30 Facts About Xiang Jingyu

Xiang Jingyu, was one of the earliest female members of the Chinese Communist Party, widely regarded as a pioneer of the women's movement of China.

Xiang Jingyu was born in Xupu, Hunan province on 4 September 1895.

Xiang Jingyu's one brother, Xiang Xianyue, who had studied in Japan, was a leader of Tongmenghui in West Hunan.

Xiang Jingyu Xianyue founded a primary school in Wenchangge in 1903.

Xiang Jingyu attended this school because of the influence of her brother and became the first girl who studied in a school in the imperial era of China.

Xiang Jingyu was versed in both classical education and modern education.

Xiang Jingyu went to Changsha after the downfall of Qing dynasty with the 1911 Revolution.

Xiang Jingyu renamed herself Xiang Jingyu and attended the First Provincial Women's Normal School of Hunan, but then left this school and attended Zhou Nan Women's School.

Xiang Jingyu thought that education could rescue China, so she founded Xupu Primary School under the support of some local progressives.

In 1919, Xiang Jingyu joined the New Citizen Study Society, which had been founded by Mao Zedong and Cai Hesen.

In Beijing, Xiang Jingyu met with Cai Hesen and had a good relationship with him.

When Xiang Jingyu studied in France, she was concerned with the conditions of the world and China.

In France, Xiang Jingyu studied the works of Karl Marx and concluded that a socialist revolution was necessary to save China.

In early 1922, Xiang Jingyu was accepted by Chinese Communist Party and became one of the earliest female party members.

At the Party's 2nd National Congress in July 2022, Xiang Jingyu was appointed to lead the Party's women's movement.

Xiang Jingyu viewed women laborers as the primary force to achieve a revolution for women in China.

Xiang Jingyu led the various women's movements in CCP and had a major impact on Chinese women's movements in the 1920s.

Xiang Jingyu wrote articles for Guide Weekly and Women's Weekly, two publications which aimed to disseminate communist ideals and feminist ideals.

In June 1923, Xiang Jingyu attended the Party's 3rd National Congress.

Xiang Jingyu drafted the Resolution about the Women's Movement, which emphasized the importance of women workers' movements and stated that shared anti-warlord and anti-imperialist themes could unite the various women's movements in China such as the feminist movement, the women's suffrage movement, and the movement to abolish prostitution.

At the Congress, Xiang Jingyu was appointed to lead the Party's women's movement.

Xiang Jingyu's report noted that Christian women's movements in China had taken significant steps to focus on women workers, establishing schools and childcare in factories, and educating women about birth hygiene and discouraging habits like drinking, smoking, and gambling.

Xiang Jingyu stated that these movements relied on foreign capital, and therefore were not independent Chinese women's movements capable of achieving national salvation.

In January 1925, Xiang Jingyu was elected to the Central Committee now for the third time.

Xiang Jingyu played a key role in the strikes and protests of the May Thirtieth Movement of 1925.

Xiang Jingyu studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East.

Xiang Jingyu had a relationship with a fellow student from Mongolia.

Regardless of danger, Xiang Jingyu stayed on in Wuhan editing the party journal Chang Jiang and helping the workers' movement and underground Party.

Xiang Jingyu was arrested in Wuhan by the KMT in a purge of Communists and those who supported the Communists.

Xiang Jingyu was arrested in the French Concession Sandeli in Wuhan on 20 March 1928 due to the betrayal of members of her group to the police.