This book starts with the life story of Xu Xichun (1885-1965), the founder of the Qingpu Branch of the Chinese Red Cross Society and the Qingpu Red Cross Hospital. Using his business and philanthropic endeavors in Shanghai as the foundation, and his family life and experiences as the background, it outlines how a young man from a southern "county town" went from apprenticeship to establishing his own business map and actively entering the public health industry along the Shanghai bund amid the urbanization transformation of modern Shanghai . The book truly restores the life of a merchant philanthropist from that era, while indirectly presenting the development of the Chinese Red Cross Society in the 20th century, and the historical and social changes from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.