Ep. 160 | Jack Jones and the Friend’s Ambulance Unit Convoy
The story of Jack Jones is told today in this little snapshot of a little known organization that operated in 1940s China known as The Friends Ambulance Unit, later renamed the Friends Service Unit. It was a Quaker-funded charity that operated ambulances, providing urgent medical care and other charitable services during wartime.
In China, the China Convoy was created and in consort with the International Relief Committee, distributed medicines, medical supplies, and equipment that aided thousands of local and usually impoverished Chinese.
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Terms in Episode
| Pinyin/Term | Chinese | English/Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Ba Xian Guo Hai | 八仙过海 | The Eight Immortals cross the sea, discussed in CHP-052 |
| Bailie School | 培黎学校 | School for orphans founded by George Hogg |
| Chinese Industrial Cooperatives | 工业合作社 | Set up by George Hogg |
| Chongqing | 重庆 | Former city in Sichuan, now a direct controlled Municipality |
| Hakka | 客家 | Hakka people |
| Mao | 毛泽东 | Chairman Mao |
| Shandan, Gansu Province | 甘肃山丹 | City in Gansu where the first Bailie School was located |
| shi jing xiao min | 市井小民 | Common people |
| Sima Qian | 司马迁 | China’s Herodotus Writer of the Shi Ji |
| Xichang | 西昌 | City in southern Sichuan |
| Xikang | 西康 | Former province during the Nationalist days |
| Zhongguo laobaixing | 中国老百姓 | The Chinese people |
| Zhou Enlai | 周恩来 | The Premier of China |
| Zhu De | 朱德 | PLA founder |
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