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Zhu Lian

1909 – 1978

Wrote New Acupuncture (1951) and led the state institute that standardised the practice.

China·Traditional Chinese Medicine · Public Health

Yoshio Manaka

1911 – 1989

Surgeon-acupuncturist who built a biophysical model of meridian therapy.

Japan·Traditional Chinese Medicine · Medicine

Deng Tietao

1916 – 2019

Master physician of Guangzhou whose spleen-stomach theory shaped modern TCM curricula.

China·Traditional Chinese Medicine · Education