[1] American missionary Gertrude Howe, mentor to western-educated Chinese physicians Ida Kahn and Mary Stone,[2] helped Tang go to the United States in 1898.

[3] She graduated from the Central Wesleyan College in Warrenton, Missouri, and completed kindergarten teacher training in Minneapolis.

[7] Tang spoke at church and YWCA events in the United States during her student years.

[12] She was assistant to Honsinger when the latter woman was head of the Baldwin Memorial School for Girls at Nanchang, including during its rebuilding after a fire.

[17] She gave lectures to church and community groups during her return visit to the United States in 1918.