The Letter from Canton
The temple had no head. The Buddha's head had been missing since the Japanese bombed Chongqing in the spring of 1938, and no one had replaced it. Edmund Ashby didn't mind. The empty space above the altar gave the field hospital an atmosphere of stark honesty that he found preferable to the comforting fictions of intact statuary. Dr. Lin Meiling stood beside him on their first day, watching him...
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