Mao Zedong wrote the essay 'In Memory of Norman Bethune'.
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history
Bethune developed mobile battlefield transfusion units in the Spanish Civil War before joining the communist forces in northern China in 1938. He died in Hebei after cutting his finger during an operation and contracting septicemia.
culture
Mao's 1939 eulogy 《纪念白求恩》 became one of the '老三篇' (Three Old Essays) memorized by every student during the Cultural Revolution, making Bethune arguably the single most famous foreigner in 20th-century Chinese school curricula.
