Li Zongen (1894— 1962), born in Wujin, Jiangsu Province (now Changzhou), is a doctor of china tropical medicine and a medical educator.
Li Zongen's father was a scholar of Cohen in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, and he joined the Hanlin Academy, a county magistrate in Shandong. When I was a child, I studied in my father's new primary school, and later I entered Shanghai Aurora College (1932 renamed Aurora University) to study French. 19 1 1 In the summer of, he went to study in England, entered the preparatory school for the first time, and then entered the medical school of Glasgow University. 1920 After graduation, I worked as an assistant researcher of helminthiasis in School of Health and Tropical Diseases, University of London. 1922 1 was awarded a master's degree in hygiene and tropical diseases by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases.
1921From April to September, I participated in the survey of tropical diseases in West India by the Royal Filariasis Commission, and then worked in Glasgow West Hospital. 1923 returned to China. 1923 to 1937 worked in Peking union medical college, and served as teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor, professor Xiang and professor. During this period, he regularly went to Jiangnan to inspect the epidemic situation of tropical diseases and conduct prevention and control research. 1937 autumn, went south to organize Guiyang medical college, 1938 was established as the dean. 1May, 947, he went to Beiping as the dean of Union Medical College. 1948 obtained the doctor of science degree from Glasgow University.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Li Zongen mainly studied parasitic diseases, especially filariasis, schistosomiasis, malaria and kala-azar. Published papers 18 in medical journals at home and abroad. He has established observation stations for schistosomiasis and other tropical diseases in North China and Central China, and is the founder of tropical research in China. Later, he devoted himself to medical education and trained countless medical talents. He has been engaged in medical education and scientific research all his life, and has made in-depth research on filariasis, schistosomiasis, malaria and kala-azar, especially in leading the epidemiological research of kala-azar. 1948 was elected as the first academician of academia sinica.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, he has served as Dean of Concord Medical College, Vice President of Chinese Medical Association, member of British Medical Association and member of Far East Tropical Medical Association. 1September, 949, was elected as a member of the CPPCC by the National Association for Science and Technology and concurrently served as the chairman of the European and American Alumni Association; Presidents of European and American Alumni Associations range from 1955 to 1956. 1957 was labeled as "Rightist" and later "exiled" to Kunming, Yunnan, to work in Kunming Medical College. He died in Kunming on 1962.
1923 After Li Zongen returned to China, he worked in Peking Union Medical College Hospital, a private affiliated hospital of Peking Union Medical College Hospital founded by China Medical Foundation affiliated to Rockefeller Financial Group, USA, and built in 192 1.
19 18 Rockefeller Foundation invested in the construction of Union Medical College Hospital, and established an expert villa area here (another villa area located in Beijige Hutong, named "South Yard"), which took three years to complete. This building was called "foreign building" by Beijingers at that time. The whole courtyard still retains the western style completely, which is rare in China. Although it is now the family dormitory of Concord, the original building is well preserved. In the decades after the founding of New China, many top medical experts and scholars in China also lived in this courtyard.
According to an article in Beijing Archives, in order to meet the eating habits of diplomats, Chinese and foreign medical experts, foreign firms and clergy who were working or living in Hutong at that time, a "Modilin" western restaurant was built in the south of Xikou Road in Hutong, which should be regarded as one of the earliest western restaurants in Beijing.
Today, its original building is still there. Although it has long been converted into an ordinary restaurant and the third floor is still being renovated, the western-style architectural decoration still exists on the top floor facing west.