Shanghai Park

Family Connections in Shanghai

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February 2nd 2010
Shanghai, China By May My mother was born in Shanghai, China. Her parents, my grandparents, met and married in China. My grandfather, Ed Rice, was a surgeon in Suzhou, a Methodist missionary surgeon. My grandmother, MaryO Holler, came over from South Carolina to teach school at McTyere School in Shanghai. Suzhou and Shanghai are close to each other, and there weren’t many white peop ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more