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Nelson Fu or Fu Lianzhang (; 1894–1968) was a Chinese medical doctor. He was one of the few Western-trained medical doctors to have made the

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and later, in Beijing, a Vice-Minister of Public Health, to be responsible for the health of the Communist Party elite.

Li Zhisui Li Zhisui () (1919 – 13 February 1995) was Mao Zedong's personal doctor and confidant.Derek DaviesOBITUARY: Li Zhisui The Independent, 17 February 1995 He was born in Beijing, China in 1919. After emigrating to the United States, he wrot ...

, Anne F. Thurston, Hongchao Dai
The private life of Chairman Mao: the memoirs of Mao's personal physician
, 1994. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of

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of the

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. In the 1920s and 1930s, Fu lived and worked in the then-prefectural seat of Changting (now Tingzhou town) in western

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...

Province. He was a senior medical doctor at its British Christian missionary ''Hospital of the Gospel''. During the

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, Fu was severely persecuted by Vice Chairman

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as well as by his subordinates, particularly

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and, despite

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'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

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to harm him". He died in prison on March 29, 1968, at the age of 74.

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