page_title: Tang Feifan
section_title: Second Sino-Japanese War
hierarchical_section_title: Tang Feifan / Biography / Second Sino-Japanese War
caption_attribution_description: English: In 1944, Tang Fei-fan was talking with British sinologist Joseph Needham in the lawn, in Central Epidemic Prevention Department. 中文: 1944年，中央防疫处主任汤飞凡和英国汉学家李约瑟交谈。
context_page_description: Tang Feifan was a Chinese medical microbiologist best known for culturing the Chlamydia trachomatis agent in the yolk sacs of eggs.
  Tang was persecuted during the "Pulling Out Bourgeois White Flag Movement" and committed suicide in 1958.
context_section_description: After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938, he founded the Central Epidemic Prevention Laboratory in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan province, and served as its director. He made China's first batch of penicillin and serum with his team for the soldiers at the front. After war he established China's first antibiotic research and penicillin production workshop, as well as normal BCG vaccine laboratory.
  In 1947 he paid a fact-finding visit to the United Kingdom, attended the 4th World Conference of International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) in the Kingdom of Denmark, and became its standing committee.
caption: Tang Feifan and Joseph Needham in 1944 in Kunming, Yunnan.
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