Further Reading

The Friends' Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 6, April 1987

In 1886 the first Quaker missionaries went to China; in 1986 Quaker Peace and Service sponsored two Quaker volunteers to teach English at the University in Chengdu. This centenary was marked by a special edition of the Friends' Quarterly. It included articles by Charles Tyzack about the West China mission, and by Antony Reynolds about the Friends Ambulance Unit in China, as well as articles about Christianity in modern China.

The Missionary period

Davidson, Robert J and Mason, Isaac
Life in West China: described by two residents in the province of Sz-chwan
London: Headley Brothers, 1905
Library ref: 033.951 DAV

Kirkby, Joanna
The two oceans : the dark and the light
York : Sessions, 2001
Library ref: 094.2 KIR

Sewell, William G.
I stayed in China
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1966
Library ref: 033.951 SEW

Tyzack, Charles
Friends to China : the Davidson brothers and the Friends' Mission to China 1886-1939
York: Sessions of York, 1988
Library ref: 033.951 TYZ

The Chinese characters are from the title page of The Worship of God, by Isaac Mason. China, 1916 [Library ref: Box 221]

Friends Ambulance Unit in China

Bailey, Sydney D.
Peace is a process (Swarthmore Lecture 1993)
London : Quaker Home Service, 1993
Library ref: 004.S9 (1993) 

Davies, A. Tegla
Friends Ambulance Unit : the story of the FAU in the Second World War, 1939-1946
London : George Allen and Unwin, 1947
Library ref: 066 DAV

In addition to the FAU archives, the Library also holds some personal reminiscences of former FAU members. Check our online catalogue for further published works.

This on-line exhibition is illustrated with images that are copyright of the Religious Society of Friends. If you have any questions or comments concerning the images or the exhibition then please email library@quaker.org.uk.

The exhibition has been created by Joanna Clark and Julia Hudson.