国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

Culture

'Shanghai girls' were city's first socialites

By Li Xueqing ( Shanghai Star ) Updated: 2015-01-22 06:41:42

'Shanghai girls' were city's first socialites

Tang Ying (far left) was one of the most glamorous women in old Shanghai. Photo provided by Xu Jingcan to Shanghai Star

They were the first generation of Chinese women to embrace the modern world, becoming icons of style and feminist trail-blazers. Li Xueqing looks at the lives of Shanghai's first socialites.

Shanghai socialites of the 1920s and 1930s were a special group. Elegant, smart and modern, these ladies from families of wealth and power were among the first women in China who were allowed to freely leave the confines of the home for study, work and pleasure. When their families were busying meddling in the politics and markets of Shanghai, they were living their own lives with style and personality.

Yan Youyun, the granddaughter of Yan Xiaofang, the first president of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce, was once nicknamed "Miss 84", because "84" was the number on her car's license plate. Yan was one of the first female graduates of Fudan University. She was famous for driving her own car to campus every day when there were no more than 200 cars in Shanghai.

Like Yan, the well-to-do ladies of her time were rich, well-educated and very modern. Many of them studied at church schools such as the McTyeire School. They were exposed to both Chinese traditions and Western values.

Modern pioneers

It is no coincidence that the first feminist lawsuit in China was filed by one of them. Sheng Aiyi was the seventh daughter of Sheng Xuanhuai, a leading figure in the Westernization movement. She sued her brothers and nephews for depriving her of her share of the family fortune in 1928.

The case became a sensation. It was not only about a lady fighting for her right to inheritance, it was also about women's equal rights to men. Daughters were traditionally excluded from their parents' legacy. This, however, was against the law in the 1920s. Sheng won the case, winning back the lawful shares of money for herself and her younger sister.

Previous Page 1 2 3 Next Page

 
Editor's Picks
Hot words
Most Popular
 
...
宝坻区| 贡嘎县| 紫金县| 沅江市| 浦县| 晋江市| 松江区| 通河县| 湟源县| 阳朔县| 洪泽县| 宝鸡市| 连江县| 奎屯市| 佛冈县| 康平县| 信宜市| 方山县| 东安县| 长海县| 资源县| 朝阳区| 保靖县| 阿克苏市| 方城县| 黔西| 遂平县| 扶风县| 丰镇市| 衡南县| 阳泉市| 芜湖市| 荣昌县| 教育| 福清市| 新兴县| 西安市| 板桥市| 鹤岗市| 固始县| 青川县|