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 \nThis is just one tale in a never-ending kaleidoscope of equallyfascinating ones in McClure:The China Years.It's a great story-acompelling,absorbing story that consumes the reader in a way thatChina consumed its subject and his family from the dying days of the lastdynasty to his final departure from Hankow in 1948,two weeks beforethe Communists took over that city.  \nBob McLure's China years spanned nearly half a century of revolu-tion,war,warlordism,war again and civil war.The author,whose styleis often a little too folksy and staccato,nevertheless does a good job inweaving the historical events into the fabric of the whole,withoutdistracting the reader from his focus on the man himself.  \nBob McClure was born enroute home,as his missionary parents fledthe Boxer uprising in 1900.The McClures returned to China in 1901,and  \nit became Bob McClure'shome.His Chinese was sogood and his vocabulary so\"down to earth\"that at onepoint his father forbade himspeaking it in the house!Ateight he observed his firstexecution.At eleven hisnext,but with a difference:in the first,monarchists hadbeheaded republicans withswords;in the second,theexecutioners were republi-cans and they used rifles.Over the next generation hewould see more death inChina than any man should—death from the ravagesof war,drought,starvationand disease.  \nAfter returning to Canada to take a degree in medicine,Bob leftToronto for China again in 1923 to take the place of the murdered Dr.James Menzies at a missionary hospital in China's Honan province.Mc-Clure had little time for the more philosophical concerns of some of hismissionary colleagues.\"He was going to open up wounds,dig out shrap-nel,set fractures,remove cataracts,fight diptheria,deliver babies,stopbellyaches\".And he would do it as best he could.His motto,as he wouldtell his pacifist colleagues later when he directed the Friends AmbulanceUnit working the Burma Road and South China,was \"stop the cackle\"and get on with the job.  \nGetting on with the job meant doing everything from introducingradium to China for cancer treatment to performing every conceivableform of surgery.It meant cycling 40 miles at night to save a life,crossingenemy lines to salvage an X-ray machine,treating lepers in Taiwan andparachuting in to rescue downed American pilots in the Himalayas.Itmeant constructing home-made electrical plants for a hospital and takinga crash course in mechanics to keep an ambulance and eventually a con-voy of trucks running.On furlough,it meant criticizing the Canadiangovernment for selling nickel to Japan -nickel that McClure warned hewould be shortly digging out of his patients in China.The criticism pro-  \nvoked Mackenzie King into forcing McClure to make a public apology.The alternative,snarled the Prime Minister,was jail!It meant establish-ing a para-medical scheme in which his \"quacks\"became the prototypeof today's barefoot doctors.  \nHis life in China involved meeting Mao and Chou and knowing theGenerallisimo and Madame Chiang.It meant disarming bandits on theBurma Road and meeting a Canadian doctor by the name of NormanBethune who was on his way to Yenan\"well advanced in a rural Chinesepub-crawl”,still functioning though drinking wh","cbCaihCLMc4qvL0n","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihCLMc4qvL0n","pdf",3090790,21,"English","# Loving Lotus and a retaliatory operating-room vow\n# A half-century of conflict through McClure’s life\n## Medicine, logistics, and constant medical crises\n## Political and humanitarian work across regions","[{\"question\":\"What incident is highlighted at the start of the review?\",\"answer\":\"A bandit robbery of Loving Lotus leads her to threaten vengeance in the operating room against any bandit who enters it thereafter, which quickly restores control.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the review describe the book’s overall narrative approach?\",\"answer\":\"It describes McClure’s China years as a compelling, absorbing story that integrates historical events while keeping the reader focused on the man himself.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of medical and operational work does McClure carry out in China?\",\"answer\":\"He practices a wide range of surgery and treatments, cycles long distances to save lives, salvages equipment across enemy lines, helps lepers, and even organizes technical and mechanical support for hospitals and ambulances.\"}]","McClure - The China Years | PDF",1790728372,32]