So there we were touring Changchun with our brilliant guide when she took us to a building which had been the HQ of the Japanese when they ruled Manchuria.
It was a very fine building with columns, sweeping entrance steps and pleasant grounds and she explained it was now a part of the university and housed the medical research laboratories and would we like to see inside if she could fix it?
wild horses would not have prevented a look around, she thought we would like to see the first elevator in China and the sweeping staircase and ornate lanterns,
I wanted to see the medical stuff! The building is dedicated to a Canadian doctor who fought with the Chinese against the Japanese and his statue is prominent at the front of the building. We crept in past a sleeping security guard!
Inside was a bit like a bad dream, as we passed down the corridors we could see into each of the research labs which reminded me of Steptoe's yard with shambolic piles of equipment, sinks, pipettes, jars, pipes and sundry stuff over, under and around ancient benches being used by students and academics.
At the end of the main corridor we approached a series of glass fronted cabinets which our guide said we may not want to view, we said of course we would, so there it was in all it's public splendour the stock of human body parts in jars, from hands to brains from stomachs to foetus and complete new born baby cut from top to toe to give complete cross section it was all there, we politely viewed and retired, crept back past the sleeping guard.
It convinced us to dust off our medical insurance!
Tony
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