Xiang Jingyu, born on this day in 1895, was one of the earliest female members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a pioneer of the women's movement of China. She was executed by Guomindang police on May 1st, 1928.
Xiang Jingyu was politically radicalized when she attended the Montargis Women's University in France. While studying there, Jingyu read many of Marx's works and became a communist.
In 1923, Xiang became editor of a weekly supplement to The Republican Daily, a Guomindang newspaper. The same year Xiang Jingyu was also elected as a Central Committee member and became the first secretary of the "Women's Movement Committee".
In 1924, Xiang led a strike involving about ten thousand female workers from silk factories. Then, she founded the "Committee of Women's Liberation" and trained many female cadres, who then became a force against feudalism and imperialism.
Xiang Jingyu was arrested in the French Concession Sandeli in Wuhan on March 20th, 1928. French officials turned her over to the Guomindang in April. On May 1st, 1928 she was executed.
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My lib dad and me bond over the "I did everything right and they indicted me" sound clip and making fun of it
We have pretty different politics obviously, my dad has the most mainstream CNN lib takes imaginable, I never outright said that I'm a communist but he knows that I'm at the very least far left, not a big fan of capitalism and not totally opposed to China. We have a pretty good relationship but we've kinda always found it hard to have, idk, casual father/son banter, we're just both not really wired for smalltalk, he's always fully invested in his work and I'm always fully invested in my own stuff. We don't have a ball game to go to or talk about, we don't share any interests, idk.
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we finally have something we both follow and both agree on.
I kinda play up my Trump Derangement Syndrome for him, he'll go on about "Can you believe Trump violated the constitution like that? How insane is that?" and instead of going on a jokerfied rant about how the democrats are just as bad and ruling class solidarity yadda yadda I'll just go "I know, right? Incredible that he got away with so much and they're still voting for him!"
And recently we've had a bit of an in-joke for the first time ever, really, which is making exaggerated impressions of "I did everything right and they indicted me" whenever it kinda fits the situation.
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I’ve been using the word bigley around people all the time since he originally said it. I still start laughing sometimes to this day