CHINESE WOMEN.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 65, 7 June 1912, Page 12

CHINESE WOMEN.

f TRUE HEROINES.

A Japanc;* writer of roputv re- .. cords that it is no longer right to think of the Chinese woman as ''a toy, a slave on a pair of golden lily. foot" ; on the contrary, "compared with the modern Chinese woman, the mill:- --: that London suffragette is: as- nothing." Ho tolls us fascinating stone:of "women who haw devoted themselves to the cause of liberty. There was the only daughter of a wealthy merchant ;of Nanking, who turned her back; on the luxury she was born into, and th? culture she had been taught, and kivc herself and her wealth to the rovolu- ' tionary cause. Though a mero slip- of ft girl, she succeeded in purchasing arms and smugghiiff. thnm into China. ; Slie was beheaded at the age ol 20 for alleged complicity in an assassination-, "but in. that short period she had stirred the spirit of thousands, ot people- and helped to givw the revolution a soul." Three well-to-do girls were discovered last year in Canton carrying ammunition to the rebels. They were walking arsenals. bfll*f»- containing hundreds of cartridges, being wound about, their bodies-. There was Mrs. Wang, who left a- humdrum life in ttio capital to carry the fiery cross of revolution through'thcoountry.. She dressed as a man, and earned a sword. She, too,, perished, at the hands, of the executioner. There-was also Chin Chiian, a famous actress, about whose eves provinces talked, who devoted a large portion of her income to the purchase !of arms and ammunition for the cause. iH'e.r bright head also fell in tho dust iWhen Chinese women ran show such 'courage and devotion, it is not sur- , prising to find English women- raiding la House of Commons-.