Note on verso: "411. CHRISTIAN DOCTOR FU LIEN-CHANG, head of soviet Central Medical Bureau in Yenan. Educated at London Mission Hospital in Tingchow, Gukien, Dr. Fu is still a believer in Christian ethics. He is the first doctor to join the Red Army. When Ho Lung went to Tingchow in 1927 he sent wounded soldiers to the hospitals for acre, but all the foreign and Chinese doctors ran away except Dr. Fu and one or two assistants. Dr. Fu was highly indignant at this un-Christian action by the foreigners and undertook the work of mercy himself, deciding afterward to join the Red Army. No 43 with an advanced case of tuberculosis Dr. Fu is still busy at his work. During the years October 1934 to June, 1936, he doctored the Red Army on the Long March. With Chu Teh he crossed the Grasslands three times and the Sikong (Thibet) snow mountains seven times! When Dr. Fu left Tingchow the Kuomintang executed his daughter 21 years old and her husband, together with four of Dr. Fu's medical students and his pharmacist, T'ang I-chen. As principal of the Medical College in Juikin, Kiangsi, Dr. Fu trained 20 Red doctors and 60 nurses. Dr. Fu's family were devout Christians and he seems to have been led into the communist movement by Christian humanitarianism, as many Chinese Communists have been. Photo by Nym Wales, 1937."

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