Citations:Gaocun
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English citations of Gaocun
- 1990, Caspar Caulfield, Only a Beginning: the Passionists in China, 1921-1931[2], Union City, NJ: Passionist Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 138:
- Ernest Cunningham was missionary here and constantly visited the hamlets along the river from his church at Gaocun (High Village). At Boston College as a young man Ernest drove a taxi at night to earn extra money for his studies. This was a time of gangsterism during the prohibition era. The experience gave Ernest traits he did not lose. He would appraise carefully all who approached him, to the discomfort of some Gaocun catechumens whom he would not admit to baptism because they were opium smokers.