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Messenger of Light

Rating 3.5
Word count
167K words
Chapters
37
ISBN
9787802581197

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Summary

The Light Bearer is the biography of Mr. Chen Liang Yueming, JP, President of the Hong Kong Society for the Blind and a renowned philanthropist. It recounts her contributions to the education of blind children, the rehabilitation of blind adults, vocational skills training for blind adults, and employment for blind people, and also describes her assistance to blind people in mainland China and Southeast Asian countries. In particular, she devoted tremendous energy to raising nearly HK$100 million in Hong Kong to purchase 21 mobile cataract surgery vehicles, providing free surgery and poverty-alleviation through sight restoration for cataract-blind people in poor mountainous areas of mainland China—a feat that has won admiration nationwide and high praise from all quarters.

Editor's review

This is a biography focused on public welfare for the blind. Its subject, Chen Liang Yueming, devoted herself over the long term to the education of blind children, the re-education of blind adults, and their skills training and employment, extending her aid to the mainland and Southeast Asia. The book recounts how she raised nearly HK$100 million in Hong Kong to purchase 21 mobile cataract surgery vehicles, providing free operations and sight-restoration poverty relief for blind cataract patients in poor mountainous areas of the mainland. The value of such a subject lies in showing readers how public welfare work starts from concrete needs and lands on workable stages such as education, training, and medical care. The narrative follows her deeds as its main thread and is information-dense, suited to readers concerned with charitable practice, disability services, and nonprofit management. While reading, note how she integrates resources and drives projects to implementation; this is more instructive than moving stories alone. The prose is plain and the chapters are relatively independent, making it suitable for reading in segments.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Readers and practitioners concerned with charity and disability services
  • Readers who want to learn about public welfare cooperation between Hong Kong and the mainland
  • Those interested in blind education, skills training, and employment
  • Nonprofit staff who need case references for public welfare projects

Not a good fit for

  • Readers expecting a literary biography or psychological portraiture
  • Readers who want only light stories and prefer to avoid the practical details of public welfare
  • Readers hoping for a complete chronological account of the subject's life

Reading tips

  1. Read first the chapters on the mobile surgery vehicles and sight-restoration poverty relief to grasp the book's main thread.
  2. While reading, note her specific methods of raising funds and coordinating resources for future reference.
  3. Read alongside cases from other nonprofit organizations to consider project sustainability.
  4. Reading chapter by chapter is sufficient; after each chapter, pause to sort out key events and人物 relationships.

About the publisher

求真出版社 China · Founded in 2009

Qiuzhen Press is a subsidiary imprint of the China Braille Press. It was established in Beijing in 2009 and is supervised by the China Disabled Persons' Federation. The press mainly publishes cultural and educational books for people with disabilities, while also offering books on rehabilitation and health care, literature and art, and the social sciences to a broader readership. According to the available in-house records, social fiction is one of its common categories, and its representative title, The Light Bearer, is written by Jin Weijin and Cao Zhengli, reflecting the press's orientation toward literary works. Public information is limited, so its series, the scale of its author base, and specific publishing features cannot yet be described in detail; the above account can only be based on the titles recorded in our database.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 作者简介
  3. 序 中国残疾人联合会理事长王新宪
  4. 一 走向世界
  5. 二 童年
  6. 三 追求
  7. 四 成功之路(上)
  8. 五 成功之路(下)
  9. 六 优秀团队
  10. 七 创造幸福
  11. 八 继续教育
  12. 九 盲人之家
  13. 十 扩大就业
  14. 十一 绝处逢生
  15. 十二 优势平台
  16. 十三 真挚友情
  17. 十四 竞选议员
  18. 十五 雪中送炭
  19. 十六 援助盲校
  20. 十七 调查研究
  21. 十八 心系盲童
  22. 十九 盲女复明
  23. 二十 现代助盲
  24. 二十一 资源中心
  25. 二十二 全纳教育
  26. 二十三 现代化工程
  27. 二十四 复明扶贫(上)
  28. 二十五 复明扶贫(中)
  29. 二十六 复明扶贫(下)
  30. 二十七 科技复明
  31. 二十八 夕阳正红(上)
  32. 二十九 夕阳正红(中)
  33. 三十 夕阳正红(下)
  34. 结束语
  35. 后记
  36. 陈梁悦明大事记
  37. 主要参考资料

FAQ

What did the subject Chen Liang Yueming mainly do?
According to the book, she long promoted the education of blind children, the re-education of blind adults, and skills training and employment for blind adults, extending her help to blind people in the mainland and Southeast Asia. She also devoted great effort to raising nearly HK$100 million in Hong Kong to purchase 21 mobile cataract surgery vehicles, providing free operations and sight-restoration poverty relief for blind cataract patients in poor mountainous areas of the mainland.
Is this a complete personal life biography?
From the materials, the book takes the subject's contributions to public welfare for the blind as its main thread, focusing on blind children's education, re-education, skills training, employment, and sight-restoration poverty relief, rather than laying out her entire life chronologically. Readers should approach it as a biography of public welfare work.
What can ordinary readers gain from it?
They can learn how a public welfare project moves from identifying needs to raising resources and executing the project, especially the specific practices of mobile surgery vehicles and sight-restoration poverty relief. For those concerned with charitable practice, the practical experience offered in the book is more valuable for reference than mere accounts of deeds.

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About the author

金惟瑾 Author

Jin Weijin is an author about whom limited public information is available. The existing catalogue lists two works under this name: Wind of Hometown and The Light Bearer. Judging from their common categories, the writing spans both personal essays and miscellaneous prose on the one hand and social fiction on the other, suggesting a fairly wide range of subject matter. To go by its title alone, Wind of Hometown has the flavour of prose that looks back on one's native place and recalls hometown ties, whereas The Light Bearer seems more likely to develop its narrative and characters against a social backdrop. Because the author's biography, nationality and dates of birth and death cannot be confirmed, it is at present difficult to sketch either a life story or a full picture of the writing; only the titles and categories of these two works offer a rough sense that the author moves between lyrical prose and fiction with social themes. Readers who wish to learn more about the style and outlook of the writing will still need to read the works themselves and consult further public sources.

曹正礼 Author

Publicly available information about Cao Zhengli is very limited: his biography, nationality, and dates of birth and death have not been clearly recorded. According to the information currently held, only one work by Cao Zhengli is included, the social novel The Light Bearer, so any understanding of this author must rest mainly on this single work. Judging by its common classification, The Light Bearer is a social novel, suggesting that its subject matter probably revolves around social reality and the fate of individuals, focusing on how ordinary people cope with and make choices amid changing circumstances. Writing of this kind often takes real life as its backdrop, using characters' experiences to reflect the social landscape and valuing the natural flow of plot and emotion rather than relying on bizarre premises. Because more biographical material is lacking, it is difficult to judge Cao Zhengli's overall creative trajectory or stylistic development, or to confirm whether he has other pen names or scattered pieces. For readers who wish to know this author, the most reliable approach at present is to read The Light Bearer itself and sense its narrative orientation and concerns from the text.

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