{"id":6521,"date":"2015-07-30T10:57:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T10:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2015-07-30T10:57:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T10:57:56","slug":"oriental-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2015\/07\/oriental-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Oriental Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading about<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_Ya-Ching\"> Lee Ya-Ching<\/a>, who is billed (incorrectly) by Wikipedia as the &#8220;First Chinese civilian aviator.&#8221; In her various tours of North and South America to raise money for the Chinese war effort she of course attracted a lot of attention as a symbol of China. She was&#8230; Well I am not as good as the Miami Daily News at stuffing orientalist tropes into a paragraph, so I will leave it to them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<span style=\"font-family: serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Miss Lee Ya-Ching, restrained, placid and assured as a Chinese goddess posed on a lily pad\u2014hands as sensitive and artful as a fan dancer&#8217;s and a voice poignant with culture and the philosophy of the ages. Yet she is as modern and as American as the latest career deb\u2014and quite as stylish.\u201d <i>Miami Daily News<\/i><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">January 16, 1941<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"sdfootnote-western\">I think that lilly pad was maybe supposed to be a lotus, but they hit pretty much all the notes in here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdfootnote-western\">Among other things, her U.S. tour was something of a dry run for Madame Chiang&#8217;s later visits.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading about Lee Ya-Ching, who is billed (incorrectly) by Wikipedia as the &#8220;First Chinese civilian aviator.&#8221; In her various tours of North and South America to raise money for the Chinese war effort she of course attracted a lot of attention as a symbol of China. She was&#8230; Well I am not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[246,125,155,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-gender","category-republican","category-sino-japanese-wars"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1Hb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}