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It gives me a great deal of pleasure to appear before you this morning. First of all, I wish to express my gratitude to our American friends for their cooperation and courtesies extended to me since I undertook this tour. Were it not for the assistance they so generously gave me, my task would have been much more difficult. I know they are giving this assistance not only because of their personal friendship for me but more because of their warm interest in my country for which we are ever grateful.
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The subject assigned to me for my talk is "Woman Movement and Aviation". I have been searching for material to make my talk worth-while, but curiously enough there is not much data available on the subject. It seems extremely difficult for me to occupy these thirty minutes. However, I wish to talk first of all on the status of women in China.
There is a good deal of confusion and misconception of the place occupied by women in Chinese society. It is a mistake to regard that woman was in an inferior place. Dr. Hu Shih, our Ambassador and Father of the Chinese Renaissance, has amusingly pointed out that their position was never so low as many superficial observers would have us believe. On the contrary, the woman has always been the despot of the family. The authority of the mother or mother-in-law is well-known. Even the wife is the terror of the husband, and there is no country in the world which can compete with China for the distinction of being a nation of hen-pecked husbands. Certainly no other country has produced more stories or jokes on this subject. To prove my point, I should like to give you this