Background
He was native of Kwangtung and born in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States in 1884.
He was native of Kwangtung and born in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States in 1884.
Ching-mo Li studied at Oahu College in Honolulu in 1898-1902 and at St. John's University in Shanghai, China in 1902-1907, where he graduated in medicine.
Then he went to the United States in June 1907 and for two years, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was awarded the Frederick Packard prize for proficiency in clinical medicine and graduated with Doctor of Medicine in 1909. Then Mr. Li returned to China in August 1909 and joined the University Medical School at Canton, where he remained until 1913.
He was physician-in-charge of the Hunan Red Cross Hospital in 1913-1914, visited America in 1915 and studied at the Philadelphia Polyclinic Hospital and College for Graduates of Medicine in ophthalmology in 1915.
Ching-mo Li worked under Prof, de Schwenitz of the University of Pennsylvania for a year. Then he returned to China in 1916 and became a member of the Red Cross Hospital of Shanghai for a brief period of time. Mr. Li joined the Peking Union Medical College, where he was connected with the Eye Department until the spring of 1927 when he was appointed visiting professor of ophthalmology to the St. John's Medical School for one year.
In 1922-1923, he did research and postgraduate work in Boston and in New York. Since 1927 he had been practising in Shanghai, limiting his practice to ophthalmology.
