Xiang Jingyu, born on this day in 1895, was one of the earliest female members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a pioneer of the women’s movement of China. She was executed by Guomindang police on May 1st, 1928.

Xiang Jingyu was politically radicalized when she attended the Montargis Women’s University in France. While studying there, Jingyu read many of Marx’s works and became a communist.

In 1923, Xiang became editor of a weekly supplement to The Republican Daily, a Guomindang newspaper. The same year Xiang Jingyu was also elected as a Central Committee member and became the first secretary of the “Women’s Movement Committee”.

In 1924, Xiang led a strike involving about ten thousand female workers from silk factories. Then, she founded the “Committee of Women’s Liberation” and trained many female cadres, who then became a force against feudalism and imperialism.

Xiang Jingyu was arrested in the French Concession Sandeli in Wuhan on March 20th, 1928. French officials turned her over to the Guomindang in April. On May 1st, 1928 she was executed.

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  • Targuinia [she/her]English
    0•2 years ago

    apparently he spells his name “Fredrik deBoer”

    it bothers me when Americans have Dutch names and decide to do insane shit to it

    annoyingly it’s actually closer to how it should be spelled than you usually see but it bothers me more because it’s neither the English nor the Dutch way it should be spelled lmfao

      • Targuinia [she/her]English
        1•2 years ago

        smh totally uncalled for

        name one thing we ever did wrong without mentioning Indonesia, Suriname, Guyana, India, South Africa, Ghana, Taiwan, most of the Caribbean, and a bunch more not immediately coming to mind

        go ahead you won’t

          • Targuinia [she/her]English
            1•2 years ago

            I can’t keep up the bit against that

            I hate it

            I hate it I hate it I hate it

            And you get all the fucking chuds whining about “but but what about the children” and “muh traditions” because it’s too much to ask to just not be a fucking racist

            Luckily opinion is turning, but the reason for that is the George Floyd protests
            It took the fucking murder of a black person for this country to be like “maybe we shouldn’t do the blackface holiday”

            /rant
            bleh