Lee Sun Chau

Lee Sun Chau (周理信, i.e., 周六姑, 1890-1979) was one of the first female Chinese doctors of Western Medicine in China.

[1][2][3][4] In the late 1910s she graduated from Hackett Medical College for Women (夏葛女子醫學院),[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] and she then worked as a staff physician at the David Gregg Hospital for Women and Children (also known as Yuji Hospital 柔濟醫院, currently 广州医学院第三附属医院)[13][14][15][16][17] located on Duo Bao Road (多寶路), 广州市荔湾区 Guangzhou, China.

It shows Lee Sun Chau (seated) and her classmate Yuen Hing WONG (黃婉卿) (standing).

[25][26] Due to the Warlord Era in China, Lee Sun Chau moved from Guangzhou to Hong Kong in late 1920.

[28] Po-Yin Chan was an engineer and a revolutionary under Sun Yat-sen (孫中山) in the Chinese Revolution of 1911, and was a Senator of Guangzhou in the 1920s.

His poem (铁血战残清，言文新里怜，事成操故业，敝屣视功名。) describes the bloody fight against the Qing Dynasty, the new society resulting from the Revolution, his return to his profession afterward, and his not caring about fame.

Hok Shu Chau 周學舒 [or 周學, or 周勵堂] (spelled Zhou Xue in Mandarin) (1826-1918), the first ordained Chinese minister of the Methodist Church 循道會 (衛斯理會) in Southern China[31] Rev.

[34][35] Lee Sun Chau was a niece of Man-Kai Wan (尹文階)(1869-1927), who was a younger brother of her mother, a son of Rev.

Wei Tsing Wan (尹維清) and a son-in-law of To Tsai Church (道濟會堂) Elder Au Fung-Chi (區鳳墀)(1847-1914).

[47] Lee Sun Chau's brother-in-law (husband of her sister 周瑞莲, 1881-19xx, who was the eldest child of her parents) Hongkui Wong 黄康衢 (1876-1961) moved to Singapore to practice medicine after graduation from the Hong Kong Western Medical College 香港西醫書院 (same college attended by Sun Yat-Sen) in 1900.

In 1900, Sun's Japanese friend Tōten Miyazaki 宮崎寅藏 (1871-1922, a Japanese person who supported the 1911 Chinese Revolution) came to Singapore to visit Kang Youwei 康有為 (1858-1927, the leader of the Reform Movement 維新變法派 in the late Qing Dynasty), who was living at the time in the home of Shuyuan Qiu 邱菽园 (1873-1941, rich overseas Chinese businessman).

[35] Lee Sun Chau's second child, daughter Rebecca Chan Chung (鍾陳可慰) (1920-2011),[27] was a United States World War II veteran (Nurse) with the Flying Tigers and then the United States Army in Kunming, China, where she worked under Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Fred Manget.

[20][49] Rebecca Chan Chung's autobiography, Piloted to Serve (飛虎戰, 駝峰險, 亂世情), provides details on Lee Sun Chau.