Healing, Romance & Revolution: Letters from an American Nurse in 1926 China
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (715 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1937454207 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 197 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Michael Barrett said Enlightening Journey. Reminiscent of Rose Macaulay and Isabella L. Bird, the extraordinary 19th- and early "Enlightening Journey" according to Michael Barrett. Reminiscent of Rose Macaulay and Isabella L. Bird, the extraordinary 19th- and early 20th-century women who wrote abundantly about their exciting adventures in forbidding, faraway places, we now have Harriet Holbrook Smith, an American nurse who spent a few of her formidable years in China as it prepared for civil war. Smith was a prolific letter writer who sized up the world and people around her like a world-class journalist as she prospered as teacher and mentor to young nursing students in Changsha, . 0th-century women who wrote abundantly about their exciting adventures in forbidding, faraway places, we now have Harriet Holbrook Smith, an American nurse who spent a few of her formidable years in China as it prepared for civil war. Smith was a prolific letter writer who sized up the world and people around her like a world-class journalist as she prospered as teacher and mentor to young nursing students in Changsha, . Only enjoyable to people who live in Changsha Amanda Roberts I don't use Twitter very much, but when I do I am sure to look for any posts related to "Changsha." That is how I found the book Healing, Romance, and Revolution: Letters from an American Nurse in 1926 China. Harriet Smith was a nurse in Changsha, Hunan, China for several years. This book only covers one year when she actively wrote to her mother and best friend regularly.Since I live in Changsha, I found the book to be very interesting. It is still common for my husband and I to be stopped and asked for. Anyone would love to receive a letter from Hat! I would have liked to have seen an Introduction, which would provide some concise Chinese history for context, as well as more biographical information on Harriet's life, before and after her trips to China. However"Healing, Romance & Revolution" is a delightful collection of letters, written by Seattleite Harriet "Hat" Smith. They were sent to her mother and others during her adventures as a young, single, and very independent nurse in China in the 1920's. This was Hat's second long-term stay in Changsh
Upon returning she finds: A country in disarray with social and civic unrest, chaotic politics, militarism and war. -- Herself questioning her life and future. HARRIET W. SMITH, idealistic nurse, returns to China and Yale in China's schools of medicine and nursing and its hospital to continue working with her beloved Chinese students, patients, and her colleagues, and to pursue her humanitarian causes. -- Her school and hospital assaulted by revolutionary unions and radical students, and financially stressed with struggling leadership. Notice the parallels of 1926 China and today's tumultuous times.. Discover, enjoy, marvel at, wonder and laugh in reading howHarriet faces all of these challenges and imagine how they will be seminal to the rest of her accomplished life
From the Back CoverLost letters reveal a young woman's fascinating life during revolutionary 1926 China HARRIET H. SMITH, idealistic young nurse returns to China and the Yale in China school of nursing and its hospital to continue working with her beloved Chinese students, patients, her cherished colleagues and to pursue her humanitarian causes. Upon returning she finds: · A country in disarray with social and civic unrest, chaotic politics, milita
The result is a valuable book both for history lovers and casual readers who just want to enjoy the unique day-to-day experiences of a young American nurse years ahead of her time, and see how her experiences parallel today's world in turmoil. Healing, Romance & Revolution is a labor of love by Carolyn (Harriet's great-neice) and her husband, Dennis, devoting months to sorting dozens of photographs, deciphering handwriting, scanning and transferring hundreds of pages