One Lifetime: an Oral History of Gu Fangzhou
by Oral Narration By Gu Fangzhou And Compiled By Fan Ruiting
About This Novel
A 90-year-old virologist who is still devoted to the cause of immunity. A little-known past story that saved millions of people. It took four years for the National Library's Chinese Memory Project Center to visit and compile it into a book. Traveling back and forth between Beijing and Yunnan, I visited many relatives and friends of Mr. Gu Fangzhou in order to present the history in a panoramic manner. He lost his father when he was young and his family was poor. The country fell, and I personally felt the humiliation of the subjugated slaves. In the 1940s, he followed his mother's wishes and studied medicine to make a living. Under the influence of progressive teachers and students, he changed his mind to public health and secretly joined the Communist Party. In the 1950s, shouldering the great hope of the motherland, he became one of the first batch of students to study in the Soviet Union. He stayed there for four years and studied virology assiduously. After completing his studies, he returned to China and devoted himself to the public health undertakings of New China. When he was in danger, he went to the Soviet Union to inspect the dead polio vaccine program and proposed a live vaccine technical route based on the national conditions.
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