Word: seng
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...summer of 1938, Physiologist Robert Kho-seng Lim, who had served in World War I with the British Royal Army Medical Corps, left his laboratory in Peiping Union Medical College to organize the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps (to train doctors, nurses and orderlies). Driven from one town to another by the Japanese invasion, the medical workers finally settled in the hills of Kweiyang, Kweichow, in thatched huts of log and plaster. Kweiyang, more than a thousand miles southwest of Peking, is now the medical centre of Free China: there are the refugee remains of famed National Hsiangya Medical...