Chang Mo-chun

Zhang Mojun (張默君, born Zhang Zhaohan, October 5, 1884, in Hunan – January 1965) was a Chinese politician, women's rights activist, military commander, and poet. She was the first female member of the Kuomintang Central Committee. :38,

Biography Zhang Mojun was the daughter of a Qing dynasty official, Zhang Tongdian (Bochun, Tianfang louzhu, 1859–1915), and He Chenghui (Yisheng, 1857–1941). :310 Her mother He Chenghui educated her in shi poetry from an early age, and she began writing early. Yu Youren praised her work: "Heart and hand are as one, the ink penetrating deep into the paper, the brush-tip guiding and pacifying the ink. A comparable to any other; I never tire of viewing it."

Political activism

Revolutionary work She organized the Shanghai Women's Northern Expedition Dare-to-die Company (Shanghai nüzi beifajun gansidui, 上海女子北伐軍敢死隊), a women's army that fought in the uprisings of the 1910s. There were over seventy students enrolled. :50

She was a founder and leader of the Shenzhou Women's Assistance Society (also Shenzhou United Women's Assistance Society), a group dedicated to gender equality that was established in 1912. Zhang Mojun founded the associated yet short-lived Shenzhou Women's Journal (1912–1913), which criticized the regime of Yuan Shikai.

Educational work Zhang Mojun founded the Shenzhou Girls' School in 1912, with funding received from Sun Yat-Sen.

In 1918, she was sent to Europe and America by the Ministry of Education to research women's educational opportunities. :151 While in America, she enrolled at Columbia University and was elected president of the New York Students' Association. Upon her return to China, she served in various roles as an education specialist in the government, including as a member of the Kuomintang Higher Examination Standards Committee (1929).

Later life She moved to Taiwan in 1948 and continued to work for the Kuomintang including as a member of the Central Control Committee. She died in 1965 at age eighty-two.