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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the big short is so weird
i mean its rich evil people make money cinema but it also lays a lot of ‘this is bad’ out there idk
Adam McKay movies all have kind of a formula and it’s a little off putting to me. At least it was a critique.
You want a movie that glorifies all that shit? Wolf of Wall Street, it’s not even close, and it will never be beaten. Scorsese says no, it actually was a critique. Someone else I can’t remember said “there’s no such thing as an anti war movie”.
Big short was quasi-documentary enough that I think it presented a legitimate critique. Wolf of Wall Street had a million people saying “man I wish I got to try quaaludes when they were still around”.
Of course I’d be remiss not to say that Michael Lewis wrote the book, The Big Short. He also wrote Liar’s Poker about the junk bond boom, bust, and fraud in the 80s. I’m sure nobody here will agree with his politics that much, being educated at the London School of Economics and all, but if you want raw, down and dirty reporting about what the finance world is REALLY like… Accept no substitutes.
Hot take this is my general criticism of Scorcese. I agree with you about Wolf of Wall Street, but I honestly think the criticism holds for Goodfellas and Casino too. Also he made Silence where the good guys are imperialist missionaries and the bad guys are the evil orientals trying to protect their nation from colonial penetration.
“For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster…”
I like his stuff but when you start a movie like that, you’re kind of setting a tone. It’s tough to say that someone actually meant this or meant that when you’re not in their head but I go back to that evergreen quote, there’s no such thing as an anti war movie.
Unless you show men women and children screaming and crying, human rights abuses, things I won’t even discuss here… It really can’t be anti war. So I feel what you’re saying about Scorsese.
I mean I genuinely don’t care what he thinks, the movies are what they are regardless. I’m with you though.