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Missionaries Arthur Matthews (an American) and Dr. Rupert Clark (British) were placed under house arrest but were finally allowed to leave in 1953. Their wives, Wilda Matthews and Jeannette Clark, had been forced to leave with other missionaries before this. The China Inland Mission was the last Protestant missionary society to leave China.
Robert Arthur Mathews (4 February 1912 - 29 July 1978) [1] was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the China Inland Mission (CIM) in China.He and fellow CIM missionary, Dr. Rupert Clark, were the last foreign missionaries to leave China in 1953 following the takeover of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949.
Operation Beleaguer [4] was the codename for the United States Marine Corps' occupation of northeastern China's Hebei and Shandong provinces from 1945 until 1949. The Marines were tasked with overseeing the repatriation of more than 600,000 Japanese and Koreans that remained in China at the end of World War II.
1913 – C.T. Studd establishes Heart of Africa Mission, now called WEC International; [339] African-American Eliza Davis George sails from New York for Liberia; [340] William Whiting Borden dies in Egypt while preparing to take the gospel to the Muslims in China [341] 1914-1918 World War I numerous missionaries in Africa and Asia in British ...
This is a list of known World War II era codenames for military operations and missions commonly associated with World War II. As of 2022 this is not a comprehensive list, but most major operations that Axis and Allied combatants engaged in are included, and also operations that involved neutral nation states.
[48]: 48 Japan stated that it was aware of its responsibility for causing enormous damage to the Chinese people during World War II and China renounced its demand for war reparation from Japan. [48]: 48 Avoiding political disputes over this traumatic history facilitated immediate strategic cooperation.
Overall, in the countries occupied by Japan during World War II, approximately 125,000 enemy nationals were interned. Of those 125,000, ten percent were in China and Hong Kong. In China, Weihsien was one of the largest internment camps, called "Civilian Assembly Centers" by the Japanese. [8]
The Friends' Ambulance Unit sent a team of 40 volunteers to provide medical assistance in China in mid 1941 during the Second World War, known as the China Convoy, which operated across the Provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and beyond, until their responsibility for the relief work there was passed to the American Friends Service Committee ...