Norman Bethune was a Canadian surgeon who volunteered to help the People’s Liberation Army in the 1930s. Mao held him up as a model for emulation. See an animated storybook of Norman Bethune here and another collection of storybook pages here.
An animated storybook of Norman Bethune in China. See an oil painting of Norman Bethune meeting with Mao Zedong here. Below is the inside page of the book with Mao’s quotations. The first paragraph says: Comrade Norman Bethune is not benefiting himself, he only has…