Parks Canada is planning to celebrate staunch Canadian communist Dr. Norman Bethune by introducing programs to draw more Chinese visitors to the Bethune Memorial House National Historic Site in Gravenhurst, Ont., where Bethune was born. Specifically, the federal agency aims to offer the public “a much deeper understanding of Bethune’s life and legacy,” according to Parks Canada’s Bethune Memorial House 2020 management plan. The thoracic surgeon’s contributions include medical innovations and his time serving as “a medical adviser to the 8th Route Army of China’s communist leader Mao Zedong in 1938–39 during the Second Sino-Japanese War,” stated a 2018 Parks Canada news release to recognize Bethune’s national historic significance. Bethune, who is revered in China, was the first to introduce the mobile blood bank to the battlefront, where he performed blood transfusions in the midst of the fighting. After visiting the Soviet Union in 1935, he joined the Communist Party of …