Portrait of Xia Shaoting
Republican Period
160×66cm.Xia Shaoting (1871-1936),commonly known as Yingtang,was a native of Jiangdu County,Jiangsu Province,and a resident of Shanghai.He was a cofounder of the Shanghai Professional School of TCM(see Fig. 510).In 1908,at the invitation of the League of Revolutionary Union (Tongmenghui),he visitted its headquarters in Japan to plan the Revolution in Shanghai.(By courtesy of Xia Shiyin;collection of Museum for History of Medicine,Shanghai University of TCM)