Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925): medical doctor and China's founding president

Lee KH, Wong TK, Ng KH

Correspondence: Prof Ng Kwan-Hoong, ngkh@ummc.edu.my

SUMMARY

Sun Yat-sen, founding president of the Republic of China, started his career as a medical doctor. His early years of medical studies and practice helped to shape his political vision of a new China. He studied under two eminent professors from whom he came to understand the value of Western knowledge to the modernisation of China. Indeed, as Wang Gungwu pointed out, Sun was the first to offer a “dedicated political leadership that set China on its own path to modernity”.⁽¹⁾

Singapore Med J 2013; 54(6): 356-358; http://dx.doi.org/10.11622/smedj.2013121

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