Zhang Xichun (1860-1933) was a distinguish doctor during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China and a leading proponent of the “school of converging and connecting Chinese and Western medicine (hui tong xue pai 匯衕學派)”. Zhang insisted that traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine should link up and learn from each other, that traditional Chinese medicine should be foundation while Western medicine should be application, “Integrating traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine to form one.” but “theory of traditional Chinese medicine comprise that of western medicine.”. He invented a lot of effective new prescriptions combining Chinese herbs with western drugs and a lot of effective new Chinese medicine prescriptions. He was one of the earliest Chinese medicine educators in China and founded Correspondence School of Chinese Medicine.
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