Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-29
Carolina Chinese Student
Ayers China VIII Never
Be Conquered By Foes
BY r. w. MADRY.

Chapel Hill, Dec. 29.-China NAV he
tverpowered temporarily but she will
never be really conquered byS the In
panesa. prophesies winsome, charm
.ne Elizabeth Wang, daughter of the
cl.ief Of military operations for the
government of China, WANG Wen
.,huen.
Miss Wang recently marticu.ateo
n the University of North Carolina
where she is taking graduate work in
English and comparative literature
She had expected to arrive for the
opening OF the fall quarter, but the
confusion due to war delayed her trim
two months.
she was reluctant to leave her faith
e. whose position with the Nankinp
government corresponds to that Of
chief-of-staff in this country, but since
she had already planned, before tha
undeclared war began, to continue
her education in America, her father
insisted that she do so.
Speaks English Well.
Miss Wang, who speaks English
meant in saying the Chinese could
NGE CC
"Of course the Japanese NAV over
power our Army, for they outnumber
us so much she explained. "cut if
they try TO set up puppet govern
ment. rs is assumed, the trouble will
not be over"
She said her people would never
submit to Japanese domination. They
would then carry on a guerilla war
fare and use every means to harrass
the puppet government, she asserted.
Miss Wang, who in her native land
is Wang Te-CheGn, has attracted
more attention than any coed to en-
roll in the University in recent years
And little wonder the students gaze
at her SO admiringly. Tor she is most
attractive. Clad in a lowered silken
gown and a scarlet silken coat, the
slender young woman moves about
the campus with a light and graceful
step. She has coal-black hair which
IS arranged in a crown of lustrous
curls
High Rating in Scholarship.
She was one of DR.. E. E. Er;cson's
students when he was in the faculty
Of National Central University two
wears ago. Before that she had been
graduated from the Kiangen Provin-
cal Normal School, and from the Ma
tional Normal University at Feiping.
At the National Central University
she took her degree in Chinese iera-
tura and philosophy Her thesis, "The
History Of Ancient Chinese Thought"
was printed in Chinese She remained
at the University in Marking for a
year of graduate work in foreign Ian
guages and literature, chiefly in Eng
lish
It doesn't take a college examining
board to discover that Miss Wang is
a brilliant student. On her credit
sheet are LAS" and "B's' for subjects
like Chinese poetry, philosophy Of
Laotze, and philology.
While being oriented to life in
Chapel Hill Miss Wang has lived with
the Ericsson family in the Graham
Court Apartments where she has been
almost swamped by callers. On a re-
cent afternoon % students called up
on her. She is the personification of
graciousness and never seems to lose
patience With her questioncrs. After
Christmas she will move into the New
Woman's Graduate dormitcry.
College Life Compared.
Miss Wang was asked to compare
college life in America and China.
In China, she said, extra-curricular
activities don't play such an impor-
tant role as they do over here. The
Chinese students seem to take their
studies more seriously. But, she ad-
ded, the influence of the Western
world is rapidly becoming more pro