Women's Liberation through Struggle

Abstract

I was born in a poor family in Nankung, a small hsien town in southern Hopei Province, and in 1936 entered the normal school there. I was very indignant at the society that allowed the bloodsucking landlords and officials to ride roughshod over the poor, while the latter, after gruelling labor, still went hungry. A teacher named Chang often talked about why class oppression existed and introduced me to some progressive books. The elder sister of a classmate, who I later came to know was an underground Communist Party member, told us that the Communist Party had been leading the poor to make revolution and that after a 25,000-li Long March the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army led by Chairman Mao had set up an anti-Japanese base in Yenan. I began to learn the truths of revolution.