A Chinese poet and a revolutionary, Qiu Jin was born in 1875 into a moderately wealthy family. While growing up she enjoyed riding horses and playing with swords. She also liked to read. Her family insisted that she receive good education and she was able to socialize with other well-educated people.
At the age of twenty-one Qiu Jin was married to an older man. He had a more conventional outlook on life than she did and she felt stifled in this relationship. She left her husband in 1903 and went to study in Japan where she was vocal in her support for women's rights and pressed for improved access to education for women. To provide female role models, she wrote articles about historical Chinese women.In 1906 she returned to China and started publishing a women's magazine in which she encouraged women to gain financial independence through education and training in various prefessions. She encouraged women to resist oppression by their families and by the government. At the time it was still customary for women in China to have their feet bound at the age of five. The result of this practice was that the feet were small but crippled. Women's freedom of movement was severely restricted and left them dependent on other people. Such helpless women were, however, more desired as wives, so their families continued the practice to protect their daughters' future security.Qiu Jin felt that a better future for women lay under a Western-type government instead of the corrupt Manchu government that was in power at the time. She joined forces with her male cousin Hsu Hsi-lin and together they worked to unite many secret revolutionary societies to work together for the overthrow of the Manchu government. On July 6, 1907 Hsu Hsi-lin was caught by the authorities before a scheduled uprising. He confessed his involvement under interrogation and was executed. Immediately after, on July 12, the government troops arrested Qiu Jin at the school for girls where she was a principal. She refused to admit her involvement in the plot, but they found incriminating documents and she was beheaded. Qiu Jin was acknowleged immediately as a heroine and a martyr who died fighting enemies of the Chinese people and she became a symbol of women's independence.
Qiu jin (November 8, 1875 - July 15, 1907), China advocates of feminism and women education thought, the person of democratic revolution.
The first sacrifice for the overthrow of thousands of years of feudal rule revolutionary pioneers, made a huge contribution to the revolution;
Advocates women to learn, to promotes the development of women's liberation movement.In July, 1904, against the husband Wang Tingjun, shake off the yoke of the feudal Japan study abroad at one's own expenses, into the Chinese students in Tokyo set by the Japanese assembly hall not Japanese, often take part in the student assembly and zhejiang, hunan association meeting, stump revolutionary salvation and women's rights.
Qiu jin besides learning in school, but also make more students in the lofty ideals, such as zhou shuren (lu xun), TaoChengZhang, qing dynasty, song jiaoren, tian-hua Chen, etc.
During this period, qiu jin's revolutionary activities, take an active part in Chinese students had together with love will pick Chen Finland launched, as a group to develop the women's movement,
And Liu Daoyi, Wang Shize become the secret will be ten people, eventually broke the shackles in the body of the feudal shackles against the qing dynasty, restore zhongyuan as an objective, establish vernacular newspaper, to participate in the hong door the heavens and the earth will be, the seal for the "white paper" (division).
Qiu Jin was a heroine and pioneer of China's feminist movement. She was born in 1875 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, into a scholarly family. She was intelligent and excelled in literature and martial arts. At the age of 16, she married a wealthy merchant's son, but the marriage was unhappy, and she returned to her parents' home after giving birth to her child.
In 1900, Qiu Jin met with the patriotic scholars and was deeply influenced by their ideas about national liberation and women's liberation. From then on, she began to actively participate in the patriotic movement and advocate for women's rights and interests. She established the "Chinese Women's Saving Association" and wrote many articles and poems to publicize the idea of women's liberation. At the same time, she also went to Japan to study and was deeply influenced by Japanese feminist ideas.
In 1904, Qiu Jin went to Japan to study and learned the ways of patriotic resistance and feminist thought. In 1905, she joined the underground Party and became one of the first female members of the Party in China. She took part in the uprising led by Huang Shouzhong in 1907 and was arrested after the failure of the uprising. She was tortured and refused to reveal any information about the Party, and finally was executed by the Qing government at the age of 32.
Qiu Jin is one of the few women who have made great achievements in China's modern history. She not only pioneered the women's liberation movement in modern China, but also sacrificed herself for the country. Her life and spirit deeply inspire people. She is a symbol of women's liberation and national independence. Her poetry and articles also have a profound influence on modern literature. Therefore, she is one of the most respected female figures in modern China.