt to execute him, the Japanese put a price on his had, the Chinese Communists black-list him, and Canada's Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, threatens to throw him in gaol. Bob McClure is a unique blend of missionary, surgeon, mechanic, and adventurer. In reflecting the man, McClure offers an unusual blend of drama, humour, and adventure combined with an intimate view of history-in-the-making. Munroe Scott was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, in 1927. He was raised in Ontario and educated at Queen's University (B.A.) and at Cornell University (M.A.). He has been a freelance writer and director in film and television for many years. He was writer/director for three outstanding CBC-TV series--One Canadian (The Diefenbaker memoirs), First Person Singular (The Pearson memoirs), and The Tenth Decade (The Diefenbaker-Pearson years). He has written many plays for TV, his most ambitious being Reddick, a three-hour drama in two parts. He has been Writer in Residence at the University of Guelph, has won the ACTRA Award for the Best Writer in the Dramatic Mode in Radio and has had a full length play, Wu-feng, produced by Toronto's prestigious St. Lawrence Centre. As a freelance filmwriter Mr. Scott has written many filmscripts for Berkeley Studio, the film production unit of The United church of Canada. Research for those documentary films has taken him to mission fields in the Caribbean, Africa, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Okinawa, Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia. Many readers will remember his first book, African Manhunt, which was written as a result of a film assignment in Angola. Now, having recently completed the TV biographies of two fascinating Canadian Prime Ministers, Mr. Scott brings his talents to bear upon a biography of a third great Canadian, Dr. Bob McClure.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.