Hü King Eng

Hü King Eng (Chinese: 許金訇; pinyin: Xǔ Jīnhōng, Foochow Romanized: Hṳ̄ Gĭnghŏng) was a physician, and the second ethnic Chinese woman to attend university in the United States, after King You Mé.

[3] Hü's mother joined her husband in spreading the gospel and travelled with him to various impoverished areas near Fuzhou.

"[6] Hü attended the Fuzhou Boarding School for Girls, which was run under the auspices of Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

[7] On arrival in the United States, Hü could not speak English and she spent the summer before college learning intensively with Sarah Moore.

After two years, Hü fell ill and took a break from study to visit her family in China, with a trip to Japan on the way there.

[12] Hü returned to Fuzhou in 1895 and began work at the Foochow Hospital for Women and Children.

After one year, the supervising doctor returned to the United States and Hü was put in charge of the entire hospital.

[18] In 1906, Hü opened the course taught at the Woolston Memorial Hospital to any female who could pass a certain exam.

[22] Hü is recorded as having been very popular with her teachers and classmates at college and some of her literary writings are preserved.

Two oranges find on this plate of thine.Hü adopted a son and a daughter from the local community when she was working at the Woolston Memorial Hospital.

Gurubai Karmarkar , Hü, and Mary H. Platt, members of the Class of 1892 at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania