Word: hsiang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original staff consisted merely of a gatekeeper, a janitor and the doctor. They hung out a black-and-gold lacquered sign reading Yali I Yuan (Yale Court of Medicine), and patients began to drift in. Yali I Yuan was the first Yale-in-China medical unit, forerunner of Hsiang Ya ("Hsiang" for Hunan, "Ya" for Yale) Hospital and Medical School...
...Hume eventually became president of Hsiang Ya, helped to bring a new kind of medicine to China, also learned that China's ancient medical traditions had "unsuspected values" in terms of human nature and the psychological causes of disease. Medicine, he knows, can be "a builder of bridges between nations and cultures...
...book is much more than a catalogue of sights & sounds, or a stylistic appreciation of scenery. There are also a dirgelike visit to Changsha battle field; illuminating talks with Dr. Sun Fo, "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, WPBoss Wong Wen-hao; ferryboat rides across the dragonlike Yangtze; discourses on the world and its state; days with abbots, poets, children and cymbal-beating actors. Above all, Payne admires and respects China's students and professors, the guardians of the past and the planners of the future, whose great hegira from the coast to the interior never fails to fill...
Letters to the Editor. China's press and leaders suddenly became articulate about the plight of patient lao ping. Said General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The military set-backs will do us more good than harm. The more defeats we suffer, the more daring is the press in expressing its opinions. Previously we knew little about the fact that our soldiers were underfed and thinly clad." In a national campaign to "comfort the troops," great sums of money were collected. Little was donated direct to the Government for disbursement by slow-moving bureaucrats. But millions of Chinese dollars (on current...
Fire from the burning planes flared above the city and two Jap airmen plummeted cometlike to the ground as the fire from their flaming clothes spread to their chutes. But Allison was in trouble, too. His damaged engine was rattling. He headed for the Hsiang River, skittered over a log, set the ship down in the water. Chinese fished...