Word: changing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busiest doctor in Chungking last week was Chang Chien-tsai, a spidery, parchment-skinned man of 64 who never studied anatomy, dissected a cadaver or saw a microbe. He is one of the 800,000 herb doctors who still provide most of China's medical care. (At the highest estimate, there are only 12,000 Western-trained physicians in China...
...stream of patients keeps Dr. Chang busy in his office from noon until nearly midnight. After that he visits his private patients. What amazes Westerners in Chungking is not the number of his patients but their prominence: he attends such august personages as the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang, Cabinet Ministers T. V. Soong, H. H. Kung, Chen Cheng and police head...
...Fact. The Chinese Government asked Donald to establish a Bureau of Economic Information to gather the little-known facts about China and tell them to the Chinese and to the world. Donald did. In 1928, the Old Marshal, Chang Tso-lin, Warlord of Manchuria, uttered a frantic call for his services. Donald served him and, later, his son, Chang Hsueh-liang, until Chiang Kai-shek called him, soon after Japan invaded China...
...Donald, too, who became the intermediary for Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Government when the Old Marshal's son, Chang, kidnapped the Generalissimo in 1936. As usual, he was just the man for the ticklish...
...further study at Columbia. On the side he clerked for the National City Bank, then suddenly chucked it all for a business career in China. He was 29, a middling success as a coal-&-iron merchant, a young family man married to a former missionary-school belle, Lu-Yee Chang, when history knocked at his door again. As usual, history had the face of Dr. Sun Yatsen...