A Frog Out of a Deep Well

A Board-Certified General Surgeon Recalls The Abject Impoverished Condition Of His Childhood In A Wartime Chinese Countryside. He Observed With Revolting Indignity Of How The Downtrodden And Trampled Poor Lived. He Joined The Revolutionaries In The Communist Campaign Hoping To Catapult Them To Become The Master Of The New Country. He Failed To See That Dream To Become A Reality. He Reminisced The Generosity Of Many Mentors Missioners And Local Clergy To Overcome The Odds. He Enrolled To Milan Medical School And Met More People Dedicated Their Efforts To Support The Missions Abroad In The 1950S. He Compared Western Traditions With Some Chinese Cultures And Found The Humanity Is Not A West Or East Tradition But An Innate Human Nature. It'S A Moving Story How He Travelled And Met Genuinely Kind People In A Position To Assist Him. A Practically Stateless Citizen In The 1950S Li Ren Had No Place To Go Nor He Was Welcome In Many Countries Because Of The Then-Existed Antagonistic Status Of Mainland China Versus Taiwan. He Expounded Some Of His Unconventional Philosophy Of Life And Urged His Progeny To Learn And Practice With Conviction. He Has A Boy And A Girl Plus 10 Grandchildren.