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NATIONAL CONCERT AND ARTISTS CORPORATION
711 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK 22, N.Y.
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BIOGRAPHY - LEE YA-CHING
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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 throughout the United States, Canada, South America, and Mexico 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 close followers of Sun Yat-Son, the founder of the Republic of China. They actively supported the revolution which established China as a great republic in 1911. Miss Lee was educated in China and England and has traveled extensively in France, Italy, Switzerland, Russia and the two Americas.
It was in Switzerland that Miss Lee started to study 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 was the only woman ever to graduate from that school. On a training flight during that time, she fell out of a 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 Chinese youth 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 hospital and emergency relief 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