From @UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU:owner-china-nt@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU Thu May 5 19:18:27 1994 Date: Thu, 5 May 1994 15:51:44 -0400 Reply-To: Hong Yang Sender: China-Net From: Hong Yang Subject: Chinese Community Bulletin (CCB 940505) Comments: To: china-nt@uga.cc.uga.edu To: Multiple recipients of list CHINA-NT ===+==+==+==+==+==+== Chinese Community Bulletin ==+==+==+==+==+==+=== (CCB 940505) +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Chinese Community Bulletin (CCB) is one of the supplementary issues of Chinese Community Forum (CCF). CCB collects contributions on various topics which are not published in CCF regular issues or other supplementary issues. The opinions expressed in CCB do not necessarily represent the views of the Editorial Board of CCF. Contributions to the discussions and suggestions of new topics are very much appreciated. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Table of Contents: Sender Lines +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= 1. A Home-Visiting Chinese Student Died in Shanghai Hospital, Petition Letter ....................... Zhen-Yu Sun 221 2. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology ... I-Ping Liu 129 3. Infomation about Airfare to China .................... LU 9 4. Some Statistics about China .......................... Hu ZhiLiang 9 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Zhen-Yu Sun , 5/1/94 Subject: A Home-Visiting Chinese Student Died in Shanghai Hospital, Petition Letter ZHAO Hua, a fellow Chinese student studying at University of Wisconsin at Madison, flew home with his wife excited to visit his in-laws in Beijing and his parents in Shanghai on Dec. 26, 1993. But he never made the trip back to continue his Ph.D study. He passed away suddenly on Jan. 20 in Shanghai due to the flagrant negligence of some medical doctors in Huashan Hospital. The following is a summary of events that led up to Hua's death. During his first week of stay in Beijing, Hua was prescribed some medicine for a dental ailment. He noticed that after a few days the medicine caused his gums to bleed but was not alarmed since he was in good spirits and felt fine. After traveling to Shanghai he noticed that he had blood in his urine and possible internal bleeding. He was sent to Huashan hospital on Jan. 13 to have the symptoms examined and was diagnosed as being allergic to the medicine he was prescribed. He was advised to come back to the hospital for a blood test on Jan. 18. Again, the prognosis was that he was having an allergic reaction to the prescription medicine. He was assured not to worry. On Jan. 19, his condition deteriorated significantly. When taken to the hospital, he was found to have an extremely low blood platelet count. At this critical moment, he was denied to stay in the hospital's emergency care room for the night even though there were still two beds open in the room. Under the sympathy of a nurse, his mother fetched a bed from home and set it up in a corner of the emergency room. Next morning around 8:30AM, Hua started to have severe headaches. Until 11:00AM, the hospital finally allocated a bed for Hua, but no one was sure which bed it was and Hua ended on the ground for some time until the bed situation was resolved. From 8:30AM to 12:30PM, his mother sent for doctors eight times, but they responded only three times. In one instance, a doctor came and looked at Hua briefly. Then he asked if Hua could see clearly and left. In another occasion, a doctor told Hua to relax and take it easy. One doctor even criticized Hua's mother being too paranoid and said that panic would affect the Hua's spirit outside of the patient's room. At 10:45AM, Hua couldn't speak any more. It was around 12:30PM that the doctors began to start their job. But before administrating the medical procedures, the doctors insisted on full payment, no matter how hard Hua's mother tried to convince them that money was on the way. Valuable time was lost. At a critical time, Hua needed an infusion of blood platelets. The doctors said that they were out in storage in hospital. Hua's family was asked to find them on its own. When Hua's mother finally arranged to get the platelets from another hospital, the doctors didn't even make a phone call to complete the requesting procedure. Actually Hua's mother was told later by staffs in the blood storage center in Huashan that they were ready to make blood platelets at that time. In all the chaos, when finally Hua's parents-in-law brought four boxes of blood platelets and flew in from Beijing, Hua had already passed away at 4:50PM. The hospital claimed the official cause of death was M2a acute leukemia. However, the family found on Jan. 19, a doctor made changes on Hua's Jan. 18 medical records. In the aftermath, Huashan held two meetings concerning this incident. In the first meeting, they admitted in making some small mistakes in treating the patient. But in the second meeting, they disavowed any wrongdoing and responsibility. Until now, Hua's family still cannot go back to its normal life. Hua's 80-year-old grandmother, who was so glad to see her grandson coming back from far away, could not take in this tragedy and got sick in bed. Hua's wife, also a student at University of Wisconsin, has to delay her study and stay at home taking care of family matters. Hua's mother, a strong woman who hasn't recovered from the great pains of losing her son, was fighting an up-hill battle to see the justice served. But Shanghai Medical School, the management party of Huashan Hospital, is delaying an overdue investigation. Hua's former working unit refused to represent Hua because he was an overseas student. The help-me phone calls the mother made to a local radio station were disconnected every time without a reply. This incident really shocked us who know Hua well from college. He was known to be in very good health and was the sports minister in his department student organization. He is survived by his wife, his parents and two 80-year-old grandmothers. His college classmates are all very upset by this unfortunate incident and intend to help his family to fight for his justice. This tragedy is not only a tragedy of Hua and his family, but also is a tragedy of all overseas Chinese students as a whole. Not crying out loud now, we will see this happen again and again. We don't think that an overseas student should be treated like this in his/her homeland. We don't think a patient in need should be delayed medical treatment because of money. We believe the doctors and administrators of Huashan hospital should take their responsibilities for any wrongdoing. We drafted a letter to be sent to the Chinese media, proper ministries and People's Representatives to ask for a thorough and fair investigation and to identify the responsible parties. We included the appeal letter at the end of this report. WE ASK WHOEVER IS CONCERNED TO CO-SIGN THIS LETTER WITH US. YOU CAN SEND YOUR NAME TO peterx@zabriskie.eecs.berkeley.edu For more information, refer to "ftp://swordfish.berkeley.edu/pub/fudan85.html" in your mosaic tool. We have set up a memorial fund to raise money for Hua's family and to prepare for a legal action if necessary. Any caring individual can send check to Qing Ke (Coordinator of Zhao Hua's memorial fund) Dept. of Electrical Engineering Hopeman Hall University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 email qike@ee.rochester.edu Thank you for your attention and support. Let's make a difference and prevent such an unfortunate incident from occurring again. In memory of Zhao,Hua --a group of friends of Zhao,Hua fudan85@swordfish.eecs.berkeley.edu April 12, 1994 ====================A Short Resume of Hua Zhao====================== Hua was born in Shanghai on July 19, 1967. After he graduated from Fudan Affiliated Middle School in 1985, he went on to study at the physics department in Fudan University. He graduated in 1989 and went to East China Institute of Theoretical Physics as a research assistant. (The Institute is affiliated to East China University of Chemical Engineering.) Then, one year later in 1990, he came to America and went to Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana as a graduate student in Physics. In 1992, he started his Ph.D study and research in the Biophysics Department at University of Wisconsin at Madison. ====================Start of the petition letter====================== To whom it may concern, We are writing to you concerning the death of Hua Zhao during his home visiting trip in January 1994. Hua Zhao was a Chinese student studying at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He went back to China visiting his parents at the end of December, 1993. He passed away on January 20, 1994 in Huashan Hospital in Shanghai. This news shocked many of us who knew Hua well before and could hardly believe a young and fulfilling life could end so suddenly. More to our surprise, sorrow and anger, we learned later from Hua's family that some doctors in Huashan Hospital were totally irresponsible at their job and they were the direct cause of this tragedy. They made one mistake after another in the rescue process. Hua was denied to stay in the emergency care room for observation the night before his death when he was in critical condition already. The next morning, valuable time was lost when some doctors insisted on full payment before they could start their medical procedures, even though Hua's mother repeatedly promised them that money was on its way. At another crucial moment, when Hua needed an infusion of blood platelets, the doctors said that the platelets were out in storage and the family was asked to find them by its own. When Hua's mother eventually found the platelets in another hospital, the doctors didn't even make a phone call to complete the requesting procedure. Actually Hua's mother was told later by staffs in the blood storage center in Huashan that they were ready to make blood platelets at that time. When finally Hua's parents-in-law brought four boxes of blood platelets and flew in from Beijing, Hua had already passed away ... A doctor was even seen to be changing Hua's medical records on Jan. 19. After this tragedy, Huashan first admitted making a few small mistakes. But later it completely denied any wrongdoing and irresponsibility in the whole procedure. Until now, Hua's family still cannot go back to its normal life. Hua's 80-year-old grandmother, who was so glad to see her grandson coming back to visit from far away, could not take in this tragedy and got sick in bed. hua's wife, also a student of University of Wisconsin, went back with Hua. She lost her husband and now has to delay her study and stay at home for a semester to take care of family matters. Hua's mother, a strong woman, who still hasn't recovered from the great pains of losing his son, has been fighting an up-hill battle to see the justice served. But she has encountered enormous difficulties. Shanghai Medical School, the management party of Huashan Hospital is delaying a overdue investigation. Hua's former working unit refused to represent Hua because he was an overseas student. The help-me phone calls the mother made to a local radio station were disconnected every time without a reply. We think what happened to Hua and his family is completely contradictory to the government policy of encouraging overseas students coming back to visit, stay and work. It is also inconsistent with the policy of respecting knowledge and intellectuals. In order to prevent incidents like this from occurring again and to save all the patients who can be saved, we firmly urge you start a thorough and comprehensive investigation immediately and draw a clear and fair conclusion for Hua's family. Your prompt action will show the sincerity to welcome overseas students back to China. Hua's death is a great loss to his family, his friends and his country. His tragedy is not only of his own, but is of all. He is always going to be remembered by us. Signed by Guanlong Chen U. of Purdue guanlong@ecn.purdue.edu Fei Deng UC San Diego fdeng@ucsd.edu Fang Dong U. of Ohio fdong@helios.phy.ohiou.edu Yitong Gu U. of Dartmouth Yitong.Gu@dartmouth.edu Qing Ke U. of Rochester qike@ee.rochester.edu Zhen Hu Caltech huz@punisher.caltech.edu Jianfeng Ma JIANMA%UMAB.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU Jun Mao U. of Leicester oam@leicester.ac.uk Youbin Mao youbin@hotwater.stmi.com Yuan Ren U. of Mass. yren@deimos.ucs.umass.edu Bing D. Su U. of Virginia bs7m@virginia.edu Ye Sun USC ysun@physics.usc.edu Zhen-Yu Sun CMU zs05+@andrew.cmu.edu Jane Wang U. of Chicago jw@control.uchicago.edu Peter Xiao UC Berkeley peterx@zabriskie.berkeley.edu Lixin Yan U. of Michigan yan@server.physics.lsa.umich.edu Jihui Yang Wayne U. jihuiy@rocdec.roc.wayne.edu Kun Yang U. of Indiana kyang@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu Weidong Yang U. of Oregon wdyang@skinner.cs.uoregon.edu Hong Yu Montana State U. uphglhy@gemini.oscs.montana.edu Jun Zang CUNY jzang@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu Donghui Zhang NYU zhangd@acf2.nyu.edu Yuanhan Zhang U. of Missourri syzhang@slvaxa.umsl.edu Jiangwen Zhu U. of Wisconsin jwzhu@biochem.wisc.edu April 12, 1994 Zhen-Yu Sun ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: I-Ping Liu , 5/4/94 Subject: Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology This is a message from the Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology regarding the contents of some latest issues: (1) BIHP 63.3 (AD 1992) (NTD 180) The Knowledge of Frost and Its Connection with Agriculture in Ancient China ........................................... Hsiao Fan Buddhist Practice in Rural North China during the Fifth and Sixth Centuries ..................... Liu Shu-fen The Date of General Yang Ta-yen's Inscription Sculpted on a Stone in the Long-men Cave of the Northern Wei Dynasty ............................ Li Rong-tsung Research on the Lineage of P'eng-ch'eng Liu in the T'ang Dynasty .................................... Lu Chien-lung Some New Thoughts on the Ming Military Families as Seen in the Genealogies:A Study of Individual Cases .... Yue Chih-chia The Rise of the Society for Reflection on Faults in the Late Ming and Early Ch'ing ........................Wang Fan-shen (2) BIHP 64.1 (AD 1993) (NTD 180) Professor Ruey Yih-fu: A Bibliography ........................ Tu Cheng-sheng Professor Kao Chu-hsun: A Bibliography ...................... Tsang Cheng-hwa A Comparison of Cultural and Social Collapses ................... Hsu Cho-yun The Pastoral Economy of the Hsiung-nu and its Relationship with their Socio-political Organizations .. Wang Ming-ke "Filial Piety" and Northern Wei Politics: An Example of Emperor Hsiao-wen's "Ritual Reforms" ............. Kang Le The Chung-wu Army: A Case Study of the T'ang Provincial Commands ......... Huang Ch'ing-lien The Relationship between the Migration of Military Families and the Founding of the Two Capitals in the Ming Dynasty .......... Yue Chih-chia Chung Fan P'i Nan: A Preliminary Study of Post Designations during the Ch'ing ....................... Liu Cheng-yun Between Wen-shih and Chiao-ch'ou: An Inquiry into Chang Hsueh-ch'eng's Basic Categories of Intellectual History .... Yu Ying-shih (3) BIHP 64.3 (AD 1993) (NTD 180) Evidence for Shamanism in the Yangshao Culture of Neolithic China ........................................ K.C. Chang The Chia-wu Lunar Eclipse and Key Questions of the Shang-Chou Era ........................................ Lao Kan On the Disintegration of the Chou Feudal System: A Refutation of Li Hsi's Arguments at the Chin Court .. Kuan Tung-kuei On the Term "tien" in the Yin-hsu Oracle Bone Inscriptions: A Method for the Management of Subjected Peoples during the Shang ..........................................Qiu Xi-gui A Preliminary Investigation of Sea Shells from Yin-hsu in the Collection of the Institute of History and Philology ..............................................Jung Bor-sheng The Reconstruction of Example 5 of the Yin-hsu Buildings: Including a Discussion of the A12 Foundation and the "Ta-i-chiu-shih"................................ Shih Chang-ju Trial Excavation at a Walled Town Site of the Tsang Cheng-hwa Ch'ing Dynasty at Tso-ying, Kao-hsiung .............. Jeffery Y.T. Kao Liu Yih-ch'ang The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: A Source on the Early Modern History of Chinese, Philippine, and Spanish American Trade, with Special Reference to American Silver and Chinese Silk and Brocade .................... Ch'uan Han-sheng (4) BIHP 65.2 (AD 1994) (NTD 180) Officials' Vacations During the Han ........................ Liu Pak-yuen The So-called "Common Property" under the Co-residence System of the Sung ................ Lau Nap-yin Tung Ch'i-ch'ang's "Wan-luan Thatched Hall" and the Innovation of His Painting Style ............ Shih Shou-chien The Intellectual Transformation of the Late Ming and Early Ch'ing as Seen in the Crisis of the "Mind is Principle" Doctrine .......................... Wang Fan-sen Origins of Specialized Nomadic Pastoralism in the Ordos and Neighboring Areas .................... 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TAIWAN.) =========================================================================== I-Ping Liu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ZHEN@pine.circa.ufl.edu, 4/28/94 Subject: Infomation about Airfare to China The China World Travel is a travel agency operated by devoted and experienced Chinese Students. Now we have the lowest airline tickets to China or anywhere around the world. If you are planning a trip, be sure to call us at 1-800-368-9888, asking Amy. "LU" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hu@calshp.cals.wisc.edu (Hu ZhiLiang), 5/2/94 Subject: Some Statistics about China HARPER's INDEX, as of March, 1994: -- Chances that an applicant to the Chinese Communist Party in 1992 was accepted: 1 in 7. -- Number of films designated as compulsary viewing for Beijing school- children by the Chinese government last fall: 34. 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