[PW] Re: "Most admired woman in china"

[Sylvia Milne]

It was passed on.
If you look in the Archives at 
http://lists.project-wombat.org/pipermail/project-wombat/
Go to Author and look under your name and you'll find it.

Sylvia Milne

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Suzanne Guinn" <librarian at calvary.edu>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:42 PM
Subject: [PW] Re: "Most admired woman in china"


> Adminstrator, I sent a reply suggesting Gladys Aylward but have not seen 
> it
> on the list. Can you tell me why it wasn't passed on?
>
> By God's grace
> Suzanne Guinn, director
> Hilda Kroeker Library
> Calvary Bible College and Theo. Sem.
> 15800 Calvary Road
> Kansas City, MO 64147
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: project-wombat-fm-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org
> [mailto:project-wombat-fm-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of
> Frances Hammond
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:56 AM
> To: list at project-wombat.org
> Subject: [PW] "Most admired woman in china"
>
> Help!  We have a client trying to find the name of a woman who became 
> known
> as the "most admired woman in China".  The client is not very clear about
> any details (and gets less clear the more I ask) however I understand the
> aforementioned woman is not political (not Madam Chiang or any of Mao's
> wives) and was held up as an example (possibly from a survey or list),
> probably in the 1950's (but may be later) (Not Hillary Clinton who you 
> find
> if you search the web!).  I've had a preliminary hunt through our 
> resources
> on Chinese women but short of reading them all from cover to cover I'm not
> having much luck - possible she's one of the women designated an
> "Agricultural production heroine of the North East"  (a publication quoted
> in Delia Davin's "Women's work : women in party in revolutionary China") 
> but
> I can't find the sobriquet "most admired" anywhere.  Possibly tied in to
> reform of marriage laws and the reduction of infanticide of girl-children
> (client has mentioned the infanticide bit).  I've also had a bit of a hunt
> through our Ebscohost databases and Encyclopedia Britannica without any 
> joy
> and I'm not keen on reading through the "Biographical dictionary of 
> Chinese
> Women" on what is possibly a wild goose (or should that be swan?) chase.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Frances Hammond
> Reference Librarian
> Business Specialist
> State Reference Library
> State Library of WA
>
> ph: 08 9427 3456
> email: frances.hammond at slwa.wa.gov.au
>
> If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have asked for a 
> faster
> horse... Henry Ford
>
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