(蔡阿信醫師Dr Tsai A-Hsin, 1899 - 1990)蔡阿信Tsai A-Hsin was a precocious child who grew up to be the symbol of high achievement of Taiwanese women. After graduating at age 18 from Danshui Girls' High School, she went on to study medicine at Tokyo Women's Medical School in Japan. Danshui Girls' High School 淡水女學校 was founded by Dr George Leslie Mackay in 1884, later to become Danshui Girls' Academy 淡水女學堂. Only 45 graduated from the Academy and Dr Tsai was one of them. After receiving her medical degree, she came back to Taichung to practice, and became the first female physician (specializing in OB-GYN) of Taiwan. Her hospital had an affiliated midwifery school, in which 30 students were trained every half year. In a short span, 200 to 300 midwives graduated from this school, and practiced all over Taiwan. (Adopted from http://www.tccgc.gov.tw/report/taichung/English/people/people-18.htm)
Danshui is always proud to have hosted Dr Tsai and many of her fellow Danshui Girls' High students, including Pianist 陳信貞女士 (also of Taichung), who came from different parts of Taiwan to study here.
It is interesting to see that Dr. Tsai is Kuu-Gar-Shin 邱雅信in Ton-Hong-Pe’s 東方白Ron-Tao-Sa浪淘沙. She was already a widow when we visited Vancouver for the first time in 1968. That was the only chance we have encountered with her physically in the same city though we have no idea who she was at that time. I still remember well the show on the local TV station years back.
回覆刪除Dr Tsai relocated to Vancouver in 1953. Her story is common to many Taiwanese who spoke Taiwanese, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and English, not necessarily by choice.
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