This pivot chronicles the life of Charles McCarthy, a San Francisco native and Jesuit missionary to China, and tells the unique and compelling story of a young man who experienced confinement under the Japanese occupation, followed shortly by imprisonment by the Chinese Communists in the 1950’s.
Amanda C. R. Clark, PhD, is the Director of the Library and Associate Dean of Special Programs at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. She has co-authored with her father, Leland M. Roth, Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning (2013) and American Architecture: A History (2016).
The Young Jesuit.- China During an Era of Change.- Return to Shanghai.- The Prison Years.- The Philippines, a Change in Course, and the Last Years.