China – Becker Medical Library

Archives and Rare Books

Interpretative scholarly traditions and Chinese medical classics in the Tyler Collection

By Angela He — November 2, 2021

The collection includes approximately 7,000 works, including major texts in neuroscience and neurology.

Portrait photograph of Ying-Kai Wu addressed to Evarts Graham, 1940s.

Archives and Rare Books

Wu Comes to WU

By Stephen Logsdon — August 3, 2017

Ying-Kai Wu (1910-2003), also known as Y. K. Wu, was born in the town of Xinmin in northeastern China. In 1933, he graduated from the Moukden Medical College, located in present-day Shenyang. Wu then trained in surgery at the prestigious Peking Union Medical College in Beijing. There, he served as chief resident in surgery in 1938 and [Read more]