Madame Wei Tao-Ming

Madame Wei Tao-Ming

Cheng Yu-hsiu (鄭毓秀) (aka Madame Wei Tao-Ming) (1891-1959). She was the first female lawyer and judge in Chinese history.

Biography

She earned her doctoral degree in law at the Sorbonne in France and was the first Chinese person, male or female, to practice law at the French extra-territorial courts in Shanghai. Cheng was also one of the revolutionaries involved in the attempted assassination of military official and politician Yuan Shih-k'ai, commonly reviled in Chinese history for taking advantage of both the Ch'ing imperial court and the Republicans.

She advocated women having their own voices and choices in marriage, and wrote it into the Republic of China's law. She is cited as one of the influences which guided Phan Bội Châu's development of women's rights in Vietnam.

Her autobiography, "My Revolutionary Years" (1944), published while her husband Wei Tao Ming was Ambassador to the United States, is revered as one of the best first hand accounts of modern Chinese history and has been translated into many languages.

Publications

* My Revolutionary Years
* A Girl from China
* Le chèque en Chine
* Le mouvement constitutionnel en Chine étude de droit comparé ...
* Souvenirs d'enfance et de révolution

External Links

* http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=iq4w7jpsYE0C&dq=wei+tao+ming&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Ao7MFksS1a&sig=QbgLk8jyNUfstNXtpYa_nRBDqVg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPP1,M1
* http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3462608&referer=brief_results
* http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38554352&referer=brief_results
* http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3908132&referer=brief_results
* http://cbi-theater-1.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-1/life041943/life041943.html


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