User:Lychee99/The Feminist Manifesto: He-Yin Zhen

Provenance
He-Yin Zhen (also known as He Zhen) used her mother’s maiden name He in her published writings, as part of her belief that the patrilineal surname was a function of patriarchal oppression. She married her husband Liu Shipe i in 1904, to which many of her works are misattributed. Together they visited Japan in 1907 and founded the Society for the Restoration of Women’s Rights (Nüzi fuquan hui), and its accompanying journal, Natural Justice (Tianyi). The journal ran from 1907-1908 and published many of He-Yin Zhen’s essays on anarchism, Marxism, and radical feminism. Natural Justice was also the source of the first Chinese translation of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, introducing Communist thought to China. However, despite the significant influence her publications had on the emergence of feminism and communism in China, He-Yin Zhen’s works are not well known in Chinese and feminist scholarship.