14 Facts About Shi Pingmei

Shi Pingmei was considered as one of the four women famous for their contributions to modern Chinese literature in the early Republic of China.

Shi Pingmei's father did not agree that to keep women virtuous you should keep them ignorant and he sent his daughter to school in Taiyuan.

Shi Pingmei studied in Shanxi's provincial capital until she was 18 when she graduated from the Taiyuan Women's Teaching College.

Shi Pingmei took an interest in politics and for that reason she moved to Beijing and enrolled at the Women's Teaching College.

Shi Pingmei actually majored in physical education because there was no course that year for literature.

Shi Pingmei wrote novel poetry and became a popular writer on ideas and Marxism.

Shi Pingmei was tricked into swearing her undying love to a married man.

Shi Pingmei was from the same province of China and he was a founding member of China's communist party.

Shi Pingmei died when she was 23 and for the next three years she went to Taoran Pavilion where he was buried.

Shi Pingmei had a now famous friendship with fellow writers Lu Yin and Lu Jingqing.

Shi Pingmei died when she was 26 and was buried next to Gao Junyu in Taoranting Park.

Shi Pingmei visited their graves and highlighted that love and revolution were not incompatible.

Shi Pingmei died in 1928 and she came to be regarded in the Republic of China as one of the top four most talented Chinese women with Lu Bicheng, Eileen Chang and Xiao Hong.

Gao Junyu and Shi Pingmei's graves were a place of pilgrimage for young couples and groups after her story was published.