1. Tang Qunying was the first female member of the Tongmenghui, a secret society and underground resistance movement founded in Tokyo, Japan by Sun Yat-sen and Song Jiaoren in 1905.
20 Facts About Tang Qunying
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Tang Qunying was chairwoman of the Women's Suffrage Alliance, an organization created by the merger of the Nanjing Women's Alliance, the Women's Backup Society, the Women's Martial Spirit Society, and the Women's Suffrage Comrades' Alliance in 1912.
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Tang Qunying was born on 8 December 1871 in Hengshan County, Hunan, as Tang Qunying Gongyi.
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Tang Qunying was the third of seven children, and the second-to-youngest daughter of a general during the Qing dynasty rule.
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Tang Qunying was very close to her father who educated her and her sisters along with his sons, treating them as equals.
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Tang Qunying was excellent in her studies and was a poet.
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Tang Qunying was a very talented speaker from a young age and her quick and sharp replies and arguments early in life reflected her keen and sharp intellect.
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Tang Qunying wrote the first poem "Getting up at Dawn" when she was 15, which was praised by her father and it laid the foundation for her advocating women's rights.
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Tang Qunying was from the neighbouring village of Heye, from an elite family well connected to another famous feminist leader of China, Qiu Jin.
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Tang Qunying then returned to her parental family, though it was not customary to do so, to the "Three Good Fortune Hall".
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Tang Qunying devoted herself to serious studies of books, and caring for her mother and brothers.
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Tang Qunying formed a circle of her old friends from China with similar ideology to bring about change in Chinese society and political scene.
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In 1905, her revolutionary approach saw her learn the handling of weapons and bomb manufacture; the Russian anarchists were the trainers and Tang Qunying took up this training with zest and zeal, in which many of her feminist friends took part.
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Tang Qunying was responsible for establishing the Ten-day Vernacular Newspaper for Women and restarted publication of Chinese Women Report.
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Tang Qunying was very confident of her convictions and like her leader Sun Yat-sen, she would take to the political stage with courage to face even a hostile crowd and bring them all around to her line of thinking.
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Tang Qunying imbibed confidence in women that started a genre of women who could express their viewpoints in all types of gatherings without feeling nervous.
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Tang Qunying held a memorial in his honour in the girls school she had founded.
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Tang Qunying fled to Chengsha and spent some time there with her mother.
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Tang Qunying returned to Hengshan around a year before her death.
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Tang Qunying died in her hometown of Hunan, China, on 3 June 1937, aged 66.