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legacies Robert Lim’s vision. The account also spans the 1949-divide in Mainland China, contributing to the growing body of scholarship highlighting continuities in medical care provision in the 1950s and beyond.2 Soon’s claim that the Chinese Communist Party “fostered a sense of wartime urgency,” allowing for biomedical expansion deserves explication in future scholarship, but his own contribution on the importance of wartime institutions to the development of biomedicine in China is solid (p. 203).