Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Shih Tsannyuan

Mr. Tsannyuen Philip Sze

施资元字君異

(Shih Tsan-yuan)

Dr. Philip Sze was born at Soochow, Kiangsu province, in 1838. He studied at Shun-Cheng School in 1900 and at the St. John's University from 1900 to 1904. He went to the United States in October 1904 with partial government support, and prepared for college at Central High School, Washington, from 1904 to 1908. He studied medicine at George Washington University from 1910 and was graduated from it with the degree of M. D. in 1914. He was awarded Ordranaux Prize for highest average in June 1913 and at graduation, 1914; the George Washington University Surgery Prize for best written paper, in June 1914. He was an interne at George Washington University Hospital for one year during 1914-15, and resident physician of the Columbia Hospital for Women, Washington, D. C., during 1915-16. In May 1916 Dr. Sze returned to China and was at once appointed associate college physician of Tsinghua College. In January 1918 he resigned from the Tsinghua post to take up charge of the Central Hospital, Peking, of which his father Mr. Sze Sao-tseng was the managing director. 'In the summer of 1919 he was appointed director of the Chinese Educational Mission to Washington, D. C., to succeed Dr. T. T. Wong who was murdered by a Chinese student. In May 1921 he was appointed a vice-consul in the Chinese Consuate-General at San Francisco. In May 1922 he was awarded the Third Class Chiaho Decoration.