Dr Ho talks on his latest book on Chinese women pioneers in the country

Story on courage: Dr Ho with his latest book ‘Phoenix Rising, Pioneering Chinese Women of Malaysia’.

GENERAL practitioner and author Dr Ho Tak Ming is back with his fifth book titled “Phoenix Rising, Pioneering Chinese Women of Malaysia”.

A labour of love entailing five years of research and writing in between seeing patients at his polyclinic in Ipoh, it is the story of Chinese women who immigrated to this country from the 19th century onwards and forged independent lives different from that previously in China.