Background
Mr. Chuan was born in Wanping, Zhili, China in 1884.
Mr. Chuan was born in Wanping, Zhili, China in 1884.
Chuan Shao-ching studied medicine at the Beiyang (Peiyang) medical college, Tianjin (Tientsin), and graduated in 1904. He went to America and attended Johns Hopkins University in 1912 and the sanitary school at Harvard University, 1913.
Mr. Chuan was attached to the Chinese Imperial Mission to Tibet as a doctor in 1905. Later he accompanied the same mission to India. Chuan Shao-ching served as a professor of anatomy and medicine at the Beiyang (Peiyang) Medical College between 1906 and 1910 and played prominent part in the campaign against the plague in Manchuria in 1911.
He attended as Chinese delegate the Congress of International Red Cross in 1912 and the International Congress of Medicine in London, 1913. Mr. Chuan resumed his former post as professor of medicine at the Beiyang (Peiyang) Medical College after return from England. Chuan Shao-ching held the post of a surgeon-general of the Chinese army and director of the army medical college since 1914.
From 1917 Mr. Chuan worked as a counsellor to the Ministry of War and secretary to Tuan Chijui during Chang Hsun's monarchial movement. He went to Suiyuan to suppress the plague in 1918. In 1921 Chuan Shao-ching attended as Chinese delegate the International Congress of Medicine and Pharmacy held at Brussels, Belgium. From 1922 Mr. Chuan became a vice-Minister of Education. He served as a chief of the metropolitan plague prevention service from 1922 to 1923.
Chuan Shao-ching resumed his office as a chief of the bureau of public health of Tsingtao in 1924. He was appointed director of the Chinese Red Cross Hospital at Beijing (Peking) in 1926. Since 1929 Mr. Chuan took up the post of a chief of the bureau of public health of Tianjin (Tientsin). He also was a Superintendent of Beijing (Peking) Red Cross Hospital and Sanitarium.