Li Yuin Tsao (1886 – August 14, 1922), also seen as Tsao Liyuin, was a Chinese medical doctor.
Li Yuin Tsao | |
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 Li Yuin Tsao in the 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. | |
| Born | 1886 Suzhou |
| Died | August 14, 1922 Tianjin |
| Occupation | Physician |
Early life
editTsao was from Suzhou, the daughter of Tse-Zeh Tsao (Cao Zishi, 1847-1902), a Methodist minister who was partly educated in the United States.[1] She attended the McTyeire School in Shanghai and a missionary girls' school in Nagasaki.[2][3]
Tsao was a teacher before she received a scholarship from medical missionary Mary Hancock McLean to attend college in the United States in 1905. After two years of preparation at a women's college in St. Louis,[4] she was a medical student at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania,[2][5] where she was vice-president of the class of 1911.[3] In 1908, she attended the Conference of Chinese Students in Boston, and heard Wu Tingfang speak.[6]
Her sister Faung (Fanny) Yuin Tsao attended Wellesley College and Teachers College, Columbia University; one of her brothers attended Yale University.[7]
Career
editTsao was an intern under Bertha Van Hoosen at Chicago's Mary Thompson Hospital,[2][8] and her success there opened the door to other Chinese and Chinese-American women physicians, including Margaret Chung.[9]
Tsao returned to China after internships in Chicago and St. Louis,[10][11] then in 1912 took an appointment at a Quaker-sponsored hospital in Nanjing, where she remained until 1918. While in Nanjing, she was also involved with the Union Training School for Nurses, taught at Ginling College for Women, and gave public lectures on health topics. She moved to Tianjin to work at the Peiyang Woman's Hospital. While there, she was active in the city's YWCA program, as president of its board of directors.[12]
Me-Iung Ting was Tsao's assistant and successor at Nanjing,[12] and they worked together again at Peiyang Woman's Hospital.[13]
Personal life
editAfter Li Yuin Tsao's death in 1922, from a cerebral hemorrhage.[14] Mary Hancock McLean wrote a short biography, Dr. Li Yuin Tsao: Called and Chosen and Faithful (1925).[12]
References
edit- ^ Zhao, Xiaojian; Ph.D, Edward J. W. Park (2013-11-26). Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History [3 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History. ABC-CLIO. pp. 176–178. ISBN 978-1-59884-240-1.
- ^ a b c Pripas-Kapit, Sarah. "Piety, Professionalism and Power: Chinese Protestant Missionary Physicians and Imperial Affiliations between Women in the Early Twentieth Century" Gender & History, 27 (August 2015): 349–373.
- ^ a b Scalpel: The 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Archives and Special Collections Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center. Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. 1911. p. 73 – via Internet Archive.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Chinese Girl to be Graduated". Messenger-Inquirer. 1907-05-23. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Women of All Nations Studying Medicine". The Wahpeton Times. 1908-02-13. p. 6. Retrieved 2020-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Minister Wu Speaks". The Boston Globe. 1908-08-22. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "First Chinese Woman Student to Graduate". The Buffalo Commercial. 1911-06-06. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Zielin, Laura (Spring 2018). "Petticoat Junction". Medicine at Michigan. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ^ Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun (2005-02-28). Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity. University of California Press. pp. 57–58. ISBN 978-0-520-93892-2.
- ^ "Chinese Woman Studies Surgery". The Morning Post. 1912-06-13. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Chinese Woman Surgeon Studies Here to Help Progress in Orient". The Morning Call. 1912-06-07. p. 17. Retrieved 2020-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c McLean, Mary H. (1925). Dr. Li Yuin Tsao: Called and Chosen and Faithful. St. Louis, Mo.: M. H. McLean – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Me-Iung Ting x1916". A Postcard Collection of Mount Holyoke College. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ^ Ward, David; Chen, Eugene (2017). The University of Michigan in China. Maize Books. doi:10.3998/mpub.9885197. ISBN 9781607854272.
External links
edit- Sarah Pripas, "The International History of Women's Medical Education: What Does Imperialism Have To Do With It?" Nursing Clio (June 16, 2015). A blogpost about Tsao and other women physicians.
