保救大清光緒皇帝女會值理真像

The poster of the Chinese Empire Ladies Reform Association appeared in Victoria in the summer of 1903. At the top centre is a picture of the Guangxu Emperor, who led the movement for political reform in China in mid-1898 (戊戌变法) but became a political prisoner after the reform was suppressed by the conservative faction. Two major participants in the 1898 Reform, Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, appear on the right and left sides of the Guangxu Emperor in the poster because they were major founders and leaders of the Chinese Empire Reform Association. Below the picture of the Guangxu Emperor is the photograph of Kang Tongbi (康同壁), the major founder and leader of the Chinese Empire Ladies Reform Association in Victoria and North America. The lower portion of this poster includes pictures of eighteen local Chinese women, their Chinese names, and their specific positions, such as president, director, treasurer, speaker, secretary, translator, and supervisor. Two pairs of couplets in Chinese on the poster: "讀亞洲女傑史馮嫽持節良玉勤王巾幗雄才繼駟鐵小戎以起 考各國政變書貞德殉邦菲亞除暴裙釵偉烈耀冠裳大陸而來" and "國家興亡 男女同責", call on Chinese women to take on the same responsibility as men for saving the nation of China from crisis, and to follow the examples of heroines in both Chinese and European history, such as Joan of Arc in France and Sophia Lvovna Perovska, an anarchist Russian revolutionary. Dated in Chinese "旅居加拿大属域多利埠 光緒二十九年癸卯仲春立".

In Collection:

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Creator

• Chinese Empire Ladies Reform Association

Subject

• Guangxu, Emperor of China, 1871-1908
• Kang, Tongbi, 1883-1969
• Associations, institutions, etc.
• History
• Chinese Empire Reform Association
• Reform Movement (China : 1898)
• Chinese Empire Ladies Reform Association (Victoria, B.C.)
• Liang, Qichao, 1873-1929
• Kang, Youwei, 1858-1927
• Chinese

Language

• chi

Identifier

• IMG_1000

Date created

• 1903

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 black and white photograph

Alternative title

• The Chinese Empire Ladies Reform Association

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown

Coordinates

• 48.4294, -123.3679
• 48.4359, -123.35155

Physical repository

• Harvard-Yenching Library

Collection

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• black-and-white photographs
• photographs

Is referenced by

• Victoria's Chinatown Project Website: https://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/index.html

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Cataloguing metadata provided by MH. Migration metadata by MT.

Rights

• This image is provided for research use only. This images is provided with the consent of the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University & may not be published without the written permission of the Library.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/1bm9-j128

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