Jack Jones is the bearded one in the image.  His story is told today in this little snapshot of a not very well-known organization that operated in 1940's China.  The Friends Ambulance Unit, later re-named the Friends Service Unit, was a Quaker funded charity that operated ambulances, provided urgent medical care and other charitable services during wartime. In China the China Convoy was created and in consort with the International Relief Committee, distributed medicines, medical supplies and equipment that aided thousands of local and usually impoverished Chinese.  The convoy service ran from 1945 to 1951.  Through the discovery of the lost writings of Jack Jones, author Andrew Hicks has brought this small story back to life.  It's not a big story like the Chu-Han Contention or the Battle of Red Cliff or the Cultural Revolution.  It serves as a reminder that besides the information that made it into the history books....there was this stuff happening too in many places all over China.  I strongly suggest Andrews Hicks's book, available here: http://www.fauchinaconvoy.blogspot.com and here: http://quakerbooks.org.     Go check out:  http://www.chinamoneynetwork.com hosted by Nina Xiang Terms from this episode Hakka 客家 Hakka people Mao 毛泽东 Chairman Mao Zhu De 朱德 PLA founder Zhou Enlai 周恩来 The Premier of China Sima Qian 司马迁 China's Herodotus Writer of the Shi Ji. Chongqing 重庆 Former city in Sichuan, now a direct controlled Municipality Xichang 西昌 City in southern Sichuan Xikang 西康 Former province during the Nationalist days Zhongguo laobaixing 中国老百姓 The Chinese people Ba Xian Guo Hai 八仙过海 The Eight Immortals cross the sea, discussed in CHP-052 shi jing xiao min   市井小民 Common people Chinese Industrial Cooperatives 工业合作社 Set up by George Hogg Bailie School 培黎学校 School for orphans founded by George Hogg Shandan, Gansu Province 甘肃山丹 City in Gansu where the first Bailie School was located