The above section illustrated how Chinese doctors adapt to changes in the socio-political arena by their choices of language of publication of their flagship general medicine journals. The Chinese Medical Journal, as the only English medical journal published in mainland China for many years, provided a showcase of Chinese medical achievement to the world and a channel of communication between Chinese doctors and their colleagues aboard. The Journal of the Formosan Medical Association demonstrated the process of colonisation, decolonisation and internationalisation in its switch of language from Japanese to Chinese and then to English. The Hong Kong Medical Journal is an example of how a colonial legacy has left a language heritage that fosters internationalisation in this globalising world.