簡介
One was the first Chinese to graduate from Yale University, another the first to learn western medicine in Europe and a third the first president of Tsinghua University. They were three of the 12 sons of Fragrant Mountain (Xiangshan, now Zhongshan) in Guangdong province who changed the destiny of China.
This book describes the lives of these 12 extraordinary men who lived during the late Qing and early Republican period and played major roles in the worlds of business, education, law, medicine and the military. They were pioneers in the modernization of China.
作者簡介
Mark O'Neill, born in London and educated at New College, Oxford University. Mark has worked in Asia since 1978, in Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, China and Japan, for the BBC, Reuters, the South China Morning Post and other media. Mark has written five books – Tzu Chi: Serving with Compassion, Frederick, the Life of My Missionary Grandfather in Manchuria, Chinese Labour Corps, From the Tsar’s Railway to the Red Army and this one. He lived in Beijing and Shanghai for more than 16 years. Now he works as an author, journalist and teacher, based in Hong Kong. He speaks and writes Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), French and Japanese.