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Helen Bacon recalls childhood in prewar China
Helen Bacon, born in China near Peking, describes a life with rickshaws and Amahs under a missionary family. She remembers her father Charles Corbett and grandfather Hunter Corbett, schooling with American teachers, Cantonese and English language skills, and weekends renting temples, with memories of water, Forbidden City visits, and wartime disruptions before settling in New York City in 1923.
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Melissa Adams
Roswell
Helen Bacon
China
Peking
Peking University
Rockefeller Foundation
Charles Corbett
Hunter Corbett
Presbyterian Church
Goound
United States
Bond
States
America
Forbidden City
California
Mao Tse Tung
Stock Exchange
Shanghai
New York City