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Wraps. Zustand: Good. 22 cm. xiv, 313, [1] pages. Wraps. Page vi pasted in. Illustration on page 153. Footnotes. Index. Covers worn and soiled. Ink notations on title page. Occasional pencil marks to text. Some page smudging. American Friends Service Committee's involvement in Asia all began in 1925 in China. The AFSC sent Lloyd Balderston, General Secretary of the Philadelphia Friends Mission Board, to survey different parts of China and report back on the type of work that the organization may be able to accomplish there. Balderston found that there was a lot to be done in engineering, education, and social work. AFSC sent $1,000 to Balderston to support a joint project with native Chinese to build a village near Shanghai in its first official Asian project. Two decades later, the AFSC sponsored the Friends Ambulance Unit and Friends Service Unit to help the Chinese throughout World War II and the difficult postwar years. The AFSC never shy away from crossing political boundaries to help those in need. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) founded organization working for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world. AFSC was founded in 1917 as a combined effort by American members of the Religious Society of Friends to assist civilian victims of World War I. It continued to engage in relief action in Europe and the Soviet Union after the Armistice of 1918. By the mid-1920s it focused on improving racial relations in the U.S., as well as exploring ways to prevent the outbreak of another conflict before and after World War II.