Prof. Rosie Young: Trailblazing Medicine in Hong Kong

The photo was actually taken in 2017 when the Faculty of Medicine celebrated her 130th anniversary.

Now, you all remember that the University of Hong Kong was founded in 1912.

But the precursor of the University of Hong Kong is called the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, and it was founded in 1887.

And one of our most distinguished graduates was Dr.

Sun Yat-sen.

He was one of the two graduates of the first batch of branches.

So in 2017, we celebrated our 130th anniversary, and the photograph shows the passing of the torch.

I think it's very important that we have to pass the torch from one generation to another.

We also expect that each generation will be better than the previous one, no matter how distinguished the previous one might be.

The celebration dinner was held at the convention centre, And it was a big gathering of thousands of people there.

It was a very enjoyable evening.

Right.

Thank you for sharing.

That's a really cool story.

And speaking of stories, I'd like to talk more about your upbringing.

And so in the biography, it says that you grew up in a family of scholars.

And I wanted to ask you more about that and how that felt.

Well, my parents came from a place called in Zhongshan.

And their ancestors were not merchants.

And one of my uncles was a so-called scholar in China by examination.

So my father went there to study.

In those days, it was a private school.

And believe it or not, in those days, usually the females would not be able to go to school, would be illiterate.

But my mother, my maternal grandfather was very... open and he sent my mother to go to the same college, to a private college to study the Chinese characters.

So my mother could write and read and read newspaper and so on.