CH'IN, Kuang-Yu.

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Collection of 23 offprints, bound and inscribed to his academic mentor. A testament to the vibrancy and internationalism of Republican-era Chinese science, specially bound for presentation and inscribed by Ch'in on the front free endpaper, "To Dr Leo Alexander, my teacher in neuropathology. K. Y. Ch'in." In 1933, Alexander lectured at the Rockefeller-backed Peking Union Medical College, the symbol of modern China's scientific revolution, where Ch'in was a faculty member.Ch'in (1902-1969, also known as Qin Guangyu) enrolled as an undergraduate at the college in 1920 and completed his doctorate a decade later. Over the next ten years, as a professor in the department of pathology, he published research into histopathology in squirrels, liver degeneration, dermatopathology, and tumors. After 1949, when the co-operation of the 1930s had given way to suspicion, he was a person of interest to the CIA, appearing in confidential CIA reports on the state of the medical profession under Mao.Time in China afforded Alexander (1905-1985) the chance to explore new approaches to neuropathology and psychiatry, all the while living the exciting life of an expatriate in Beijing. "He saw himself at the cutting-edge of Western medical research, albeit in a foreign culture. He was an explorer of the human brain, ready to discover new and uncharted territory. Alexander's early correspondence to colleagues in Europe is filled with enthusiasm, a man pleased with his own achievements... In the course

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