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Full referenceWomen Returned Students' Christmas Party for Foreign Spinsters (1919)
TypeJournal article
TitleWomen Returned Students' Christmas Party for Foreign Spinsters
Year1919
JournalShanghai Times
Date publication1919
LanguageEnglish
Keywordsreturned student; women; Shanghai; organization; club; United States; United Kingdom; biography; elite; tea; dance; dinner; entertainment; disguise; Christmas; procession; gender; patriotism; prize; friendship; music; election; single
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Christmas Party. Foreign Spinsters Guests of Women Returned Students

Provides a very detailed account of the first major Sino-foreign ssocial event organized by the Chinese women returned students' club for American and English spinster collegians residing in Shanghai, stressing the novelty of such an event: "Such a function has never been held before in Shanghai by an for purely college women foreign and chinese, and the novetly and delight of it was a thoroughly happy time for all concerned". During the meeting were also elected the new officers of the Women Returned Students' Club for the coming year. 

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Published in the Shanghai Times, December 25, 1919. See also other account (very similar) published in the North China Herald, December 27, 1919. 

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