Revolutionary

Sun Yat-sen: revolutionary pioneer and founding figure of the Republic of China who once practised medicine in Macau

Sun Yat-sen

A modern Chinese revolutionary and a founding figure of the Republic of China. After graduating from the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese in 1892, he was invited to practise at Kiang Wu Hospital in Macau, regarded as the territory’s first Chinese doctor of Western medicine, and opened a Chinese-Western pharmacy. He later devoted himself to revolution, founding the Revive China Society and the Tongmenghui, and in 1912 became provisional president of the Republic of China. Macau was among the important places of his early medical practice and the stirrings of his revolutionary thought.