US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears in a Los Angeles Times article titled: "We Choose America Because it's Free," by B. M. Little, on 8/12/1934. Betty Wang (her Americanized name) was a Chinese journalist who graduated from Shanghai University, worked as a reporter for a daily Chinese newspaper before attending the University of Southern California as a graduate student in journalism in 1933-1934. While in Los Angeles she became a member of the Theta Sigma Phi national honorary and professional journalism sorority and worked as a technical expert on "The Good Earth" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; she appears in Harry Carr's "Lancer" feature 3 times. In 1934 she became editor of the women's page editor of the China Press newspaper in Shanghai in 1934. Ms. Wang published 2 articles in the Los Angeles Times: Ms. Wang published 2 articles in the Los Angeles Times: "We China Dolls are Free!" 6/3/1934" and "Mass Marriage in Shanghai" 11/24/1935. Half-length portrait of Betty Wang, seated next to the vine-covered porch of a house. Handwritten on negative: Betty Wang Text from negative sleeve: Wang, Betty. Author, 1934.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4465 ark:/21198/zz002cq8b3
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
People Journalists--Chinese--California--Los Angeles Media Wang, Betty
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