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Bethune, Endicott and West China Union University collection [textual record (some microform), graphic material]

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Collection

Date :

1926-1984.

Référence :

R2400-0-7-E, MG30-C230

Genre de documents :

Documents textuels, Documents photographiques

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Archives / Collections et fonds

No d'identification :

102759

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Collection comprend :

152 description(s) de niveau inférieur
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Date(s) :

1926-1984.

Lieu de création :

Chine

Étendue :

1 microfilm reel negative and positive.
8 cm of textual records.
6 photographs b&w.

Langue du document :

anglais

Langue du document additionnelle :

anglais, chinois

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Collection consists of microfilm and photocopies of files concerning Dr. Norman Bethune, James Endicott, and the West China Union University, obtained from the First Historical Archives of China in Bejing. The information available on microfilm, microfilm reel K-180, is duplicated in the photocopies.

The Bethune files consist of a number of testimonials to the memory of Dr. Bethune following his death, and several articles written by him on medicine and the Chinese revolution. All files are in the Chinese language. The Endicott files consist of copies of articles taken from the Chinese press (most are out of Heavenly Wind). They deal with Endicott's support of the Chinese revolutionaries and his international peace activity. The West China Union University files are copies of correspondence exchanged between the Board of Foreign/Overseas Missions of the United Church of Canada and the administration of the West China Union University in Chengtu, Szechuan, funded and administered by the Board of Foreign Missions.

The West China Union University files correspondence is mostly between A.W. Lindsay, Vice-Chancellor of the University, and J.H. Arnup who headed the Board of Foreign Missions. L.G. Kilborn (Director of the University), S.H. Fong (University President), and J.D. Robertson (also Vice-Chancellor) are also correspondents. Much of the correspondence concerns Endicott and his activities. The West China Union University correspondence reflects the following concerns: administrative, pedagogical and financial difficulties of the university during China's difficult era of civil war, foreign occupation and revolution; the political situation in China in all its complexity; and J. Endicott's growing disenchantment with the Nationalist movement. The correspondence is all in English.

Collection consists of copies of photographs, ca. 1938, depict Dr. Norman Bethune at his clinic in China, and with comrades.

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Bethune, Norman, 1890-1939
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Endicott, James G. (James Gareth), 1898-1993

West China Union University
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Bethune, Norman, 1890-1939 : Norman Bethune, the son of a clergyman, was born in Gravenhurst and educated at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine. During World War I he enlisted with the first contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and, after being wounded, served as a lieutenant-surgeon in the Navy.

After the Armistice, Bethune practised medicine in England and Canada, and in Detroit where he learned that he had tuberculosis, spending the next year in sanitoriums and recovering in 1927. He later joined Dr. Edward Archibald, the tuberculosis specialist, at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, where he helped organize the Montreal Group for the Security of the People's Health, an organization devoted to establishing socialized medicine. During the Civil War Bethune set up a blood transfusion service in Spain and in 1938 he went to China to attend to the wounded during the Sino-Japanese War. He died there the following year.

Bethune's fame resulted from his status as a hero in the People's Republic of China and the impact of this on Sino-Canadian relations.

Endicott, James G. (James Gareth), 1898-1993 : James Gareth Endicott was born in 1898, in Szechuan Province, China, the son of missionary parents. James and his family returned to Canada in 1910 and saw service with the Canadian Artillery in World War I. Following the war he attended Victoria College, University of Toronto, from which he graduated in 1925 as an ordained minister of the Methodist (soon to be the United) Church.

In 1925 James married Mary Austin of Chatham, Ontario, and together they moved to Chungking in Szechuan, where Endicott took up a posting as a missionary with the West China Mission of the United Church. There he became unusually fluent in the Szechuan dialect and something of an authority on the teaching of English as a second language. James' speaking ability and progressive political interests also combined to make him an increasingly public figure, a trend which culminated in his being loaned by the Church to the New Life Movement of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. In 1941 James returned to Canada on furlough, where, despite growing misgivings about the reactionary nature of the Chinese Nationalist government, he lectured widely on behalf of its war effort. He returned to China in 1944.

James Endicott's progressive political activities were increasingly at odds with the non-involvement of the rest of the Christian Church, and he resigned from the West China Mission in May of 1946. In 1947 he returned to Canada to prosyletize for the Chinese Revolution. This activity led naturally to a consideration of the larger questions of international relations during the Cold War, a concern reflected in the organization of the Canadian Peace Congress in 1948. James Endicott was chair of that body from its founding until 1972, and also occupied prominent positions in the World Council of Peace for many years. James Endicott's Chinese name was Wen Yiuzhang. He died on 27 November 1993 in Toronto.

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Textual records (Électronique) The finding aid is a file list of the photocopies in vol. 1. MSS1642 (90: Ouvert)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003557.pdf

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Note sur l'emplacement des originaux :

The originals are held by the First Historical Archives of China, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
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Revolutions - China, [19-] Norman Bethune, n.d., 1938-1979

China - Politics and government, [1926-1983] James G. Endicott, n.d., 1936-1984

United Church of Canada. Board of Foreign/Overseas Missions - Records and correspondence, [1926-1983] Heavenly Wind (Chinese), 1945-1952

West China Union University (Chengtu, Szechuan) - Records and correspondence, [1926-1983] A.W. Lindsay, [1926-1984]

Universities and colleges - China - Finance. [1926-1983] J.H. Arnup, [1926-1984]

West China Union University (Chengtu, Szechuan) - Administration, [1926-1983] L.G. Kilborn, [1926-1984]

China - History - Civil War, 1945-1949 S.H. Fong, [1926-1984]

China - Foreign relations, [19-] J.D. Robertson, [1926-1984]

Revolutionaries - China, [19-]

Peaceful change (International relations), [1926-1939]

Nationalism - China, [1926-1939]

Medicine
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Privé

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1986-074 NPC

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MG30-C230
Pour réserver ou commander des documents

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Documents textuels: microformes

[Consultation96 Restrictions varient]

Bobine de microfilm [MG30 C 230] K-180

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

Documents textuels

[Consultation90 Ouvert]

Volume [MG30 C 230] 1

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

Boîte d'instruments de recherche [FA 1642] 126

[Consultation 10 Fermé]

Documents iconographiques (photo)

[Consultation90 Ouvert]

Boîte [BETHUNE, NORMAN 1986-074] 5220

[Consultation 90 Ouvert]

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Photographs: Copyright expired. Credit: Name of Photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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