The Blog of Awesome Women/ Qiu Jin – ‘A Heroine Among Women’

Qiu Jin was called a “Heroine Among Women” by Sun
Yat-Sen. She was simply amazing! Born in 1874, her
hobbies included cross-dressing and riding through the
streets of Chinese cities and villages. She founded the first
newspaper for women in China, founded a school for girls,
and escaped from her arranged marriage to pursue her
revolutionary goals of overthrowing the Qing Monarchy.
Quite the intellectual, she wrote poetry and took a vow
of silence during her imprisonment upon being arrested
for plotting the assassination of the Qing governor. Her
daughter followed in her mother’s pioneering footsteps by
becoming China’s first aviatrix.