Nelson Fu or Fu Lianzhang (Chinese: 傅连暲; 1894–1968) was a Chinese medical doctor. He was one of the few Western-trained medical doctors to have made the Long March and later, in Beijing, a Vice-Minister of Public Health, to be responsible for the health of the Communist Party elite.[1] In 1955, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army.
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| Born | September 14, 1894 Changting, Fujian, China |
| Died | March 29, 1968 (aged 73) Beijing, PRC |
| Allegiance |  People's Republic of China |
| Service |  People's Liberation Army |
| Years of service | 1933–1968 |
| Rank | .jpg){kind=icon} Lieutenant General |
| Battles / wars | Northern Expedition, Long March, Chinese Civil War |
| Awards |  Order of Bayi(2nd Class Medal)  Order of Liberation (China)(1st Class Medal) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 傅連暲 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 傅连暲 | ||||||
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In the 1920s and 1930s, Fu lived and worked in the then-prefectural seat of Changting (now Tingzhou town) in western Fujian Province. He was a senior medical doctor at its British Christian missionary Hospital of the Gospel.
During the Cultural Revolution, Fu was severely persecuted by Vice Chairman Lin Biao as well as by his subordinates, particularly Qiu Huizuo and, despite Mao Zedong's attempts to protect him, he was subsequently beaten and imprisoned with the accusation that Fu was "withholding medicine when Deputy Commander Lin was ill [in order] to harm him". He died in prison on March 29, 1968, at the age of 74.[2] After Lin's death, Mao posthumously rehabilitated him in 1973.
References
edit- ^ Li Zhisui, Anne F. Thurston, Hongchao Dai, The private life of Chairman Mao: the memoirs of Mao's personal physician, ISBN 0-679-40035-4, 1994.
- ^ Yan Jiaqi; Gao Gao (January 1996). Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 229–231. ISBN 978-0-8248-1695-7.
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