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"I was exceedingly weary, made a pillow of dry manure, and fell into a deep sleep, till
I was aroused by a bearded Russian pulling at my leg. Another caravan was coming.
The bandits had just robbed them and killed two men. Their bodies were on the carts,
already frozen, and one badly wounded man died in my arms."
This new group joined them, making 40 carts in all, and in order to get out of danger, they
broke camp and travelled through the night.
Somewhere on the road they saw the New Year in and they finally reached Shanghai in
January 1922. A number of these Russians whom GFA had rescued, became
distinguished members of the international community there. This opened a new avenue of
service to people in need, and over the next four years he assisted over two thousand such
refugees to find their way safely from the north-west of China to Shanghai and Tientsin
At last he was returning to Chefoo to catch up with his longsuffering wife Fanny and his
family. However in June 1922 he and Fanny
were transferred back to Kansu. He continued his
Johan Gunnar Andersson Swedish work in the Lanchow Boys' School as headmaster,
archaeologist, paleontologist and and in March 1924 a brief note in the Mission
geologist, closely associated with the magazine commented:
beginnings of Chinese archaeology in "It is interesting to learn that the Governor of
the 1920s. He participated in the Kansu has given Mr. G.F.Andrew an
Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901 unconditional donation of $20,000 towards the
to 1903 (on the ship Antarctic). expense of the Boys' School in Lanchow”.
In 1914 he was invited to China as It was also in March that GFA received a
mining adviser to the Chinese handwritten note from the Crown Prince of
government. During this time, Sweden, thanking him for the help he had been to
Andersson helped train China’s first Johan Gunnar Andersson, a renowned
generation of geologists. archaeologist, geologist and writer, during his
time in archaeological research in Kansu.
In the years, 1923–24, Andersson, in
his capacity as a staff member of The Crown Prince’s letter can be read in Book 2.
China's National Geological Survey,
conducted archaeological excavations I find that I am unable to continue without adding
in the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. a quote from Johan Gunnar Andersson’s book,
“The Dragon And The Foreign Devils”.
During this time Andersson was partly Andersson sums up GFA’s character, skills and
responsible for the finding of the his unstinting contribution as an instrument of
“Peking Man” at Zhoukoudian, 50 miles peace, hope and God’s love. I found the last
southwest of Peking paragraph which I have included fascinating
because it comes from a highly qualified Scientist
JOHAN GUNNAR ANDERSSON and author who is looking at missionary work in
China from the outside, objectively:
"I was exceedingly weary, made a pillow of dry manure, and fell into a deep sleep, till
I was aroused by a bearded Russian pulling at my leg. Another caravan was coming.
The bandits had just robbed them and killed two men. Their bodies were on the carts,
already frozen, and one badly wounded man died in my arms."
This new group joined them, making 40 carts in all, and in order to get out of danger, they
broke camp and travelled through the night.
Somewhere on the road they saw the New Year in and they finally reached Shanghai in
January 1922. A number of these Russians whom GFA had rescued, became
distinguished members of the international community there. This opened a new avenue of
service to people in need, and over the next four years he assisted over two thousand such
refugees to find their way safely from the north-west of China to Shanghai and Tientsin
At last he was returning to Chefoo to catch up with his longsuffering wife Fanny and his
family. However in June 1922 he and Fanny
were transferred back to Kansu. He continued his
Johan Gunnar Andersson Swedish work in the Lanchow Boys' School as headmaster,
archaeologist, paleontologist and and in March 1924 a brief note in the Mission
geologist, closely associated with the magazine commented:
beginnings of Chinese archaeology in "It is interesting to learn that the Governor of
the 1920s. He participated in the Kansu has given Mr. G.F.Andrew an
Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901 unconditional donation of $20,000 towards the
to 1903 (on the ship Antarctic). expense of the Boys' School in Lanchow”.
In 1914 he was invited to China as It was also in March that GFA received a
mining adviser to the Chinese handwritten note from the Crown Prince of
government. During this time, Sweden, thanking him for the help he had been to
Andersson helped train China’s first Johan Gunnar Andersson, a renowned
generation of geologists. archaeologist, geologist and writer, during his
time in archaeological research in Kansu.
In the years, 1923–24, Andersson, in
his capacity as a staff member of The Crown Prince’s letter can be read in Book 2.
China's National Geological Survey,
conducted archaeological excavations I find that I am unable to continue without adding
in the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. a quote from Johan Gunnar Andersson’s book,
“The Dragon And The Foreign Devils”.
During this time Andersson was partly Andersson sums up GFA’s character, skills and
responsible for the finding of the his unstinting contribution as an instrument of
“Peking Man” at Zhoukoudian, 50 miles peace, hope and God’s love. I found the last
southwest of Peking paragraph which I have included fascinating
because it comes from a highly qualified Scientist
JOHAN GUNNAR ANDERSSON and author who is looking at missionary work in
China from the outside, objectively:
