Background
Dr. T. D. Lee was born in 1898 in Fatshan, Kwangtung, China.
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Dr. T. D. Lee was born in 1898 in Fatshan, Kwangtung, China.
T.D. Lee received early education from private tutors in his home town, than went to America for higher education at the age of sixteen.
He graduated from Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, with B.A. degree in 1920. Also he graduated from Northwestern University, School of Medicine, Chicago, with M.D. degree in 1925.
While Dr. Lee serving his internship at George Washington University Hospital at Washington, D. C, he took up postgraduate work in Pathology. When he returned to Canton in 1926, he joined the teaching staff of Kwong Hua Medical College at Canton as professor of-pathology and inernal medicine and as director of the Kwong Hua Hospital clinical laboratory for two years.
He made his second trip to America in 1928 and since then has been practising medicine and surgery in Portland, Oregon. T.D. Lee was interested in various civic and patriotic activities of the local Chinese community. He held the position of clinical instructor in Oregon University Medical School, being the first and only Chinese who ever held such a position in the said university.
Also he was a member of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association of Portland, his wit and humor attract large audiences to his lectures in America, especially on subjects pertaining to the SinoJapanese controversy in 1931-1932. Mr. Lee organized with other Chinese leaders of Portland the Portland Chinese Patriotic Society and the Chinese Aeronautic Association and School of America. He was well known in America among both overseas Chinese and Americans, especially along the Pacific coast.