She led an army of women against Qing forces, fought her whole life for women’s rights, and even slapped the country’s top leaders for failing to commit to gender equality—meet Tang Qunying
August 25, 1912, was a historic day. Revolution had just swept away 2,000 years of imperial rule, and China’s leaders gathered in Beijing for the founding conference of the Kuomintang—the country’s new ruling party.