Nelson Fu

Nelson Fu or Fu Lianzhang (Chinese: 傅连暲; 1894–1968) was a Chinese medical doctor. He was one of the few Western-trained medical doctors to have made the Long March and later, in Beijing, a Vice-Minister of Public Health, to be responsible for the health of the Communist Party elite.[1] In 1955, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army.

Fu Lianzhang
Nelson Fu
BornSeptember 14, 1894
Changting, Fujian, China
DiedMarch 29, 1968(1968-03-29) (aged 73)
Beijing, PRC
Allegiance People's Republic of China
Service/branch People's Liberation Army
Years of service1933–1968
Rank Lieutenant General
Battles/warsNorthern Expedition, Long March, Chinese Civil War
Awards Order of Bayi
(2nd Class Medal)
Order of Liberation (China)
(1st Class Medal)
Nelson Fu
Traditional Chinese傅連暲
Simplified Chinese傅连暲
Fu Lianzhang museum in Changting, Fujian

In the 1920s and 1930s, Fu lived and worked in the then-prefectural seat of Changting (now Tingzhou town) in western Fujian Province. He was a senior medical doctor at its British Christian missionary Hospital of the Gospel.

During the Cultural Revolution, Fu was severely persecuted by Vice Chairman Lin Biao as well as by his subordinates, particularly Qiu Huizuo and, despite Mao Zedong's attempts to protect him, he was subsequently beaten and imprisoned with the accusation that Fu was "withholding medicine when Deputy Commander Lin was ill [in order] to harm him". He died in prison on March 29, 1968, at the age of 74.[2]

References
  1. Li Zhisui, Anne F. Thurston, Hongchao Dai, The private life of Chairman Mao: the memoirs of Mao's personal physician, ISBN 0-679-40035-4, 1994.
  2. Yan Jiaqi; Gao Gao (January 1996). Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 229–231. ISBN 978-0-8248-1695-7.


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