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Title: New life currents in China
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Gamewell, Mary Louise Ninde, 1858-1947
Subjects: Missions -- China China
Publisher: New York : Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rchitecture, is fitted up as a socialhall for the students. The head of the hospitaland the man who must be credited with planningand carrying through the entire enterprise, is Dr.Chuan Shao Ching. He is a Christian, havingbeen a student as a boy in the American BoardCollege in Tungchow near Peking, and later gradu-ating from Johns Hopkins University. The Chi-nese are also conducting several isolation hospitalssuccessfully; one at Peking being of especiallyhigh grade. China furnishes two splendid examples of cooper-ative work between Chinese and foreigners. Oneof these is the Yale-in-China medical work atChangsha, the capital of Hunan, where the mostcordial relations are maintained. The work isgrowing so rapidly that it is hard to expand thefacilities of the plant at an equal pace. The otherplant is the Kung Ye Hospital and Medical Schoolin Canton. Here the work is entirely financed bythe Chinese, though three foreign doctors are on thestaff. The main buildings of the new hospital and
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A clinic in one of the new hospitals maintained under Chi-nese auspices. China is beginning to tackle seriously the problemof training her young people according to the most approvedmodern methods. CHINESE LEADERSHIP IN MEDICINE 69 medical school situated in the outskirts of the city,have recently been opened, and the Chinese havespared no money to make them as complete aspossible. It is an interesting commentary on con-ditions in China that when the new site was pur-chased, seven thousand graves had to be removed,the management paying four and a half dollars foreach one that was identified. Enter the Chinese Woman Doctor In the old days in China there were large num-bers of medical men but no medical women. Nowthat the Chinese woman doctor has emerged, it issurprising how eager young women from the bestfamilies are to enter the profession. And it is stillmore astonishing that their wishes meet with suchhearty approval from their parents, many of themdyed-in-the-wool conservatives. Gi

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