Liu Jian Qiu

Description

Alternate spellings found in primary source documents: Liu Gien-tsiu (Gien-chiu)

(1897-1977)
Liu was from Xuzhou (Tsüchow), Jiangsu (Kiangsu). She studied at the University of Michigan from 1919-1924 to get her M.D. after receiving the Barbour Scholarship. She came back to Ginling after practicing medicine in Shanghai to be a college physician and general manager of a summer school on Ginling's campus in 1927. She was also involved in Ginling’s Board of Control. In 1928, she was a doctor at what was then known as Tinghai Hospital in Dinghai (Tinghai), Zhejiang (Chekiang). She then moved to Hangzhao (Hangchow) to work as a doctor at the then Hangchow Mission Hospital in 1929. She ended up with a longer position at Concord Women’s Hospital in Shanghai in the 1930s and 40s.

Source

Photograph: Ginling College Magazine June 1928, Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, Group 11, Box 151, Folder 2950, Yale Divinity Library, http://divinity-adhoc.library.yale.edu/UnitedBoard/Ginling_College/Box%20151/RG011-151-2950.pdf.