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On April 9, 1831, three famous surgeons from Guy's Hospital in London removed a giant tumor weighing 56 pounds from the Chinese patient He Lu. During the one-hour and 44-minute operation without anesthesia, He Lu fainted several times and eventually died on the operating table at the age of 32. This book takes as the main line the transnational medical incident of He Lu, a small figure who tried to knock on the door of China through Western medicine before the Opium War. It uses many first-hand materials at home and abroad to carefully depict the shock caused by this incident, especially the lasting impact on British politics and the history of modern surgery. It shows the political, diplomatic, technological, and cultural landscape of Sino-British relations, medical progress, medical ethics, and the image of the East.

Heaven and earth are the game, and all living beings are the chess pieces. Now that he has entered the chess game, he vows to turn things around!