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Wu Sing-yung Wu Sing-yung（Chinese： 吴兴镛； 1939 - ）was a Chinese-born medical professor in addition to being a modern Chinese historian. Born in Sichuan, Wu earned a bachelor degree from Taiwan University in Taipei, a Ph.D.，University of Washington in Seattle and a M.D.，Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. After completing his post-graduate medical education in Universities of Chicago, Washington (Seattle) and California (UCLA), he finally settled down at University of California, Irvine and was promoted to full professor in Radiological Sciences and Medicine in 1990. His research and clinical interest was in thyroid hormone metabolism and the management of thyroid diseases. He has been the author, editor and contributor to several medical books and over a hundred peer-reviewed medical papers. Dr. Wu has had a long-term interest in the research on the development of a novel fetal thyroid function marker (W-compound) that may help to better management of congenital hypothyroidism, the most common neonatal metabolic disorder that can result in severe brain developmental impairment if untreated. <ref> Wu SY, Green WL, Huang WS, Hays MT, Chopra IJ, (2005). “Alternate pathways of thyroid hormone metabolism”. Thyroid 15:945-960. In addition to medical studies, Dr. Wu has a strong interest in modern Chinese history. He has been the author and editor in five books (in Chinese) about the facts involving the “secret gold shipments” from Shanghai to Taiwan in 1948 – 49 near the end of Civil War. The events surrounding the gold transfer to Taiwan were of critical importance on the Republic of China’s retreat to Taiwan and had lasting impact on today’s impasse of Taiwan Strait. According to Dr. Wu’s studies, there were about 4 million oz. gold plus near one hundred million pieces of silver dollars were transferred out from Shanghai’s state treasury vault in multiple shipments by air and sea to Taiwan and Xiamen from Dec. 1 1948 to May 18, 1949. <ref> Wu Sing-yung 吴兴镛；《黄金秘档，1949大陆黄金运台始末》（Gold File, Transfer of Nationalist China’s Gold Reserve from Shanghai to Taiwan in 1949）, Elite Publication Co. Taipei. (2009). Nearly all the silver dollars and one million oz of gold in Xiamen were used to support the Nationalist army in resisting the rapid advancing People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from April to December 1949 when the monstrous inflation flooded the area under the Nationalist control and rendered the paper money worthless. The rest of gold, near 3 million oz., played an pivotal role in stabilizing the economy of the Nationalist regime (Republic of China) in Taiwan from 1949 to 1950 until the outbreak of Korean War on June 25, 1950. <ref> 《The Korean War – A History》Bruce Cumings, Modern Library Paperback Edition, 2011, p. 141-5.. Without the gold from the Chinese Mainland, Taiwan would certainly have been overrun by the financial tsunami of currency devaluation. The internal turmoil in Taiwan before the Korean War would have invited an invasion of PLA across the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan might have been liberated and unified by the People’s Republic of China in 1950 -51. The major portion of the gold (80% or 6.28 million oz.) was from the United State during and after the WWII as part of US aid to China to fight the inflation. <ref> The China White Paper 1949，Department of State Publication 3573, Far Eastern Series 30, Volume I, pp 31-33.

Selected books written and edited by Wu

• 《Thyroid Hormone Metabolism: Regulation and Clinical Implications, in Contemporary Endocrine Series》（Editor）, Blackwell Scientific Publication, Cambridge, MA. (1991) ISBN 0-86542-129-3
• 《Thyroid Hormone Metabolism: Molecular Biology and Alternate Pathways》(Editor), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 1994. ISBN 0-8493-4774-2
• 《黄金档案，国府黄金运台 – 1949》（Gold File, Transfer of Nationalist China’s Gold Reserve from Shanghai to Taiwan in 1949） (author, in Traditional Chinese) , Elite Publ Co. Taipei. (2007) ISBN 978-986-7762-94-8
• 《黄金秘档，1949大陆黄金运台始末》（Gold File, Transfer of Nationalist China’s Gold Reserve from Shanghai to Taiwan in 1949） (author, in Simplified Chinese) , Jiangsu People’s Publishing House, Nanjing (2009) ISBN 978-7-214-06078-5
• 《黄金往事, 一九四九民国人与内战黄金终结篇》（The Gold Story, 1949 the Repubic Generation and the Final Chapter on the Gold Reserve During the Civil War）(author, in Traditional Chinese) , Times’ Cultural Publ. Co. Taipei. ( 2013), ISBN 978-957-13-5846-8
• 《吴嵩庆日记（一）1947 – 1950》（The Diaries of Samuel Sung Ching Wu, Vol. 1, 1947-1950）（editor in Traditional Chinese）Academic Sinica, Taipei. (2016)

 ISBN 978-986-04-8832-6

• 《吴嵩庆战时军费日记 (1948 – 1950) 》（The Wartime Diaries of General Samuel Sung Ching Wu on the gold military expenditure in Nationalist Army）, China Social Science Press, Beijing, China（2019）. ISBN 978-7-5203-4412-8