THE WAR YEARS With the outbreak of war, the faculties and many
of the students of the great state universities of the north
fled to southwest China to continue their intellectual work in
such a way as to aid in their government's resistance against
Japan. Yanjing, the American Protestant university in Beiping,
was closed after Pearl Harbor, and its core students and faculty
also went to the southwest. But like Fu Ren University, the
Catholic University in Beiping, Gong Shang College remained open
where it was. The Jesuits seem not to have given any serious
thought to moving to the southwest. Now the challenge of
maintaining the boundaries between their urban university and a
wartorn world was more difficult than ever. The Jesuit solution
was to defend the boundaries more energetically than ever, even
if this meant bearing the moral burden of making personal
compromises with worldly powers in order to protect the students
behind their walls. There were good Catholic theological reasons
for rationalizing that i