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Sisters of Heaven: China's Barnstorming Aviatrixes Modernity, Feminism, & Popular Imagination in Asia & the West Book

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  • Sisters of Heaven: China's Barnstorming Aviatrixes Modernity, Feminism, and Popular Imagination in Asia and the West
  • Written by author Patti Gully
  • Published by LONG RIVER PRESS, January 30, 2008
  • In the late 1930s, as the world moved closer to war, three vivacious Chinese women defied gender perceptions by becoming pilots. Driven by a fierce independent spirit, they realized their dream of flying, completed barnstorming goodwill missions across th
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Acknowledgments     ix
List of Illustrations
(Part I) Hilda Yan: Life of the Heart     xiii
(Part II) Li Xiaqing: Profile of a Legend     xv
(Part III) Zheng Hanying: Uneasy Spirit     xvii
List of Maps     xix
Introduction     1
Hilda Yan: Life of The Heart
Prologue     10
Liberal Strains     11
Life under the Soviet Star     24
Sexual Slavery & the League of Nations     35
A War of Resistance     43
Aid to China     54
May Day     62
American Bureau for Medical Aid to China     71
Return to the Far East     77
"Coming of Age of the Entire Human Race"     84
John Gifford Male 127     90
Endings     99
Epilogue     102
Li Xiaqing: Profile of A Legend
Introduction     116
Revolutionary to the Core     117
Star of the Silver Screen     126
"Isn't flying the top of everything?"     136
Return to China     144
Return to the New World     161
Flying Down to Rio 233     177
Relief Wings & United China Relief     183
SouthAmerica Reprised     197
Blue Skies     201
Zheng Hanying: Uneasy Spirit
Introduction     228
Origins     229
Wings for China     236
Romance... and Unforeseen Consequences     257
Zheng Takes Vancouver     264
Commissioning     273
Crossing Canada     285
Gathering Shadows     297
Postscript     301
Appendix
Hilda Yan's Participation in the League of Nations, as Documented in the Minutes of the Meetings     313
First Committee (5th Meeting), September 19, 1935
Fifth Committee (4th Meeting), September 18, 1937
Fifth Committee (8th Meeting), September 25, 1937
Minxin Films of Li Dandan (Li Xiaqing)     317
Glossary     319
Chronology     325
Endnotes     335
Bibliography     375
Index     385


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