Legend of Jing Xiong Heroine: Qiu Jin

Author: [Japan] Motoyama Keisuke
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Publish Date: 2007-05-15
Features: ★32-page hardcover, published by Qunyan Press ★Motoyama Keisuke is a Japanese writer and expert in architecture. The preface to this book is written by the renowned Japanese historian Tadashi Hikami and Professor Wang Xiaochun, a senior professor at Peking University ★The book also reveals for the first time the conflicts between Qiu Jin and Lu Xun, Xu Shouchang, and others regarding the suppression of revolutionary activities by the Japanese government against Chinese students, providing material clues for in-depth research on Lu Xun's early thought ★It has readability, data value, and research significance!
A poet and a swordswoman, a life of blood and fire! Qiu Jin, one of the first female revolutionaries in modern China who dedicated herself to democratic revolution. The Legend of Qiu Jin: A Heroine of the People, by the Japanese writer Motoyama Keisuke, comprehensively describes the short yet turbulent life of Qiu Jin in 32 years, referencing and utilizing a vast amount of historical materials and poems, diaries, letters, and memoirs from both China and Japan. Some of the materials are revealed for the first time, making the book highly valuable in terms of data and research.
The book references and utilizes a large amount of historical materials and poems, diaries, letters, and memoirs from both China and Japan, placing Qiu Jin's life against the backdrop of the turbulent history of modern China and the historical perspective of Sino-Japanese relations and the wave of Chinese students studying in Japan in the early 20th century. Through an in-depth, delicate, specific, and vivid narrative, the book tells the entire life of Qiu Jin—from her birth in Xiamen, her time living in Taiwan, her hometown of Shaoxing, her marriage in Hunan, her struggles in Beijing, her studies in Japan, and her dedication to revolution, founding the women's newspaper, preparing for uprisings, until her heroic sacrifice. It presents a clear and complete image of Qiu Jin to us.