A woman most people are probably not familiar with! She was a revolutionary martyr, a poet, and an early Chinese feminist. She joined forces with Sun Yat-sen. I am not sure whether she was more republican or communist. Maybe we will never know, because she was executed at age 31 by imperial forces.
Qiu Jin - Wikipedia (1875-1907)
Here is a recent New York Times article about her (I did not read the whole article):
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