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Qiu Jin was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer. Qiu was executed after a failed uprising against the Qing dynasty and is considered a national heroine in China and a martyr of republicanism and feminism.
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culture · Chinese feminist and revolutionary (1875–1907) · writer · poet · journalist · women's rights activist · revolutionary · feminist · also Qiu Jin, Yugu, Jianhunüxia, Qiuxia, Xuanqing, Qiu Runjin
Born 8 November 1875 · Died 15 July 1907 · Q465324
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s 200 Million Women Comrades, a manifesto within which she lamented the problems caused by bound feet and oppressive marriages. Having suffered from both ordeals herself, Qiu explained her experience in the manifesto and received an overwhelmingly sympathetic response from her readers. Also outlined in the manifesto was Qiu
“s 200 Million Women Comrades, a manifesto within which she lamented the problems caused by bound feet and oppressive marriages. Having suffered from both ordeals herself, Qiu explained her experience in the manifesto and received an overwhelmingly sympathetic response from her readers. Also outlined in the manifesto was Qiu”
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The New York Times published a belated obituary for her
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Burying Autumn, that explores Qiu Jin's friendship with her sworn sisters Wu Zhiying and Xu Zihua and situates her work in the larger sociopolitical and literary context of the time
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China Internet Information Center: Qiu Jin: A heroine in China's anti-feudalist cause
Jing Xiong Nüxia Qiu Jin (競雄女俠秋瑾), or The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake, was directed by Herman Yau
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The Shaoxing built the Monument to the Martyr Qiu Jin at the location where she was executed
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Died 1907-07-15.
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Became head of the Datong School, which Xu Xilin had established with the goal of developing revolutionaries
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Xu Xilin, Qiu's friend and the Datong School's co-founder was executed for attempting to assassinate his Manchu superior
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Founded China Women's News (Zhongguo nü bao), a radical women's journal with another female poet, Xu Zihua in Shanghai
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Merged with a variety of overseas Chinese revolutionary groups to form the Tongmenghui, led by Sun Yat-sen
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Decided to travel overseas and study in Tokyo, Japan, leaving her two children behind
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Born 1875-11-08.
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