Tsang Gi Ni (???), also known as Fichen Ni (???), was a noted Chinese physiologist during the first fifty years of the 20th century.
He was born on August 6, 1891 in Sonlin (??), Chekiang Province (Zhejiang ??), China.
In 1908 he attended Chekiang First High School, which was considered to be one of the four best high schools in the Southern Yangtze River.
Today, it's known as Hangzhou High School (??????).
After his graduation in 1912, T.G.
Ni became one of sixty students in the first class of the Chekiang Medical College (??????????), the first public medical school in China, which is recognized today as part of the Zhejiang University School of Medicine (???????).
He received his bachelor’s in medicine in 1916 and went on to work at the Chekiang Army Hospital (???????) as a Surgeon-Lieutenant.
At the same time, T.G.
Ni had passed the qualifying exam for the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship and initially intended to study in Germany.
However, with the outbreak of World War I, he was reassigned to the United States and ended up at the University of Michigan (?????) in Ann Arbor, Michigan.