Following bethune's footsteps
By Mei Jia | China Daily | Updated: 2015-01-01 07:53
Retired Canadian history teacher offers rare insights on nation's best-known foreigner with his biography
December marked 75 years since chairman Mao Zedong wrote the famous eulogy that familiarized millions of Chinese with the name of Norman Bethune (1890-1939), after his death in China.
The best-known foreigner in China, as Spanish diplomat to Beijing Ignacio Morro put it, the Canadian doctor is considered a selfless saint-like figure who helped the Chinese people through hard times, and the Spanish people in 1930s, too.
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