Jiang Shufang ({{zh, c=江漱芳, 1867-1928) was a Chinese school pioneer. She belonged to a rich family but was forced to support her spouse, his parents and children alone because her husband refused to work. In 1897 sold her jewelry and founded the Lanling Girls School in

Suzhou Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade ...

, which she managed until 1920: it was the first school for girls in that part of the country and became a role model for other schools for girls, which became more common in China around the year 1900. She was also known as an advocate against

foot binding Foot binding, or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls in order to change their shape and size. Feet altered by footbinding were known as lotus feet, and the shoes made for these feet were kno ...

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* Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911 1867 births 1928 deaths Chinese women's rights activists 19th-century Chinese educators 19th-century Chinese women educators Educators from Suzhou

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