Katie Murray Oral History Interview, May 23, 1973

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Katie Murray Oral History Interview, May 23, 1973

1973

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/oh0008

Miss Murray, a missionary to China and Taiwan (1922-1959), recounts her experiences on the mission field. Included are descriptions of China and Chinese people, mission schools, Japanese invasion, refugee work, flight from China, conditions after World War II, attitudes toward foreigners, the breakdown of civil and moral authority, and the communist takeover of China. Particular note is made of idolatry, polygamy, ancestor worship, marriage customs, warlords, mountain tribes in Kwangsi Province, and work in Taiwan after expulsion from the continent.

0.01 Cubic Feet, 2 audiocasette, 2 hour, 41 pages

eng, Latn

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11621207

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Murray, Katie, 1897-1982

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Margaret Catherine Murray was born on February 8, 1897, in Kenansville (Duplin County), N.C. Upon her mother's death in 1905, she went to live with her Uncle George and Aunt Louise in Rose Hill, N.C. In 1920 Miss Murray relinquished a high school teaching position to attend a Women's Missionary Union training school in Louisville, Kentucky. Two years later she traveled to Peking, China, to attend a foreign language school where she learned the Mandarin dialect. In 1927 she commenced her missiona...