Nursing Shifts in Sichuan

Nursing Shifts in Sichuan is a testament to the resilience of educated women, exploring modern nursing as one of the most consequential additions to health care in early-twentieth-century China.

Sonya Grypma is internationally recognized for her work on missionary nursing in China. She is the author of Healing Henan: Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888–1947 and China Interrupted: Japanese Internment and the Reshaping of a Canadian Missionary Community. Grypma served as the dean of nursing at Trinity Western University before becoming Vice Provost of Leadership and Graduate Studies. She is the past president of the Canadian Association for Schools of Nursing.

"Nursing Shifts in Sichuan is a professionally produced, well written and genuinely worthwhile read for specialists and historical globetrotters alike."

Minghui Li:

Nursing Shifts in Sichuan makes valuable contributions to the growing literature on medical missionary and nursing in modern China.

Barbra Mann Wall, professor, nursing, University of Virginia:

Nursing Shifts in Sichuan is truly hard to put down! This is an exciting read, albeit sometimes a sad one, written by an outstanding scholar of nursing, religion, and mission. Social history at its best.

Sioban Nelson, professor, nursing, University of Toronto:

This is an important book and a riveting story.