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World War II civilian prisoners held by Japan: J. G. Ballard, Tjalie Robinson, Eric Liddell, Agnes Newton Keith, Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, Margaret
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| Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Chapters: J. G. Ballard, Tjalie Robinson, Eric Liddell, Agnes Newton Keith, Petrus Josephus Zoetmulder, Margaret Dryburgh, Franklin Charles Gimson, Ranald Graham, Harry Keith, Rudy Kousbroek, Thomas Karsten, Albert Aalbers, Leonard Wilson, George Cathcart Woolley, Langdon Brown Gilkey, Day Joyce Sheet, I. H. N. Evans, Kenelm Hubert Digby, Michael P. O'Connor, Don Bell, Gerard de Zeeuw, Ben Bot, W. F. Gisolf, Herbert Hudson Taylor, William Young, Eddy de Neve, Robert A. Jaffray, Paul Thompson, Kenelm Hutchinson Digby, Alan Rice-Oxley, Mary Previte, Marcus Clarke, Francis Hollis, Ernest Tipson, Stephen A. Metcalf, Dixon Edward Hoste, Hobart Baumann Amstutz, John Peel, Edward Banks, F. Springer, Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke, Lewis Morley, Elly Kadoorie, Leo Vroman, Robert Smith, Norman Howard Cliff, Edgar Vos, Evelyn Witthoff, Lizzy van Dorp, Johannes Gabrielse, Randi Anda, Francis Arthur Sutton, August Kop, Maarten de Niet Gerritzoon, Ivo Samkalden, Constant Feith, Lubertus Götzen, Kick Stokhuyzen. Excerpt: James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930¿19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction. His best-known books are Crash (1973), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, and the semi-autobiographical Empire of the Sun (1984), made into a film by Steven Spielberg, based on Ballard's boyhood in the International Settlement and internment by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War. The literary distinctiveness of his work has given rise to the adjective "Ballardian", defined by the Collins English Dictionary as "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. G. Ballard¿s novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments." Ballard was diagnosed with prostate cancer in June 2006, from which he died in London in April 2009. In 2008, The Times included Ballard on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Ballard's father was a chemist at a Manchester-based textile firm, the Calico Printers Association, and became chairman and managing director of its subsidiary in Shanghai, the China Printing and Finishing Company. Ballard was born and raised in the Shanghai International Settlement, an area under foreign control where people "lived an American style of life". He was sent to the Cathedral School in Shanghai. After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ballard's family were forced to temporarily evacuate their suburban home and rent a house in downtown Shanghai to avoid the shells fired by Chinese and Japanese forces. After the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese occupied the International Settlement. In early 1943 they began interning Allied civilians, and Ballard was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center with his parents and younger sister. He spent over two years, the remainder of World War II, in the internment camp. His family li |
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