Chen Xiefen (Chinese: 陳擷芬; pinyin: chén xié fēn; Wade-Giles: ch'en hsieh fen; pen name: Chu‘nan nūzi;[1] 1883 – 1923), a Chinese feminist, revolutionary and journalist of the Qing era, is regarded as one of the first progressive Chinese women to utilize the press to further women’s rights.[2] From 1899 to 1903, Chen published Nübao magazine (later renamed Nüxuebao),[3] where she advocated for women's education, gender equality and economic independence.[4] After her magazine was banned in 1903, Chen Xiefen emigrated to Japan, where she briefly continued to print Nübao (now titled Nüxuebao).[5] Chen Xiefen remained active in anti-Qing revolutionary circles until her fall from the public eye in 1911.[6]
^Dooling, Amy D.; Torgeson, Kristina M. (1998). Writing women in modern China: an anthology of women's literature from the early twentieth century. Columbia University Press. ISBN0231107013.
^Xiaohong, Xia (2018). "Western Heroines in Late Qing Women's Journals: Meiji-Era Writings on "Women's Self-Help" in China". Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century. Cambridge University Press: 236–254. doi:10.1017/9781108304085.019. ISBN9781108304085.
^Dooling, Amy D.; Torgeson, Kristina M. (1998). Writing women in modern China: an anthology of women's literature from the early twentieth century. Columbia University Press. ISBN0231107013.