Lee Sun Chau married Po Yin Chan (陳步賢) (1883-1965) in
Hong Kong on Jan. 7, 1911. Po-Yin Chan was an engineer and a revolutionary under
Sun Yat-sen (孫中山) in the
1911 Revolution, and was a Senator of
Guangzhou in the 1920s. His poem (铁血战残清，言文新里怜，事成操故业，敝屣视功名。) describes the bloody fight against the Qing Dynasty, the new society resulting from the Revolution, his return to his profession afterward, and his not caring about fame.
Grandfathers Lee Sun Chau was a granddaughter (father's side) of Rev. Hok Shu Chau 周學舒 [or 周學, or 周勵堂] (spelled
Zhou Xue in Mandarin) (1826-1918), the first ordained Chinese minister of the Methodist Church 循道會 (衛斯理會) in Southern China. Rev. Chau pastored the Methodist Church in
Guangzhou,
China, in 1877-1916. Prior to being ordained, he conducted evangelical work in the clinic of Dr.
Benjamin Dobson. In 1852, Rev. Chau was baptized by Rev.
Liang Fa 梁發 (1789-1855), the very first Chinese pastor in the world. Rev.
Liang Fa was ordained by Dr.
Robert Morrison (1782-1834), a missionary of the
London Missionary Society who translated the whole Bible to Chinese. Lee Sun Chau was also a granddaughter (mother's side) of Rev. Wei Tsing Wan (尹維清), who was ordained by the
London Missionary Society in China.
Uncle Lee Sun Chau was a niece of Man-Kai Wan (尹文階)(1869-1927), who was a younger brother of her mother, a son of Rev. Wei Tsing Wan (尹維清) and a son-in-law of To Tsai Church (道濟會堂) Elder
Au Fung-Chi (區鳳墀)(1847-1914). Au was the Chinese language teacher of
Sun Yat-sen (孫中山). Man-Kai Wan was one of the first Chinese doctors of Western Medicine in Hong Kong. In 1920-1922, he served as the inaugural Chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Medical Association 香港中華醫學會 (currently
Hong Kong Medical Association 香港醫學會). In 1922, he served as the Chairman of the
Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong (香港中華基督教青年會). He was one of the founders of the
Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital. He was also a secondary school classmate of
Sun Yat-sen in The Government Central College (中央書院, currently
Queen's College, Hong Kong, 皇仁書院) in
Hong Kong. Wan and Sun graduated from secondary school together in 1886. In 1893, they started a medical clinic (東西藥局) together. Wan also protected Sun during Sun's long and dangerous preparation for the
1911 Chinese Revolution. Man-Kai Wan was also the Chairman of the Board of a Christian newspaper called “Great Light Newspaper” (大光報) that was distributed in Hong Kong and China. In 1912, Sun wrote for the newspaper four words “與國同春”, meaning springtime along with the Nation.
Daughter Lee Sun Chau's second child, daughter
Rebecca Chan Chung (鍾陳可慰) (1920-2011), Rebecca Chan Chung's autobiography, Piloted to Serve (飛虎戰, 駝峰險, 亂世情), provides details on Lee Sun Chau.
Granddaughter Lee Sun Chau's granddaughter (the second child of Rebecca Chan Chung)
Deborah Chung (鍾端玲) dedicated her book
Carbon Fiber Composites (1994) to the memory of Lee Sun Chau.
Deborah Chung is an American scientist, university professor and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected in 2023). She is best known for her invention of smart concrete. She is ranked by the 2022 Stanford University study to be 13th among 315,721 materials scientists in the world (living and deceased), 10th among those that are living, and 1st among those that are female. ==References==