Kang Tongbi (Kang Tung Pih) 康同璧, circa 1905.
The daughter of a Chinese intellectual, Tongbi was the first Asian student at Barnard. After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Tongbi returned to China and became involved in feminist causes. Unlike many other women of her class, Tongbi’s feet had never been bound as her parents objected to the practice. In Shanghai, Tongbi co-founded a Tianzuhui (Natural Feet Society) with a female doctor. Tongbi also edited Nüxuebao (Women’s Education), one of the first women’s journals in China, and published a biography of her father Kang Youwei. In the 1920s, she helped organize the Shanghai Women’s Association, which petitioned the Nationalist government in Nanjing for a new constitution under the slogan, “Down with the warlords and up with equality between men and women.”.
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![Poster has several black and white images of Asian women working in a factory. The top edge has a black bar with white text. It reads, “Women hold up half the sky.” The bottom right corner has a quote printed in black: “In order to build a great socialist society, it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to join in productive activity. Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. Mao Tse-Tung 1955.” The phrase “Women hold up half the sky” was embraced by Mao Zedong and popularized both domestically and internationally during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. [LMC]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx6f2qO7sD1qzpcgro1_500.jpg)
