Xie Bingying, born Xie Minggang, courtesy name Fengbao, was a Chinese soldier and writer.
15 Facts About Xie Bingying
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Xie Bingying is most well known for her autobiographies of her life as a soldier in the Nationalist Army.
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Xie Bingying's father was a scholar and she had four siblings: one older sister and three older brothers.
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Xie Bingying entered school in 1916, and was the only girl in a private boys' school in her village.
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Xie Bingying participated in the Northern Expedition of 1926, and was particularly active in the propaganda units.
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However, instead Xie Bingying moved to Hengyang to teach grade school, and then to Shanghai.
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Xie Bingying mainly lived off the royalties of this work while she studied at the Shanghai Academy of Art.
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Xie Bingying passed the entrance examination and enrolled in the University by 1930.
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Unfortunately, Fu Hao was arrested in 1930 because of his left-wing political views and Xie Bingying was forced to flee as well to avoid arrest by the Beijing government.
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Xie Bingying eventually left her daughter in the care of Fu's mother and went to Japan to continue her studies.
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Xie Bingying was not in Japan for long and returned to Shanghai in 1931.
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Xie Bingying traveled around writing, teaching, and publishing in Fujian and Hunan, until she returned to Japan in 1935.
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Xie Bingying would publish an account of her experiences as a prisoner in 1940, in a book entitled Inside a Japanese Prison.
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Xie Bingying created the Hunan Women's War Zone Service Corps, which provided first aid on the front lines, and continued her work in propaganda.
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Xie Bingying later emigrated to the United States in 1974, and died in San Francisco in 2000.