Bøger af Wei-Hua Lee

One of the great narratives of the last century is the rise of China on the world stage. The advance of medical sciences has played a pivotal role in this process, through vastly improving the health of China's people. This achievement was facilitated by the many Chinese medical educators who brought western medicine to their homeland in the early 1900s and educated thousands of Chinese youth to be medical doctors in the Nationalist era. To this date, almost all published material about the history of the development western medicine in China focused on a particular time period, specific medical fields, or certain medical institutes. But also of vital importance were the people who worked to make it happen. Without their extraordinary efforts, the development of Western medicine in China couldn't have been sustained though the tumultuous periods of war and the complicated politics leading to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Dr. Chung Un Lee is one of those Chinese medical educators who played an important role. He started working in the Department of Medicine at PUMC in 1923, after he finished his medical training in England. Over the next fourteen years he rose from an Assistant in Medicine to the rank of Associate Professor. In 1937, when the war broke out between China and Japan, Dr. Lee left PUMC for Southwest China and founded the National Kweiyang Medical College to contribute to the resistance effort. Over those eight difficult years, he helped educate thousands of doctors, nurses, and health professionals who later became the foundation of medical education and the health care system in southwest China. Because of his integrity and experience, Dr. Lee was selected by the PUMC Trustees to be their new Director on March 12, 1947, and took the lead in reopening PUMC after the war. With financial support from the China Medical Board, he reorganized faculties, staffs, and students during the difficult post-war chaos. PUMC was reopened in October of 1948, and quickly returned its academic standards back towards pre-war levels.Dr. Lee's career was abruptly interrupted after 1949 and he was labelled a "Rightest" by the communists in 1957 and demoted to Yunnan Province where he died in 1962. Since that time, his name and his accomplishments were purposefully forgotten. Very few at PUMC today have even heard of Dr. Chung Un Lee, president for 10 of its 100 year history and the first one who was Chinese. There is little information about the reopening of PUMC in 1947, which has rebuilt its foundation to become the best medical school in China today. These facts have never been recorded, partly because studying the original archives and published materials requires a dedicated scholar who is well versed in English and Chinese and also has an excellent knowledge of medicine. This is a daunting task. As time passes on, it becomes more urgent to document these important records of the development of medical education at this pivotal turning point in Chinese history.

In recent years, China has emerged from being a developing country to be an economic power house. More and more U.S. companies, including several from Indiana, have been investing and distributing in China because of its enormous market size and the largest population in the world. At the same time, growing numbers of Chinese tourists have been traveling to the U.S., mainly to the coastal cities and popular tourist sites. Although less visited by Chinese tourists, during this time Indiana did become a sister state with Zhejiang Province in 2009. Indianapolis then became the sister city of Hangzhou in 2014 and now over 10 Indiana cities have established sister cities in China.Even more encouraging, Indiana Universities have attracted many Chinese students in recent years. In 2015, Chinese students accounted for 31.2% of the entire international student population in the U.S, reaching 304,040 which almost tripled the number from five years earlier. Of that total, around 4,000 enrolled at Purdue University and over 3,000 at Indiana University. Thousands more enrolled in other universities and high schools in Indiana. All of this has had a strong economic impact on those local communities.At the same time, both the growing local Chinese community and families connected back in China have become more interested in the history, culture, and economy of Indiana - the Crossroad of America. Chinese people love to read and learn. Unfortunately, there has not been enough literature or information about Indiana written in Chinese language to satisfy their curiosity.Asian American Today, a non-profit-organization, is in a unique position to introduce Indiana to the Chinese people in their language. In fact, one of our missions is to help Chinese immigrants immerse into main stream American society and publishing these articles and the book helps us achieve that objective. In 2013, Asian American Today began publishing a series of articles designed to introduce various aspects of Indiana life to the Chinese community, including state parks, museums, culture and history. A few of these articles were even republished in the Wenhui Reader's Weekly (circulation 50,000) and in the Airport Journal in Shanghai (circulation 100,000). These published articles have heightened the curiosity of Chinese people at both sides of the ocean. To follow this pursuit, we decided to publish a book in Chinese about the Hoosier state, entitled "Indiana Stories", with in-depth coverage of everything that would interest Chinese readers.We are very proud that "Indiana Stories" was approved as a Legacy Project for the Indiana Bicentennial Celebration. The scope of this book covers the geography, history, nature, culture and people of Indiana, with a special emphasis on its uniqueness in America. Many scholars, scientists, and professionals, who were first-generation Chinese immigrants or visiting scholars, participated in this project. As the first of its kind, we believe that this book will attract broad interest amongst Chinese students, businesses, tourists and the local Chinese community. In return, as this knowledge propagates, Indiana may become even more of a focus for Chinese to study and travel, as well as a place to invest.

This is a collecting of research journal articals (English), articals published on journals (Chinese) and newspapers, speeches, letters, and diary (1958-1962) by Dr. Chung-un Lee, the founder of Guiyang Medical College and the first Chinese President of the Peking Union Medical College.