Description
Author: Mountain Eye
Language: Chinese Simplified
Post: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-951588-00-7
Publisher: American Spiritual Literature and Art Publishing House
More than 120 years ago, during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, the daughter of an abandoned orphan and a priest flew across the sea to sail to the United States for higher education. In the late Qing dynasty, women’s education was almost non-existent. Girls were tied up at an early age, and most women stayed out of their homes for a long time. However, these two young girls became the earliest students and became one of the earliest students studying abroad. Four years later they obtained a medical degree and returned to become Christian missionary doctors.
In the late Qing Dynasty when people ’s livelihoods were dying, the folks tabooed Western medicine and had extremely poor health knowledge. They set up hospitals, orphanages, nurse schools, and elementary and middle schools … to become pioneers in medical care, women’s education, and mission. The reform party, such as Liang Qichao, respected them and regarded them as the pioneers of a generation of Chinese women’s self-reliance, which would lead to the advancement of Chinese women’s knowledge and thus promote the country’s revival.
The two legendary women buried in history are Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu.
These two female doctors, who had a huge influence in China and the United States at the time, lived in the era of poor ethnic and social turmoil and were enthusiastic about saving the soul and rejuvenating the nation. They experienced not only the suffering of the pioneers, but also the tension between faith and nationalism, and the turbulence of the wheel of the times.
How do they draw strength from their beliefs, how can they continue to serve the poor Chinese people with compassion and love, and affect the contemporary and later Chinese men and women … “Practitioner” shows lively and authentic characters and stories based on sufficient historical data, Restoring the face of China during the late Qing Dynasty, warlord melee, the Republic of China, and the War of Resistance Against Japan, takes you into the hearts of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, walks into the depths of their lives where both light and hardship coexist.
