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Mission to Siam : The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell / ed. by Joan Acocella.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824822538
  • 9780824863654
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 266/.5/092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • BV3317.H37 A3 2001eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on Transliteration -- Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell: A Portrait -- chapter one. Marriage and Mission 1911-1912 -- chapter two. First Term of Service Nan and Lampang, 1912-1919 -- chapter three. Second Term of Service Lampang, Phrae, and London, 1919-1927 -- chapter four. Third Term of Service Phrae, 1927-1928 -- chapter five .The End of a Mission United States, 1928-1931 -- Index
Summary: "Here . I have really lived."Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell arrived in Northern Thailand in 1912, the young wife of a recently ordained Presbyterian missionary. Thousands of miles lay between her and her grandparents' farm in Nova Scotia, where she had been born and raised. But over the next sixteen years, Thailand became her beloved new home. She was awed by its physical beauty--the great rivers, the orchid-studded hills--and became devoted to its people. Beginning as a nurse, she eventually directed a small hospital. There she discovered her talent for organization and hard work. She also found, to her grief, that her work separated her from her children. Mission to Siam casts unexpected light on colonialism, the Asia missions, and the convulsive changes that a newly united Thailand underwent in the early twentieth century. It is a significant contribution to the handful of published works that describe firsthand the experience of women missionaries. This is a heartfelt account by a strong, intelligent woman caught between what she owed her family and what she felt she owed herself: a calling, a career, and adventure. With a biographical essay by Joan Acocella and an introduction by Rosalind C. Morris.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on Transliteration -- Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell: A Portrait -- chapter one. Marriage and Mission 1911-1912 -- chapter two. First Term of Service Nan and Lampang, 1912-1919 -- chapter three. Second Term of Service Lampang, Phrae, and London, 1919-1927 -- chapter four. Third Term of Service Phrae, 1927-1928 -- chapter five .The End of a Mission United States, 1928-1931 -- Index

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"Here . I have really lived."Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell arrived in Northern Thailand in 1912, the young wife of a recently ordained Presbyterian missionary. Thousands of miles lay between her and her grandparents' farm in Nova Scotia, where she had been born and raised. But over the next sixteen years, Thailand became her beloved new home. She was awed by its physical beauty--the great rivers, the orchid-studded hills--and became devoted to its people. Beginning as a nurse, she eventually directed a small hospital. There she discovered her talent for organization and hard work. She also found, to her grief, that her work separated her from her children. Mission to Siam casts unexpected light on colonialism, the Asia missions, and the convulsive changes that a newly united Thailand underwent in the early twentieth century. It is a significant contribution to the handful of published works that describe firsthand the experience of women missionaries. This is a heartfelt account by a strong, intelligent woman caught between what she owed her family and what she felt she owed herself: a calling, a career, and adventure. With a biographical essay by Joan Acocella and an introduction by Rosalind C. Morris.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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