RAS STUDIO
Tuesday 14th April, 2009 at 7.00pm
1oz3, Australian Lifestyle, No. 1 Yueyang Road (function room)
(Opposite Pushkin Monument at the junction of Fenyang, Yueyang, Dongping & Taojiang Roads)
Shanghai, 1942–1945: The Henry Pringle story
By Dr John Gray
Ten months after the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, in December 1941, the then 40-years-old, China-born Britisher Henry Pringle, was arrested by the Japanese military police. He spent the next three years as a prisoner-of-war.
This talk marks the publication by Earnshaw Books of an illustrated book Bridge House Survivor by Henry Pringle about his traumatic prison experiences. It was completed in October 1948 however the communist revolution intervened and in December he and his family left for Australia where there was no interest in its publication.
The speaker will talk about the author’s prison experiences and the influence they had on his later life, at the same time providing background on his earlier life in China. A unique 20-minute DVD of home-movie film taken by the author about his imprisonment will be shown.
John Gray is married to Eileen (Pixie) Gray, the youngest daughter of the late Henry Pringle. Pixie has written the book’s introduction as well as the edited transcript, included in the book, of her talk to the RAS last August. John’s main interest in his retirement is the history of Australia’s national capital. He has published two books.
ENTRANCE: 30 Rmb for members, 80 Rmb for guests –
Membership applications and membership renewals will be available this evening.
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