In the 1980s I was living in Shanghai, China, and working at Shanghai Charity Hospital – at that time called the Third People’s Hospital. Out of this experience I wrote the book Shanghai Doctor, published by Zondervan. Against the backdrop of hospital medicine, the book is essentially a biography if Chinese Christians transcending the realms of economics and politics as they realize Chairman Mao’s dream of the New Man. How surprised I was when recently I received a letter from a doc who explained that reading Shanghai Doctor help propel him into a career in medical missions!