Background
He was born in Canton, Kwangtung, China in 1893.
He was born in Canton, Kwangtung, China in 1893.
He received his early education in the preparatory department of the Lingnan University in Canton, China. After two years of collegiate training, he proceeded to the United States and entered the Evans' Dental School of the University of Pennsylvania for training in dentistry, receiving the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the said institution in 1919.
Upon his return from America, Ti-chih Liu started his practice and was for more than four years the only dentist to Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Then he was practising in his father's former office in Canton. His chief hobby was pictorial photography for which he is well-known.