Word: hsiang
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...People," said the tall, amiable Chinese in his Manhattan apartment last week, "are always progressing." In 67 years, China's Feng Yu-hsiang (known to the West as the "Christian General") has progressed at a fabulous pace. These days, a good many Americans who call themselves liberals hail him as a great Chinese democrat...
...turned to Buddhism. He was a strict disciplinarian, and when his soldiers were late for drill he made them stand in a corner for as long as they had been late. Once, when he himself was the offender, he cracked down on himself. "Feng Yu-hsiang is ten minutes late!" he bellowed on the drill ground. "Feng Yu-hsiang must stand in the corner for ten minutes." Whereupon he turned his back on his men and stood in a corner for ten minutes...
Toward the Mountains. Some of the pilgrims are slick city folk. Others are small townspeople with yellow incense bags slung over their shoulders with the characters chao shan ching hsiang-"toward the mountains to present incense...
...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...