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Ruthy Tu

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Ruthy Tu
杜光照
Ruthy Tu, 1955 in Taiwan
Died	1969
Nationality	Chinese
Other names	Tu Guan-chiao
Occupation	aviator

Ruthy Tu (Chinese: 杜光照; pinyin: Dù Guāngzhào; ?-1969, also known as Tu Guan-chiaoorRosie Du)^[1] was a British-trained Chinese aviator who was one of the most prominent Chinese fliers in the 1930s.^[2] In 1932, she became the first Chinese woman to earn a pilot's license^[3]^[2] and the first woman to join the Chinese Army as a pilot.^[4]

Tu later moved to Taiwan and became the first woman in that country to join the Baháʼí Faith in 1952, along with two men.^[5] She was active in the Baháʼí Assembly in Taiwan until her death in 1969.^[6]

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^ Sims 1994, p. 15.

^ ^a ^b Gully 2007, p. 352.

^ "First Licensed Female Pilots (per country) - Women in Aviation & Space History". Centennialofwomenpilots.com. Retrieved 2020-03-02.

^ Shayler, David J.; Moule, Ian A. (2005). Women in space—following Valentina. Berlin: Springer. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-84628-078-8.

^ Baháʼí Library Online 2010.

^ Sims 1994, pp. 15, 18, 20.

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Crippen, Ray (7 March 2014). "Column: Let's fly straight to the point - the pilot was a woman". Worthington, Minnesota: Daily Globe. Archived from the original on 2 January 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2017.

Gully, Patti (2007). Sisters of heaven: China's barnstorming aviatrixes : modernity, feminism, and popular imagination in Asia and the West. San Francisco, California: Long River Press. ISBN 978-1-59265-075-0.

Mahanti, Subodh (2005). Reaching for the stars: Kalpana Chawla and a brief history of space journey (Reprint ed.). New Delhi, India: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India. ISBN 978-8-123-01142-4.

Millward, Liz (2008). Women in British imperial airspace, 1922-1937. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-7735-6051-2.

Shayler, David J.; Moule, Ian A. (2005). Women in space—following Valentina. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-1-84628-078-8.

Sims, Barbara R. (1994). Taiwan Baháʼí Chronicle: An Historical Record of the Early Days of the Baháʼí Faith in Taiwan. Tokyo, Japan: Baha'i Publishing Trust of Taiwan. OCLC 47443603. Archived from the original on 2 January 2017.

"Baháʼí Chronology: years 1950s". Baháʼí Library Online. Wilmette, Illinois. 2010. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2017.

"Ruthy Tu". Centennial of Women Pilots. Vancouver, Canada: Institute for Women Of Aviation Worldwide. 24 July 2015. Archived from the original on 10 December 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2016.

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