The first public meeting of the Shangh Woman's Might Move-as held on Sunday afternoon kiangsu Educational Association in West Gate. Young men as well as young! women were present. and many of the older Chinese women showed their interes in this novel departure by their presence.
All speeches were made in Chinese but foreigners were welcomed.
Mrs. Tsaung Tai-yien, the wife of the famous Chinese scholar', and a graduate of the Wu Pung Girls' School, presided and opened the meeting with a report on the history of the movement and the nee@ which produced it. Miss Tsang, who spoke nest, is still a student in the Women's Higher Normal School in Peking. She one of the pioneers of the m ment in that city and gave a ye spirited account of its rapid development since early summer when it started with one small organization. She said that when the Woman's Suffrage Association held ite first meeting in Peking the authorities interfered with them on the ground that women had no rights and no understanding of political questions. This brought the conviction to a group of young women that simply to demand suffrage would not solve the question, that there were many othe: things for the fuller necessary development of the Chinese wwoman's personality, and so the Woman's Rights Movement sprang into being.
Mr. Chang Kyi, a representative of Dr, Sun Yat-sen, who has just returned from, Mukden, referred to the history of the Woman's Movement started 100 years ago in France. Although Chinese women had not entered actively into suena a movement until the founding of the Republic they took a very active part in the first revolution and some organized themselves into a. woman's army, representatives from which were present at the meeting. It was a mistake, Mr. Chang felt, to say that economic independence will solve all problems for Chinese women, since Cantonese women who are. economically free are oppressed in every other way. Political privileges and a aew system of ethics were necessary for 8 woman's - emancipation.
Miss Rachel Brooks, a secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, who was actively connected with the campaign for woman's suffrage in the States.
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