Lü Bicheng

Lü Bicheng

Lü Bicheng at Ta Kung Pao in Tianjin

Lü Bicheng at the Animal Welfare Congress in Vienna

Lü Bicheng ( Chinese  呂碧城  /  吕碧城 , Pinyin Lǚ Bì chéng * 1883 in Jingde , Province of Anhui , Imperial China , † 1943 in Hong Kong ) was an important writer and teacher of modern China, working for women's rights and women's education and for the protection of animals engaged .

Origin and youth

Lü Bicheng's father, Lü Fengqi, was a senior school officer in Shanxi Province . She was the youngest of three sisters. After her father died, her mother was kidnapped during a robbery. These circumstances led to the dissolution of Lü Bicheng's marriage vows on the part of her fiancé's family. She remained single all of her life.

Act

In 1903 she met Ying Lianzhi , the founder of Ta Kung Pao , who was impressed by her literary talent and hired her as an editor for his newspaper. Lü Bicheng became the first female journalist in the history of China. In 1904 she met the revolutionary Qiu Jin there , who, unlike Lü Bicheng, was ready to overthrow the Manchurian Qing dynasty even in an open uprising. Lü Bicheng wrote articles for the Chinese women's magazine (中國 女 報) founded by Qiu Jin in Shanghai on January 14, 1907 .

In 1904 she took a position at one of the first girls' schools in the Beiyang region , the Beiyang Women's Public School (北洋 女子 公 學) , first as a teacher, then as its director. Yuan Shikai , who had been the minister for the Beiyang region since 1902, had approved funds for the construction of schools for girls and women, including the Beiyang Women's Normal School (北洋 女 師範 學堂) (also Zhili First Women's Normal School ) The aim was to train teachers. Lü Bicheng took part in the grand opening of the Beiyang Women's Normal School founded by Fu Zengxiang , the development of which she was to accompany. One of the students at this school was Deng Yingchao , the future wife of Zhou Enlai , who would later play an active political role in the People's Republic of China . In 1907 both schools were merged.

After the establishment of the Republic of China and the appointment of Yuan Shikai as president, Lü Bicheng worked in the secretariat of his government from 1912 to 1915. She then went to Shanghai, where she became rich as a trader.

In 1918 she began studying literature and art at Columbia University , New York . In 1922 she returned to China.

Lü Bicheng traveled to the west again from 1926 to 1933 . In 1929 she took part on III. International Animal Welfare Congress in Vienna , where she called for a general ban on killing animals.

After her return, she lived in Hong Kong until her death , where she translated sutras . Lü Bicheng was an avowed Buddhist .

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Lü Bicheng is famous for her Ci poems . a. in Xiao zhu ci .

Philosophical works:

• Hongxue yinyuan (Traces on the Snow) , also known as Oumei manyou lü (Wanderings in Europe and the Americas)
• Husheng ji (The Protection of Life)
• Oumei zhi guang (The Light of Europe and the Americas) .

References

This article contains the translated text of the Chinese-language Wikipedia article (as of January 6, 2010), which is subject to the GNU Free Documentation License .

1. ^ Marc Nürnberger; Gentle and powerful women from China ; Elisabeth Sandmann Publishing House
2. ^ Marc Nürnberger; Gentle and powerful women from China ; Elisabeth Sandmann Publishing House
3. ↑ Lily Xiao Hong Lee, AD Stefanowska; Biographical dictionary of Chinese Women: the Qing Period, 1644-1911 ; ME Sharpe, Inc
4. ↑ Glen Peterson, Ruth Hayhoe, Yongling Lu; Education, culture, and identity in the twentieth-century China ; The University of Michigan Press
5. ↑ Wikipedia article: Beiyang Women's Normal School (北洋 女 師範 學堂)
6. ↑ Wikipedia article: Deng Yingchao (邓颖超)
7. ↑ Lily Xiao Hong Lee, AD Stefanowska; Biographical dictionary of Chinese Women: the Qing Period, 1644-1911 ; ME Sharpe, Inc
8. ^ Marc Nürnberger; Gentle and powerful women from China ; Elisabeth Sandmann Publishing House

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