Tang Qunying

Tang Qunying (; 8 December 18713 June 1937) was the first female member of the Tongmenghui (Chinese Revolutionary Alliance), a secret society and underground resistance movement founded in Tokyo, Japan by Sun Yat-sen and Song Jiaoren in 1905. Tang has been cited as one of the "best-known women activists in modern Chinese history".

She was chairwoman of the Women's Suffrage Alliance, an organization created by the merger of the Nanjing Women's Alliance, the Women's Backup Society, the Women's Martial Spirit Society, and the Women's Suffrage Comrades' Alliance in 1912. In 1913, she founded Women's Rights Daily, Hunan's first newspaper for women.

For her contributions in overthrowing the ruling dynasty in China, Sun Yat-sen personally met her and acclaimed her work. She was later awarded a second-class Order of the Precious Brilliant Golden Grain.

While playing a leading role as a female member of the resistance movement in Japan, she established the Journal of Association of Chinese Female Students to promote revolutionary activities in China. She was also responsible for establishing the Ten-day Vernacular Newspaper for Women and restarted publication of Chinese Women Report. In Hunan, in 1913, she started the Women's Rights Daily, which was the first of its kind. Advocacy of women's studies by Tang Qunying and Shen Peizhen resulted in Qunying establishing schools for Hunan's female community, apart from many girls' schools.

Awards Apart from the Jiahe (Golden Harvest) Medal, she was also honoured with the title of "heroine of her times" in 1991 by the former vice-chairman of the 5th CPPCC National Committee and honorary president of the All-China Women's Federation. In 1999, she was given a pride of place as one of the "eight outstanding Chinese women over a century" during the 4th World Conference on Women.