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FROM REDNECKS TO RED CHINA is a collection of anecdotes related to my stay in Beijing in 1986, which I started to write in the late 90's.

The Development of relief work, in and out of war.

The Chinese cuisine we ate everyday was not what we expected.

I flew to China for the first time, in 1986, to be a student of Mandarin for six months in Beijing.

Shortly after my arrival, I purchased a second-hand bicycle...

In the early 70's, I was the odd one to study Chinese in France. In those days, what inspired me, besides Pearl Buck's novels and "The Blue Lotus", was the challenge of a difficult language.

How "a black, leather-bound album containing photographs, and a one-year diary by a 19-year old ambulance driver named Charles C. Leonard, Judy's grandfather" became a book over 100 years later.

In the 80's, Northern China was bitterly cold in the winter, outdoors as much as indoors, despite central heating.

Friend of France

In the fall of 1914, the United States had three ambassadors in Paris...

In Spring 2019, American Field Service ambulance driver John Wright, accompanied by his son Jerry, returned to visit a place and time like no other in his long eventful life

Section 8 left Paris May, 1916; it became Section 628 in September,1917.

Section 18 left Paris May, 1917; with men from Section 70, it became Section 636 in November, 1917.

Section 15 left Paris April, 1917; it became Section 633 November,1917.

Section 4 left Paris November, 1915; it became Section 627 in September 1917.

Section 14 left Paris March, 1917; it became Section 632, December,1917.

Section 9 left Paris August, 1916; it became Section 629, September,1917.

Section 19 left Paris May, 1917, and became Section 637 September,1917.

Section 1 left Paris January, 1915; it became Section 625 in September, 1917.

Section One continued (Part II)

Section One continued (Part 3)

Section 17 left Paris April, 1917 and became Section 635, November,1917.

Section 70 left for the Front July, 1917; it became Section 636 with the Ford cars of Section 18, November, 1917.

Section 71 left for the Front August, 1917; it became Section 641 with Section 29 in November, 1917.

Section 72 left for the Front August, 1917; it became Section 639, with cars of Section 27, in November, 1917.

Section 16 left Paris April, 1917 and became Section 634, November,1917.

Section 68 left for the Front July, 1917; became Section 621,September, 1917.

Section 65 left for the Front June, 1917 and became Section 622 in September, 1917.

Section 64 left for the Front June, 1917; it ceased to exist upon the militarization of the Service.

Section 69 left for the Front July, 1917, it became Section 638 with the Ford cars of Section 26.

Section 67 left for the Front July, 1917; it became Section 624 in September, 1917.

Section 66 left for the Front July, 1917; it became Section 623 in September, 1917.

Section 10 left Paris for Salonica in December, 1916; it was dissolved upon return to France in October, 1917.