The school and the dispensary

''But there you could have advanced professionally in all these years, and succeeded financially also to send more funds for your project here. After all, you couldn't have had the same level of success in China,'' Wang Lian remarked.

''If you mean success in material and financial terms, then yes—you're right. But if you mean professionally— as a doctor— then I am saving more lives here than I would there. You cannot estimate the satisfaction a doctor derives from seeing his patients get well. Oncologists are in profusion in England, but in China they can be counted on one's fingers. My sending huge sums of money would not solve the problem of filling the gap for a missing person. I am a person of limited needs,

Wang Lian, and so is my family''.