Bamboo Stone: The Evolution of a Chinese Medical Elite

by Karen Minden

Book Overview

In the late nineteenth century, Canadian missionaries developed a medical training program for Chinese students in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, in southwestern China. From modest beginnings, the training evolved into a medical and dental college at West China Union University, a joint venture by five Western mission boards. The college provided an institutional setting for the interaction of two cultures for the transmission of Western medical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1502917718
• ISBN13: 9781502917713
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"