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Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure
Shantung Compound The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure Author:Langdon Gilkey 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. — 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... more » camp. Two and a half years later they were released. This book is based on a journal Dr. Gilkey kept during his imprisonment.
The prisoners represented a cross-section of humanity. The moral problems arising in this polyglot community were shocking and the responses often surprising.
The camp became a living laboratory, a miniature society that illustrated the human condition and moral dilemmas in a way that would not have been possible had more conventional conditions prevailed.« less