The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-07
CHINESE WOMEN
FORGING AHEAD,
SAYS NINE. sun
Daughters Will Be Fifty
Years in Advance of Us


"our grandmothers were five hun
bred years behind the women Of
America, but our daughters will b,
fifty years ahead" says Madame
Sun Yat-sen, the lovely woman of ex-
quisite poise who is the widow Of
the man who founded the Kuomin.
tang, the Chinese Nationalist Party
and who led China's revolution.
Madame Sun is a slender, delicate
creature, but she has force and a
clear, wise mind. She is given the
homage due the first lady of the land
China at the moment has no presi-
dent, but Madame Sun, its first lady,
is a member of the Central Executive
Council of the Kuomintang, the con-
trolling body which defines the pol
icy and directs the government of
Nationalist China.
Training School For Women.
Madame Sun was speaking to the
interviewer about the women's move
ment in China, in general, and, in
particular, of the political training
school for women, which she has
founded in Hankow. In this school,
women leaders will be trained. A
small group of one hundred, very
carefully selected young women will
be trained intensively in the prob
lens Of China and the role of China's
women. They will be given more
than knowledge of problems. They
will be given a technique with which
to solve them, the technique of the
Kuomintang, of nationalist revolu-
ton.
These women leaders will make
real the vision of a free Chinese
womanhood which was part of the
great emancipation program of DR..
Sun Yat-sen," said Madame Sun. cal
ways in his writings and his speeches,
DR.. Sun stressed the point that not
only China's men, but her women, al
so, must be freed. My husband was
not only political and economic rev.
dictionary. He was a feminist rev.
dictionary as well. Wherever he
went, he fought the battle for free
dom of both sexes. Women have sat
around conference tables with the
men who forged the revolution in
1911. They sit around conference
tables today. Within the ranks of
revolutionary leaders, China's wom-
en- have been given, without question
and without struggle, equal rights"
Great Changes Have Come.
Madame Sun spoke of The great
changes in China during the past
twenty years. at is Just an hour
ago, as history is measured, that
China really awoke to the extent Of
her bondage and was stirred with
the resolution to be free" she said.
But in that short hour great chang
es have come. China is transformed,
its women as well as its men. Mo-
theirs find their daughters little
strange today; grandmothers look up
on them as creatures of another
world. But we younger women feel
that there is just touch of envy in
the hearts of the older women, and.
perhaps a timorous applause"
Attend American College.
1t is not without experiences of
other lands that Madame Sun speaks
OF China's women. She has travelled
widely, with her husband, building
up from end to end of the world the
revolutionary force in China. Amer
lea she knows especially we'll, for she
attended college in Macon, Georgia.
Il doubt if you women Of America
can grasp the extent of the change
in China" she said. "In my four
years in college, and later in the larg-
er cities, l came in contact with many
women and with the political and So
cial aims of American women, l saw
a little of the desperate fight for
suffrage and of the present agitation
for equality before the law. / was
always impressed by the determine
ton of Americas women, but, in nv
college days, l was impressed even
more by the thought that the chains
against which they were rebelling
were not half so strong as those that
bound the women of China. In those
days, when looked ahead and
thought Of the long decades that
thought inevitable before Chinese
women could reach even the degree
of freedom of the American women,
| become sad. Complete freedom for
American women seemed just around
the corner; for Chinese women, it
seemed distant, almost a foolish
dream,
Chains Have Been Broken.
But ] was wrong. As strong as
were the chains that bound the wom-
en- Of China just a few years ago,
they have been broken. Our grand
mothers may have been five hundred
years behind the women of America.
but our daughters will be fifty years
ahead. Chinese women, under the
Kuomintang, are wiping out CEN
turtles.
"Yes, it is the Kuomintang that is