Jane Bartlett Menut and her husband, Professor Henry Chase Brownell had been connected with Lingnan University in Canton (Guangzhou) since 1908. Their association with the University continued into post-war. Her husband was Professor of History and also the Dean of Men whilst she served as the Dean of Women.
During the Sino-Japanese hostilities, Lingnan University relocated to Hong Kong and held their classes at the University of Hong Kong. They had a young teenage daughter, Elizabeth Jane (born in China) with them during the fall of Hong Kong. The family was interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.
Obituary/Memorial: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L7TT-NH1/jane--bartlett-menut-1886-1977
Source
1. Plattsburgh Daily Republican dated 4 September 1942. See here
Comments
War in Hong Kong and Internment
Jane Menut Brownell wrote an article in Kappa Alpha Theta Journal, Vol. 57 no. 2: https://archive.org/details/19430100/page/117/mode/2up?q=brownell (Page 118, published in 1943) about her wartime experience and internment.
During the early days of Japanese occupation, she and her daughter and other Americans stayed at a friend's place up on the Peak. "Meanwhile, our host, pressed as we all were to leave the Peak area, claimed Irish citizenship and raised an Irish flag. The remaining 19 of us, undeniably of enemy nationality, were moved partway down the mountain to the battered home of one of our number."
It is very likely her host on the Peak was George Stacey Kennedy Skipton