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XIANG JINGYU Collaboration by Deborah, Hee Jae and Ashley

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**BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION** (HJC) in = strongly believed that education would improve China's situation
 * a pioneer of women's liberation movement born in 1985 Xupu, China
 * born to a businessman's family that valued education; four brothers sent to study in Japan
 * in her youth, especially close to her eldest brother //Xiang Xianyue//, graduate of Waseda University in Japan and a member of Tung Men Hui (Chinese League) established by Dr. Sun Yat-sen
 * able to pursue education, with the support of her brother; first girl to enter in her county to attend a school based on modern educational ideas
 * 1908: went to Changde to continue her education
 * listened to her brother about revolutionary activities of foreign countries
 * became fascinated w/ French revolutionary Madame Roland
 * inspired by Hua Mulan, who disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the army in place of her sick father
 * 1911, declared ties of sisterhood with her six friends
 * vow made to boost women's morale, stuy hard, fight for gender equality, save China by raising awareness about education
 * after finishing her studies at Zhounan Girl's School in 1916, became the principal at Xupu Girl's School
 * sent requests to the government to ask parents to send their daughters to school
 * in France met Cai Hesun, famous student leader in Hunan providence and soon to be a founder of the Chinese Communist party
 * married him => democracy -> Marxism; no longer believed that education would save China = only an entire reform of society would free women
 * 1921: became a member of the communist party and head of the party's movement for women
 * studied in Soviet Union and after she returned, became director of the Propaganda Department of Hankou
 * editor-in-chief of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) underground publication

**IDEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION** (HJC)
 * engaged in woman's liberation movement in Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou
 * believed that **educated** women were the epitome of women's movement
 * massive force of laboring women should be the center of the women's movement; set up public schools for girls & night schools for working women
 * image of woman's movement in China changed; instead of focusing on Christian or wealthy privileged women of the upper class, included women of all social classes
 * supported Marxism-Leninism as solution to warlord-imperialist power in China

**OPPOSED** (AK)
 * Because she married the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (Chai Hesun) she was hated by most right wing nationalists who believe in supremacism and completely disagree with the notion of social equality between all people.
 * Specifically, someone who opposed her was Xiang Kai Shek, the leader of the KMT party in China that was anti-communist
 * He had her arrested during his Communist opression
 * On May 1928 he had her executed. During the execution she was bound and gagged to prevent her making a final public speech to her followers before her death - to stop the propagation of her ideas.
 * PRIMARY SOURCE** (Deborah and Ashley)
 * Deborah: "**A Plan For Women's Development"** claims that women have a responsibility to help transform the world and advocates education as the means to do so; in addition, coeducation, in her view, is the best way to improve women’s education.




 * Ashley:**

"We seven sisters are of the same will; to boost women's morale, to study hard, to fight for equality between men and women, and to save China by popularizing education."
 * This is the vow that was made between Xiang Jingyu and her close friends in 1911
 * This message stayed with her for most of her life and outlined many of the main points of her beliefs
 * It shows the status of women at that time: uneducated, possessing no opportunities, and being reliant on men

Deborah: Hee Jae: Is educating citizens the best way to improve a country and to solve its social problems such as gender equality? Ashley:
 * QUESTIONS**


 * WORK CITED**

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:dNekqB7jjTAJ:www.exeas.org/resources/pdf/chinese-women-modernity.pdf+primary+sources+xiang+jingyu&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShuWyoJYyy26TtycSjqXK9pvOGDmebieXiKQQHhXVUSSkaXg8fEjdLZLScg-y2mMBTTGOD7ts_Y6TQu4B0Yt13ACfRc0NGuc0QfSO8msWNpv_5fcipnD_mE9RDAdg8HzNdlH5g3&sig=AHIEtbSIHzhQGr2FYSTeGFOfIdn55IfDaA

"Xiang Jingyu: Women's Movement Pioneer." //All-China Women's Federation//. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2010. .

"Xiang Jingyu: Biography from Answers.com." //Answers.com: Wiki Q&A combined with free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedias//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 May 2010. .

"Women of History - X." __A Bit of History__. 13 May 2010 .