Li Yuin Tsao Explained

Li Yuin Tsao
Birth Date:1886
Birth Place:Suzhou
Death Date:August 14, 1922
Death Place:Tianjin
Occupation:Physician

Li Yuin Tsao (1886 – August 14, 1922), also seen as Tsao Liyuin, was a Chinese medical doctor.

Early life

Tsao 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,[5] where she was vice-president of the class of 1911. 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

Tsao was an intern under Bertha Van Hoosen at Chicago's Mary Thompson Hospital,[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, and they worked together again at Peiyang Woman's Hospital.[13]

Personal life

After 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).

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Notes and References

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  2. 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.
  3. Book: Scalpel: The 1911 yearbook of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. 1911. Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Archives and Special Collections Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center. 73. Internet Archive.
  4. News: 1907-05-23. Chinese Girl to be Graduated. 5. Messenger-Inquirer. 2020-10-03. Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1908-02-13. Women of All Nations Studying Medicine. 6. The Wahpeton Times. 2020-10-03. Newspapers.com.
  6. News: 1908-08-22. Minister Wu Speaks. 3. The Boston Globe. 2020-10-03. Newspapers.com.
  7. News: 1911-06-06. First Chinese Woman Student to Graduate. 2. The Buffalo Commercial. 2020-10-03. Newspapers.com.
  8. Web site: Zielin. Laura. Spring 2018. Petticoat Junction. 2020-10-03. Medicine at Michigan.
  9. Book: Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun . Judy Tzu-Chun Wu . Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity . 2005-02-28 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-93892-2 . 57–58 . en.
  10. News: 1912-06-13. Chinese Woman Studies Surgery. 5. The Morning Post. 2020-10-03. Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1912-06-07. Chinese Woman Surgeon Studies Here to Help Progress in Orient. 17. The Morning Call. 2020-10-03. Newspapers.com.
  12. Book: McLean, Mary H.. Dr. Li Yuin Tsao: Called and Chosen and Faithful. 1925. St. Louis, Mo.: M. H. McLean. Internet Archive.
  13. Web site: Me-Iung Ting x1916. 2020-10-03. A Postcard Collection of Mount Holyoke College.
  14. Book: Ward. David. Chen. Eugene. 2017. The University of Michigan in China. Maize Books. en. 10.3998/mpub.9885197. 9781607854272. free.