China Mission: A Personal History from the Last Imperial Dynasty to the People's Republic

Index

INDEX Afang Palace, 4 Agence France-Presse, 321–22 Alberta, Canada: Audrey Ronning and Seymour Topping in, xxi; Camrose Lutheran College in, 279; city of Bardo in, xx, 146, 170, 218; city of Camrose in, xx, 8; legislature of, 28, 296; map of, 216; Peace River District in, xiii, xx, 222; Provincial Order of Excellence of, 347; Ronning family in, xvii, 251, 294–96; United Farmers of, 282 Alberta College, 241 Amoy (Xiamen), 112 An K’ang Air Base, 291–92 Anam, 186 Antiforeignism, xii, 51 AP. See Associated Press (AP) Armed Forces Radio Station, 311–12, 318 Asian sprue, 205 Associated Press (AP), 320–22, 342 Athabasca Ice Trail, Alberta, xx, 224, 236 Athabasca Landing, Alberta, 224–25 Athabasca River, Alberta, 230–31 Badaling Pass, 346 Bagnall, Benjamin, 161 Bai Chongxi, 281 Bardo, Alberta, city of, x, xi, 146, 69, 210, 218–19, 221–22, 224–25, 228 Barr, General David, 319 Bates, Dr. M. Searle, 314 Belgians, 157, 159, 171 Bible Woman, concept of, 21–22, 195 Big Smoky River, Alberta, 225, 233 Bo Valley, Norway, 136, 137, 138, 241 Boer War, 222 Bolshevik Revolution, 251, 254, 328 Book of Rites (Li Ji), 43, 45 Borodin, Michael, 268, 278 Boxer Protocol, 170 Boxer Uprising, xvi, xvii, ix, 12, 103–4, 153, 170, 174–77, 191, 196, 212, 255, 276, 303 Boxers: antiforeign ideology and violence of, xi, 104–6, 108, 110–11, 115, 124–26; assault on Peking, 157–60, 162; attack on missionaries and Chinese converts, 116, 124, 129, 153–54, 156, 160–61, 163, 171, 255, 303; dress of, 126, 276; empress dowager and, xiii, 104, 108, 111, 115, 155–56, 158, 166, 170, 173, 255; foreign community dismissal of, 117; killing by foreigners of, 157, 164, 170; origin of name, 101; Ronnings escape from, xii, 106–7, 126–28, 164, 255, 276; secret societies and, 12, 103, 108, 275; Shandong governor and, 154, 164, 166; superstitions of, 104–5, 157 Brantzaeg, Johannes, 12–13, 51 Breton, Paul Henry, 160, 165 British Columbia, 237, 240, 242, 295; university in, 319 British East India Company, 156 Brooks, S. M., 154, 162 Buddhism, xiv, xvi, xvii, 24, 57, 66, 93, 97, 98, 102, 108, 111, 213, 233; Old Silk Road and, 199–201, 208, 346 Burma Road, 289, 292, 299 Calcutta, 156, 298 Campbell, C. W., 154 Camrose, Alberta. See Alberta, Canada Camrose Lutheran College, xx, 221, 228, 279, 282, 293, 308 Canada, xiii, xv, xx; Americans in, 320; Audrey Ronning and Seymour Topping in, 319, 323; relations with China, 304, 317, 324, 354
index 330, 347; Ronnings’ move to and residence in, 46, 169–70, 210, 218–19, 224, 242, 249, 251, 268, 273, 275, 279–80, 297, 339–40, 348; war with Japan, 287. See also National Film Board of Canada; Order of Canada Canadian Air Force. See Royal Canadian Air Force Canadian Pacific Railroad, 169 Cantlie, Dr. James, 85 Canton (Guangzhou), 27, 111–12, 304–5, 331, 334; British shelling and attack on, 113; smuggling in, 113; Sun Yat-sen and Kuomintang in, 183, 185, 268, 270, 278 Castiglione, 95 Catholics and Catholic Church, 208; attack by Boxers on, 104, 108, 125, 153, 156, 160, 162–63, 280; missionaries of, 26, 62, 79, 107, 124; privileged status in China of, 15–16, 103, 107, 196 CCP. See Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Ce Nan (poet), 235 Cen Can (poet), 38 Central Executive Committee, Kuomintang, 282 Central Reserve Bank of China, 318 Chafee, Gen. Adna R., 155 Chang Chih-chung, 301 Charlie the cockatoo, 329–31, 333 Chen Duxiu, 260 Chen, Eugene, 278 Chen Shengzhi (poet), 195 Chen Yi, 322 Chennault, Claire, 292, 298 Chester Ronning Museum, in Fancheng, 257 Chiang Kai-shek: American relations with, 257, 289, 292, 300–302, 311, 39; conflict with Communists, 269, 272, 280, 282–84; conflict with students, 312; corruption of, 286; flight to Taiwan, 319; leadership of Northern Expedition, 269; military defeat of, 320–21, 335, 346; relations with Chester Ronning, 299, 302; relations with Madame Chiang Kai-shek, 305; relations with Sun Yat-sen, 269; sent to Moscow, 268; war with Japan and, 286, 300 Chiang Kai-shek, Madame, 284, 305, 315 Chicago Daily News, 314 China Inland Mission, xvi, xix, 7, 12, 14, 17, 28, 32, 58, 162–63, 196, 287, 344 Chinese Civil War, xiii, xvi, xvii, xviii, xxiii, 257, 260, 279, 282, 284, 300, 306, 311–12, 316, 320 Chinese Communist Party (CCP), xiv, xxi, xviii; civil war and, 257, 279, 284, 289...