An introduction to a periodic series of journal posts reflecting on living with war, both past and present.
Tag: China
Mom’s Chinese diploma
My mother earned two medical degrees, the first in 1936 and the second twelve years later. She always displayed the 1936 Chinese diploma in the most prominent spot.
The Minya Gongka, 1932
An oil painting of a stunning mountain landscape hung in my childhood home.…Few people outside of the mountaineering world know of this mountain on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau, but in my family the Minya Gongka is the stuff of stories.
China, 1930
My parents were newlyweds in 1930 when they crossed the Pacific Ocean to Shanghai, China. They were bound for the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province and their first of two tours of duty as medical missionaries.
Jacquelyn Lenox Tuxill 