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German military doctor Asmi first went to Beijing with the German Expeditionary Force in 1900 to perform military medical duties. The mission ended in 1903 and returned to Germany via Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, and Myanmar. In 1906, he was appointed by the German Foreign Ministry to go to China again and opened a hospital in Chongqing to practice medicine until his death in 1935. The German Pusey Hospital chaired by Asmi in Chongqing once had the highest number of patients among the four foreign hospitals in Chongqing. The German government stopped funding the hospital due to the defeat in World War I. The hospital was taken over by the Red Cross Society of China and became the first Red Cross hospital in Chongqing. Asmi also became the first Red Cross hospital director in Chongqing. He has made contributions to the development of medicine in Chongqing and improving the health status of Chongqing people. The book is divided into five chapters: Asmi's life, Beijing period, long return journey, retrograde Yang Zijiang, and medical practice in Chongqing. Most of them are diaries, written reports and photos left by Asmi, and a small part are compiled by his descendants based on relevant information. The author took a large number of historical photos and written records to preserve the customs, geology and hydrology of some areas in China a hundred years ago.