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...China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had alerted him to an outbreak of deadly pneumonic plague near the Russian border. A Cambridge-educated vice director of the Imperial Army Medical College, Wu, then just 31, was to report immediately to Beijing before heading to Harbin in China's remote northeast...
...scattered to Singapore, Australia and the U.S., where I was born and raised. Yet last month, almost a full century later, I found myself making the same journey my great-grandfather made that winter. After flying to Beijing from my current home in Hong Kong, I headed to Harbin to attend the opening of the Wu Lien-teh Memorial Hospital and the 60th anniversary of another hospital affiliated with Harbin Medical University, one of several medical institutions founded by Wu. Some 700 government officials as well as doctors from China and abroad attended the elaborate, televised event. Walking around...
...whatsoever with the Party and whose life's work transcends any ideology. "In today's society, people's outlook and values have big problems; people are focused on their individual interests and, frankly, on making money," said Gu Yingqi, China's former Vice Minister of Health, who attended the Harbin ceremonies. "Not only can we in the health field learn from Wu Lien-teh, everyone can learn from his international spirit and his care for others...
...Harbin, upon meeting me, one nursing student gushed, "She resembles Dr. Wu!" I didn't mind being recognized for being someone's relation rather than for being myself. Chinese authorities have resurrected my great-grandfather because they think his memory can help create a kinder, gentler society. That gives me profound happiness - and gives China, I believe, reason for hope...
...seeing what an injection of money can and can't do to a local economy. Governments from the U.S. to China - anyone who believes that opening the fiscal spigot can stave off disaster, and especially those who think that public spending can polish up rustbelt cities like Detroit or Harbin - would be advised to take some east German lessons. (See pictures of Detroit's decline...