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Qiu Jin is undoubtedly the most famous woman in twentieth-century China. Since her death in Shaoxing on July 15, 1907 (June 6 in the lunar calendar), Qiu Jin is the only person in the female world who has been widely known and paid constant attention to by the world in the past hundred years, and who truly deserves to be said to "live in people's hearts". Discussions and narrations about Qiu Jin have never stopped. This book is a collection of thirteen articles about Qiu Jin written by Professor Xia Xiaohong over more than twenty years. Based on a careful combing of Qiu Jin's historical materials, the author explains Qiu Jin's experiences, life encounters, thoughts, spread of poetry and works, and the evolution of his image, and presents readers with the centuries-old political situation and academic trends implicit in it.

This book selects three perspectives: female society, female models, and female death from emerging newspaper texts in the late Qing Dynasty. Through an investigation of the lives and concepts of women in the late Qing Dynasty, this book specifically explores the complex entanglements between women in the late Qing Dynasty and the development of modern Chinese society and thought. The author attempts to shift the reading perspective from the official to the private sector by entering newspapers and periodicals, and thereby return to the scene. This effort is concretely implemented in this book through the analysis of ten cases and the meticulous processing of historical materials, in order to vividly display a certain scene in late Qing society, and thereby reveal the various cultural dynamics hidden therein. The first part, "Female Society", uses a case-by-case integration approach to reflect the new changes in women's lifestyles and ideologies in the late Qing Dynasty; the middle part, "Female Models", aims to outline the personality ideals of women in the late Qing Dynasty and aims to show that advanced women have a spiritual world that is different from the traditional one; the second part, "Women's Death", is about the different ways and causes of death of three women who died at the beginning of the last century, as well as the different social turmoil caused by them. The author believes that the resulting picture of late Qing society actually contains various signs of the emergence of modern society and modern thought. The author of this book uses a broad vision and meticulously manipulates newspaper historical materials that are not valued by academic circles to vividly reproduce various pictures of late Qing society, and unexpectedly and convincingly outlines the trajectory of new changes in late Qing society and thought from a unique perspective.