Student Archives of Wang Canzhi, Daughter of Jianhu Heroine Qiu Jin, Found in ECNU Archives

During the process of building history museum of university, with the clue from the teacher of Distance Education College Wan Mingxia, the student archives of Jianhu heroine Qiu Jin’s daughter Wang Canzhi’s, which recorded her study status in DaXia University, were found in Archives. Wang Canzhi, whose given name was Guifeng and courtesy name was Canzhi, came from Xiangjiang in Hunan Province. She studied in education section department of administration in DaXia University in 1927, and in 1928, she went to the U.S. learning manufacture of aircraft and aeronautics in aviation college of New York University for two years. In 1930, she finished her study and went back to motherland, becoming China’s first female pilot and praised as “east aviation heroine” by American aviation. 

Photo of Qiu Jin’s daughter Wang Canzhi

(Translated and Edited by Liyi Huang. Email: huangliyi163@163.com)