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**Tcheng Yu-hsiu** was a [feminist](Feminism "wikilink"), the first
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female [lawyer and judge](Law "wikilink") in Chinese history and
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[anarchist](Anarchism "wikilink")
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[revolutionary](List_of_Libertarian_Socialists "wikilink").
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## Life
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### Early Life
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Tcheng was at first home-schooled and then enrolled at a formal school
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in Beijing. She refused to have her feet bound or to marry the man
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picked by her grandfather. Her family sent her to a mission school in
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Tianjin, where she learned English but refused the religion.
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### Political Radicalisation
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In 1912, she met the anarchist and revolutionary organizer [Li
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Shizeng](Li_Shizeng "wikilink") and enrolled in the school to prepare to
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go to France on the Diligent Work Frugal Study program. The school was
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the first in China to be co-educational. She was one of the handful of
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women to go to [France](French_Republic "wikilink") on the program. She
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wrote later that she and Li were part of a terrorism cell which was
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involved in the attempted assassination of the emperor of China.
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### Later Life
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In Paris, she worked with the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace
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Conference and received her doctorate of law from the
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[University](University "wikilink") of Paris in 1926. She married the
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lawyer Wei Tao-ming and they moved to Shanghai to establish a law firm.
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She became a the first female judge in
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[China](People's_Republic_of_China "wikilink"). She died of cancer in
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San Francisco, 1959.\[1\]
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## Influences
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Her writings are widely credited with influencing the implementation of
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women's rights into law in
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[Vietnam](Socialist_Republic_of_Vietnam "wikilink").\[2\]
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## References
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<references />
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1. [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") -
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcheng_Yu-hsiu>
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