LEARNING LIFE’S LESSONS

For years Peng Weixu, a sixth grader at the Gezhi Middle School in port city Dalian in northeast China, had worshipped Superman and Ultraman, the fictional superheroes who have spawned a spate of films and TV series. But now he has new heroes.

When the school reopened on September 1, Peng had an unusual first class. It was an interaction with Zhang Kuijun, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor from the Dalian Municipal Central Hospital, who had been to Wuhan, the city in Hubei Province, central China where the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic was first reported, to help with the medical treatment.

Zhang shared his experience of working in a temporary hospital in Wuhan for nearly two months, which awed Peng. The