Lee Ya-Ching

              LEE YA CHING
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LECTURES BY LEE YA-CHING
CHINA GETS ITS WINGS...Unlike England and America, China has skipped the motor age and leaped straight into the age of flight. Overnight, the airplane has become China's chief means of transportation. The part it plays in the development of China and its people is interpreted by one of China's most progressive young women.

WOMEN OF CHINA...The future of China is closely related to the emancipation of its women. The lovely Miss Lee in herself represents the New China in combining feminine charm with unique achievement. She gives an engrossing picture of Chinese women from the past to the present day.

CHINA AT WAR...The story of a gallant, courageous nation meeting the challenges of invasion. Engaged in the prodigious task of reconstruction amid the havoc of war's destruction, China plans for the future while fighting for its life.
LEE YA-CHING
Miss Lee Ya Ching is a charming beauty with a personality that has won thousands of friends for herself and her country. Known as "China's First Lady of the Air," she has flown over 50,000 miles to major cities of the United States and Canada in behalf of her besieged people. She has worked actively with China Relief since its inception.

Lee Ya Ching combines all that is best in emancipated Chinese womanhood. She has an heritage of foresighted liberalism. Her parents and paternal grandmother were followers of Sun Yat Sen and actively supported the revolution which established China as a great republic. Miss Lee was educated in China and England, has traveled in France, Italy, Switzerland,. Russia and America. It was in Switzerland that Miss Lee studied flying and she was the first woman of any nation to receive a pilot's license in Geneva. She took advanced training at the famous Boeing School of Aeronautics in California and is the only woman ever to graduate from that school. On a training flight during that time, she fell out of her plane and parachuted into San Francisco Bay, thus earning membership in the caterpillar Club.

In 1936, Miss Lee returned to China and became that country's first aviatrix when she was honored with a Chinese government pilot's license which enabled her to fly a plane throughout China to interest young Chinese in aviation. She was appointed flying instructor at the Shanghai Municipal Air School and later became a co pilot of China's Southwestern Airline. Upon resumption of hostilities between China and Japan in 1937, Lee Ya Ching did emergency relief and hospital work in Shanghai and Canton. During this period she saw the heartbreaking needs of her people and has dedicated her life to the alleviation of those needs.

In 1938, Miss Lee returned to America to begin making her good will flights. Since then she has appeared before a variety of audiences and while in Toronto, was invited to address the Canadian Parliament -  the first woman to be given such an honor. She has just completed an extensive tour of Central and South America.

A young woman of great charm, loveliness and poise, Lee Ya Ching is rendering a great service to both China and the United States by helping to bring these two great nations closer together through mutual understanding.
 COMMENTS ON LEE YA - CHINGH. V. MANZER, WORCESTER LION'S CLUB, WORCESTER, MASS.: It is extremely difficult to write about Miss Lee Ya Ching without seeming to be effusive in our praise of her. She told a moving story of the struggles, sacrifices and needs of the Chinese people and in addition completely captured the hearts of all who were present by her very great charm and gracious bearing. The numerous telephone calls and personal visits which I have received from members, all expressing the highest praise, are evidence of the pleasure her visit gave and the interest in China which it intensified.CHARLES C. HULL, NEW YORK CHAPTER OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BANKING:After last night's meeting, Miss Lee's ears must have burned, there were so many interesting comments made concerning her splendid talk, which we thoroughly enjoyed.RAWSON W. HADDON, MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, WATERBURY, CONNIn addition to the usual thanks we send people who lecture here, I want to send the very special and enthusiastic thanks of the Society and all its members to Miss Lee Ya Ching. I do not remember any time when so many people have gone out of their way to tell me how much they enjoyed a talk. Everybody was most interested in Miss Lee, what she had to say   and the way she said it.
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