Junghsien Hospital Compound

Title: Junghsien Hospital Compound
Caption: Junghsien Hospital Women's Wing, 1914
Identifier: JGFA_008
Description: Taken from a grassy hill overlooking rooftops, a panoramic view of the hospital compound shows three or more substantial buildings within the compound and two long rectangular buildings built into the compound wall in the foreground. Rolling hills are in the background.
Commentary: Gordon Jones had a degree in engineering from the University of Toronto. Accordingly, the Canadian Methodist Mission assigned him to building hospitals and schools in four different stations between 1910-1913, when he was reassigned to The Canadian Business Agency in Chongqing.
Date Created: 1914
Location: Rongxian, Sichuan
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1787834/xuyang.html
Original Format: Photographic Print
Relation: Junghsien Hospital Women's Wing
Source: Jean Good Zamin
Provenance: Barbara Jones Good Family Collection
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-05-30
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: Mish Kids of West China: Footprints on the Sands of Time (PowerPoint given by Jean Zamin at the Canadian School Reunion, September 2010)