Editing Norman Bethune (section)

===In China===
Virtually unknown in his homeland during his lifetime, Bethune received international recognition when Chairman [[Mao Zedong]] of the [[People's Republic of China]] published his eulogy entitled ''In Memory of Norman Bethune'' ({{zh|c=紀念白求恩}}),<ref name = "MaoEulogy"/> which documented the final months of the doctor's life in China. Almost the entire Chinese population knew about the essay, which became required reading in China's elementary schools in the 1960s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Norman Bethune |website=ChinesePosters.net |url=http://chineseposters.net/themes/bethune.php |access-date=August 6, 2015 |archive-date=October 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009023934/http://chineseposters.net/themes/bethune.php |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Three Constantly Read Articles|website=ChinesePosters.net|url=http://chineseposters.net/themes/mao-three-articles.php|access-date=August 6, 2015|archive-date=November 14, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114011832/http://chineseposters.net/themes/mao-three-articles.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> The standard elementary school text book still has the essay today: {{quote|Comrade Bethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his great sense of responsibility in his work and his great warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the people. Every Communist must learn from him. ... We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him. With this spirit everyone can be very useful to the people. A man's ability may be great or small, but if he has this spirit, he is already noble-minded and pure, a man of moral integrity and above vulgar interests, a man who is of value to the people.<ref name = "MaoEulogy">Mao Zedong, [http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_25.htm''In Memory of Norman Bethune''], December 21, 1939. ''Selected Works'', Vol. II pp. 337-38. Quoted in the ''[[Quotations of Chairman Mao Zedong]]'', Chapter 17: Serving the People.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Chinese still cherish memory of Norman Bethune |work=People's Daily Online |url=http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/23/eng20041223_168381.html |date=December 22, 2004 |access-date=August 6, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite conference |last=Jingqing Yang |title=Serve the People: Ethics of Medicine in China |conference=EASP 5th Conference: Welfare Reform in East Asia |publisher=East Asia Social Policy |location=National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan |date=November 3, 2008 |url=http://www.welfareasia.org/5thconference/papers/Yang%20J_communist%20ideology%20and%20professional%20ethics.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.welfareasia.org/5thconference/papers/Yang%20J_communist%20ideology%20and%20professional%20ethics.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=August 6, 2015}}</ref>}}
[[File:Comrade Bethune&#039;s Unselfish Spirit poster.png|thumb|1968 propaganda poster depicting Bethune with a quotation from Mao's eulogy for him]]
During the [[Third Front (China)|Third Front]] campaign to develop basic industry and national defense industry in China's interior, the eulogy was frequently assigned for Third Front workers to read.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Meyskens |first=Covell F. |url= |title=Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China |date=2020 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-1-108-78478-8 |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |oclc=1145096137}}</ref>{{Rp|page=94}} 

Bethune is one of the few Westerners to whom China has dedicated statues, of which many have been erected in his honour throughout the country. He is buried in the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery, [[Shijiazhuang]], [[Hebei]] Province, China, where his tomb and memorial hall lie opposite the tomb of [[Dwarkanath Kotnis]], an Indian doctor also honoured for his humanitarian efforts in China.<ref>{{cite web|title=North China Martyrs Cemetery|url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/92040/North-China-Martyrs-Cemetery.htm|website=www.tracesofwar.com}}</ref>

Elsewhere in China, the Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences ({{zh|c=白求恩医科大学}}) in [[Changchun]], [[Jilin province]], was one of the eleven national medical universities directly subordinated to [[Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China]]. The predecessor of this university was the Hygiene School of {{Interlanguage link multi|Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region|zh|3=晋察冀军区}} of the [[Eighth Route Army]] (八路军晋察冀军区卫生学校 in [[Chinese characters|Chinese]]) founded in 1939 by Bethune's advocacy. The school developed with Bethune Hygiene School (February 16, 1940), Bethune Medical School (Jan 1946), Bethune Medical University (June 1946), {{Interlanguage link multi|Medical University of North China|zh|3=华北医科大学}} (1948), {{Interlanguage link multi|First Military Medical University (1948–1958)|lt=First Military Medical University|zh|3=中国人民解放军第一军医大学 (1958年前)}} (1951 in [[Tianjin]]), moved to [[Changchun]] in 1954, Medical College of Changchun (July 1958), Medical University of Jilin (June 1959), Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences (March 1978), merged into [[Jilin University]] as {{Interlanguage link multi|Norman Bethune Health Science Center of Jilin University|zh|3=吉林大学白求恩医学部}} in 2000. There are at least three dedicated statues of Bethune in this university: in the west square of College of Basic Medicine, in the Second Affiliated Hospital and in the Third Affiliated Hospital.

He is also commemorated at three institutions in [[Shijiazhuang]] – Bethune Military Medical College, Bethune Specialized Medical College and Bethune International Peace Hospital. In Canada, Norman Bethune College at [[York University]], and [[Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute]] (a secondary school) in [[Scarborough, Toronto|Scarborough]], [[Ontario]], are named after him.

The biannually awarded {{Interlanguage link multi|Bethune Medal|zh|3=白求恩奖章}} ({{zh|c=白求恩奖章}}), established in 1991, is the highest medical honour in China, bestowed to up to seven individuals by the [[Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Health]] and [[Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People's Republic of China|Ministry of Personnel]] of China, to recognize outstanding contribution, heroic spirit and great humanitarianism in the medical field.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2009-04/10/content_11163574.htm |title=白求恩奖章 |trans-title=Bethune Medal |work=Xinhua News Agency |language=zh |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105102259/http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2009-04/10/content_11163574.htm |archive-date=January 5, 2014 }}</ref>

The 2007 [[Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival]] featured as its central theme a memorial to Bethune.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

Bethune is among the "foreign friends of China" that [[Xi Jinping]] cites in [[Foreign policy of Xi Jinping|his foreign policy]] discourses in an effort to recognize the contributions of other countries to China's national liberation.<ref name=":Shan">{{Cite book |last=Shan |first=Patrick Fuliang |title=China under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment |publisher=[[Leiden University Press]] |year=2024 |isbn=9789087284411 |editor-last=Fang |editor-first=Qiang |pages=42 |chapter=What Did the CCP Learn from the Past? |editor-last2=Li |editor-first2=Xiaobing}}</ref>