He-Yin Zhen (1884-1920), who chose to include her mother's maiden name in her own surname in defiance of tradition, was a founding editor of Tianyi (Natural Justice), an influential anarcho-feminist journal (which also carried the earliest Chinese translation of the first chapter of The Communist Manifesto in 1908). They are accompanied by the previously better known essay by Liang Qichao, "On women's education," (1897) and Jin Tianhe's "The women's bell" (1903). The six essays by He-Yin Zhen, which feature the volume, are here published in English for the first time. This is an important collection of translated and annotated texts from the first generation of feminist thinkers in China at the turn of the 20th century. The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory.
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