Li Wenyi

Li Wenyi
李文宜
Born1903
Wuhan, Qing China
Died1997 (aged 93-94)
People's Republic of China

Li Wenyi (李文宜 1903–1997), born in Wuhan, Hubei, graduated from Hubei Nü Zi Shi Fan Xue Xiao (Hubei Girls’ School of Education), was a Chinese woman activist and politician.[1] Her activism began as early as 1922 as she started to get involved in the Women's Movement Alliance (WMA) to advocate for women's equal rights and political participation in China, promoting female labor protection and education equality.[2] In 1926, she joined Kuomintang (KMT) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and was then expelled by both in 1927, but her contacts with both was maintained throughout her activism. When the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1938, Li Wenyi joined a local women's resistance group to defend her hometown.[3] In 1943, under CCP's commission, Li Wenyi traveled to Kunming, Yunnan and developed her left-wing activism there, founding a women's press, a women's reading group, and academic seminars to educate local women. During the Civil War (1945–1949), Li Wenyi, along with her colleagues, supported the CCP's establishment of a new China and joined the national All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) upon the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Since the establishment of the PRC, Li Wenyi had held various positions in the ACWF, and served various roles in terms of labor protection and within the Democratic League.

  1. ^ "Xin Hua Yue Bao". Xin Hua Yue Bao. 9 (12): 160. 1997.
  2. ^ Liu, Xiaomin (2022). "A Preliminary Attempt of the United Front of the Feminist Movement League and the Feminist Movement of the Communist Party of China". Journal of Jishou University. 43.
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