Great Nanjing Women

The Feng Shui Lady who did Oprah; Angi Ma Wong

Angi Ma Wong was one of the world's best known and successful Asian Americans, held in high regard as a businesswoman, a leading expert on Feng Shui and a 26-year survivor of breast cancer. Angi Ma Wong是世界上最著名和最成功的亚裔美国人之一,作为女商人、风水的领先专家和26年的乳腺癌幸存者而备受尊重。 Born in Nanjing on...

#MeToo Ming! A Shining Star among Qinhuai’s Debutantes; Ma Xianglan

Ma Shouzhen (馬守真) was the foremost product of the #MeToo movement of the late Ming Dynasty. A courtesan, party animal and a hopeless romantic, she was known as a prolific painter, a benevolent citizen and one of the eight...

A Life of Public Service for Women; Pauline Woo Tsui

Pauline Woo Tsui was at her core an anti-discrimination activist who sought to correct the wrongs brought on the female sex in many theaters, from the USA to China. Pauline Woo Tsui的核心是一位反歧视活动家,她试图纠正从美国到中国的许多剧院中女性行为带来的错误。 Born in Nanjing on 2 October, 1920, Woo’s father...

Stir-Fry Creator who couldn’t Boil an Egg; Yang Buwei

Yang Buwei (杨步伟) was the lady who coined the term “Stir Fry”, in a landmark, war-time recipe book on Chinese cuisine that would stop just short of earning her a Nobel Peace Prize. 杨步伟(杨步伟)是一位在一本具有里程碑意义的战时中国菜食谱中创造了“炒菜”一词的女士,这让她刚刚获得诺贝尔和平奖。 Born in Nanjing in 1889, Yang was...

Silver Screen’s Champ of Gender Equality & Communism; Wang Ping

Wang Ping (王苹) was PRC’s first female film director and an ambassador for the communist movement’s empowering of gender equality, utilising film as a propaganda art form that would see Wang reach her zenith with 1965’s “The East is...

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