**Tcheng Yu-hsiu** was a [feminist](Feminism "wikilink"), the first
female [lawyer and judge](Law "wikilink") in Chinese history and
[anarchist](Anarchism "wikilink")
[revolutionary](List_of_Libertarian_Socialists "wikilink").

## Life

### Early Life

Tcheng was at first home-schooled and then enrolled at a formal school
in Beijing. She refused to have her feet bound or to marry the man
picked by her grandfather. Her family sent her to a mission school in
Tianjin, where she learned English but refused the religion.

### Political Radicalisation

In 1912, she met the anarchist and revolutionary organizer [Li
Shizeng](Li_Shizeng "wikilink") and enrolled in the school to prepare to
go to France on the Diligent Work Frugal Study program. The school was
the first in China to be co-educational. She was one of the handful of
women to go to [France](French_Republic "wikilink") on the program. She
wrote later that she and Li were part of a terrorism cell which was
involved in the attempted assassination of the emperor of China.

### Later Life

In Paris, she worked with the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace
Conference and received her doctorate of law from the
[University](University "wikilink") of Paris in 1926. She married the
lawyer Wei Tao-ming and they moved to Shanghai to establish a law firm.
She became a the first female judge in
[China](People's_Republic_of_China "wikilink"). She died of cancer in
San Francisco, 1959.\[1\]

## Influences

Her writings are widely credited with influencing the implementation of
women's rights into law in
[Vietnam](Socialist_Republic_of_Vietnam "wikilink").\[2\]

## References

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1.  [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") -
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcheng_Yu-hsiu>
2.