page_title: Zeng Xianzhi
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Zeng Xianzhi / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Zeng Xianzhi, Born in 1910, died in 1989, this photo was made in 1938 in Hong Kong. 中文: 曽宪植，叶剑英的夫人，曾国荃的重孙女。这张照片拍摄于1938年的香港，她和儿子叶选民在一起。
context_page_description: Zeng Xianzhi was a Chinese revolutionary and politician.
  In the late 1920s and early 1930s, girls in schools was a new thing, but Zeng was a member of the girls' basketball team in school. She became a "student soldier" in a branch campus of Whampoa Military Academy. Zeng was one of the first female soldiers in China during the Revolution. After the establishment of the Communist State, she spent over 40 years working in the All-China Women's Federation. She devoted all her life to the Chinese women's rights movement.
context_section_description: In 1928, Zeng married Ye Jianying, who later became one of the founding Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China. They had a son, Ye Xuanning (1938-2016).
caption: In 1938, Zeng holds her son, Ye Xuanning.
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