{"product_id":"b00a73j83u","title":"Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn American's diary of life in a WWII Japanese internment camp examining the moral challenges encountered in conditions of confinement and deprivation.\u003cbr\u003e\nLangdon Gilkey was a young American teacher at Yenching University near Peking, China, when the Japanese military under wartime pressure rounded up all foreigners into an internment camp. Two and a half years later they were released.  Shantung Compound  is based on a journal Dr. Gilkey kept during his imprisonment.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe prisoners represented a cross-section of humanity. There were businessmen, professors, missionaries, importers, lawyers, doctors, junkies, prostitutes, little children, the old and infirm. The moral problems arising in this polyglot community were shocking and the responses often surprising.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe camp became a living laboratory, a miniature society that illustrated the human condition and moral dilemmas in a way that would not have been possible had more conventional conditions prevailed.  Shantung Compound  is a fascinating memoir that is both a vivid diary of prison life and a theologian's mature reflection on the condition of man in times of stress ( Time  magazine).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52820859486424,"sku":"YSL36190","price":7.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/81p591kL5gL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793098447","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b00a73j83u","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}