Lloyd Balderston's Visit to China, 1925-26: His Reports and Letters Home While on an Exploratory Trip for the American Friends Service Committee by Balderston, Lloyd - 1988

Bethesda, MD: Poolside Publications, 1988. Wraps. Good. 22 cm. xiv, 313, [1] pages. Wraps. Page vi pasted in. Illustration on page 153. Footnotes. Index. Covers worn and soiled. Ink notations on title page. Occasional pencil marks to text. Some page smudging. American Friends Service Committee's involvement in Asia all began in 1925 in China. The AFSC sent Lloyd Balderston, General Secretary of the Philadelphia Friends Mission Board, to survey different parts of China and report back on the type of work that the organization may be able to accomplish there. Balderston found that there was a lot to be done in engineering, education, and social work. AFSC sent $1,000 to Balderston to support a joint project with native Chinese to build a village near Shanghai in its first official Asian project. Two decades later, the AFSC sponsored the Friends Ambulance Unit and Friends Service Unit to help the Chinese throughout World War II and the difficult postwar years. The AFSC never shy away… Read More