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Born in China in 1930, I moved to America in 1980, staying
here ever since. I entered Yali High in 1945 and Xiangya (pronounced She-on Ya)
AKA Hunan Yale Medical School in 1948 in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province.
Both of them were set up early last century by Yale-China Association headquartered
in Yale University Campus in New Haven, Connecticut, established in 1901. I graduated
from the medical school in 1954 as a neuro-psychiatrist and entered its postgraduate
class in 1956 studying neurology for three years. For the next 24 years I had
survived the chaotic politico-social transformation in China as a physician, teacher,
translator, editor and writer while exiled, as a political punishment for non-conforming
citizen, intermittently to the backward countryside totaling for 13 years.
In 1979, one year after ending exile back to the teaching
job at the same medical school, where I often did interpretation for English speaking
visitors, including psychiatric professors from America, I had a chance to express
my interest to visit America. On their sponsorship and generous provision of free
accommodations, I came to America in 1980 as a visiting professor at UCI. Luckily
I passed FLEX at the first attempt the same year and later ECFMG. Subsequently
I had 4 year Psychiatric Residency at UCLA (1981-1985). I was board certified
in psychiatry in early 1990s. So I have trained and practiced psychiatry in different
cultural settings in both America and China for nearly 50 years.
I have always been interested in literary writing all my life.
So after recent retirement I have focused on it. What you will see in the website
is what I have tried over the years in this aspect of my life.
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