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Title
Students at the Omei Seminars, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 1940
Creator
Unidentified
Date Created and/or Issued
1940
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description
"'WHITE DEER SUMMIT (Behludin) 1940' Seminar for the Study of Jesus. Three weeks, 3 ½ hours every morning of concentrated group discussion, by 25 teachers of Religious Education and university faculty and students. Membership included MEM District Supt. Daniel Lee (PhD Drew), Luther Shao, PhD Yale, Nat'l Xn Council Dir, of Religious Ed., Rev Peter Shih, Dean of Union Theol. Coll. In Chengtu, Mr Dsang, Dir. Of Religious Activities UU. In 1940 the Jesus Study Groups bought for these summer seminars for university staffs and students: 2 large bungalows & site at Behludin
site, & erected Lodge at Omei
site, & are erecting Lodge at Lung Ch'uan Ih, 4 hrs. from UU campus. Thus on 3 mountaintops not far from UU campus, 6 seminars will be conducted every summer for faculty & students respectively. Leader of Behludin 1940: Prof Djou of UU Dept. of Mathematics." Three men and three women, all Chinese, in mixed Western and Chinese clothing,sit with books and papers in their laps on a bench on a covered porch.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 7.2 x 9.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m9534 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG011-417-0000-5554
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m9534
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG011-417-0000-5554.jpg
Subject
Religious education
Christianity
West China Union University
General views
Time Period
1940
Place
Asia
China
Szechwan
Source
YDS/RG011/417/0000/5554 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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