Notables China

Dr. Albert Menzo Dunlap, known as A. M. Dunlap, M.D., spent nearly all of his professional career teaching and practicing medicine in China. He was one of the leading ear, nose, and throat doctors in the Far East. Hundreds of Americans resident in China were among his patients, as were such notables as the Panchen Lama, Count Galeazzo Ciano, and two of the Soong Sisters. He also treated thousands of Chinese, most of whom are entirely unknown to the Western World. He and his twin sister, Isabel, were born January 15, 1884, in Savoy Illinois. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1906, attend Washington University in St. Louis, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1910. A few weeks later he married Eva May Wyman, daughter of Reverend James Monroe Wyman.
Before he began practicing, Dr. Dunlap joined a few other recent graduates to form the Harvard Medical School of China, with the endorsement and moral backing of the Harvard Medical School. He moved to Shanghai and served as Head of the Department of Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases from 1911 until 1916, when the Rockefeller Foundation set up the Peking Union Medical School and absorbed the Harvard Medical School of China. Dr. Dunlap returned to the United States to recruit additional faculty, and between 1918 and 1931 he was in charge of the Department of Nose, Throat and Ear Diseases at PUMC, part of this time also serving as Dean. In 1931 the Dunlap family, now including three sons and three daughters, returned to Shanghai, where Dr. Dunlap entered private practice and headed the Nose, Throat and Ear Diseases Department of St. John's University Medical School.
Following the Communist takeover of Shanghai in 1949, Dr. and Mrs. Dunlap were under increasingly confining restrictions and were not permitted to leave China until October 1952. His experiences and his reactions to the Communist regime are recounted in his book "Behind the Bamboo Curtain," based on letters which he wrote during this period and sent to friends and relatives in the U.S. For six months in the winter of 1952 - 1953, Dr. Dunlap was Visiting Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Hong Kong. He then returned to the United States for good, settling south of Alexandria, Virginia. Mrs. Dunlap, the illustrator of "Behind the Bamboo Curtain," died December 1, 1966, and Dr. Dunlap died November 15, 1973. (submitted by his Granddaughter, Nancy Butler of Texas) 

 The London-based writer and professionally trained chef is the author of The Food of Sichuan (2019) (originally published as Sichuan Cookery/Land of Plenty), one of the most influential books ever written demystifying Sichuan food for western readers. The Chinese translation of her memoir Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper was a bestseller in China and was followed by a Chinese edition of The Food of Sichuan. The winner of four James Beard Foundation awards, Fuchsia has appeared as a Chinese food expert on numerous radio and TV shows, including Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, and David Chang’s Ugly Delicious. more about her: Fuchsia Dunlop