Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure

Langdon Gilkey

Dec 2012 · Harper Collins

Ebook

274

Pages

Eligible

About this ebook

This vivid diary of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II examines the moral challenges encountered in conditions of confinement and deprivation.

About the author

Langdon Gilkey was a young American teacher at Yenching University near Peking, China, when the Japanese military under wartime pressure rounded up all foreigners into an internment camp. Two and a half years later they were released. Shantung Compound is based on a journal Dr. Gilkey kept during his imprisonment.

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