page_title: Zeng Xianzhi
section_title: Revolutionary career
hierarchical_section_title: Zeng Xianzhi / Biography / Revolutionary career
caption_attribution_description: English: Zeng Xianzhi, Born in 1910, died in 1989, this photo was made in 1946 in Chongqing. 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1946年的重庆机场。
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 1927, Zeng went to Guangzhou to help organize the Guangzhou Uprising. She joined the Communist Party of China in 1928. She was a member of the Communist underground party in Shanghai under "legal" cover as a student of South China University. In May 1929 she was arrested by the Nationalist government for participating in anti-government protests. After her release she pursued advanced studies in Japan.
  Zeng returned to China in 1931. In 1937 she worked in Xinhua Daily in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province. Two years later, she was transferred to Guilin as traffic coordinator of the Eighth Route Army. In 1941 she entered the Yan'an Marxism–Leninism College and the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China; after graduation, she worked in the Dihou Gongzuo Department of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央敌后工作部; 中共中央敵後工作部). In the spring of 1946, she attended the Chongqing Negotiations with the Communist delegation. She successively served as secretary of Deng Yingchao and group leader of the Southern Bureau Women's Group (南方局妇女组; 南方局婦女組). In March 1947, she transferred to the Shanxi-Chahaer-Hebei Border Region (晋察冀边区; 晉察冀邊區) and attended the Land Reform Movement (土地改革运动; 土地改革運動).
caption: In 1946, Zeng Xianzhi at Chongqing Airport
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