Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — WOMEN IN CHINA [ARTICLE]

WOMEN IN CHINA

All women are not degraded in China. Witness the Dowager Empress, who rose, by the force of her own will, from the position of a slave to that of ruler over the most populous nation on the globe. Notwithstanding the prejudice against the sex among the Mongols women occasionally break through the barriers and achieve distinction. In Shanghai, the metropolis of the most coveted section of that vast empire, is a temple erected in honor of Huang, a woman deified for her great service to her people, and Chinese men do not disdain to worship before her image.