Liao Chengzhi, Selected Paintings by He Xiangning, Zhongguo Shuju, 1997
→Chen Shan, Chronicle Biography of He Xiangning, Guangxi People’s Publishing House, 2016
Rétrospective, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzen, 27 June – 7 October 2018
→He Xiangning art exhibition, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou, du 20 September – 7 October 2012
Chinese revolutionary, politician, feminist activist, and painter.
He Xiangning was born into a wealthy family. Very early on in her childhood, she expressed her resistance to her upbringing and certain customs of the time, such as foot binding, which was considered a sign of beauty in traditional Chinese culture. She convinced her father to let her study, at least for some time, at a private school, just as her brothers had.
In 1897, she married Liao Zhongkai, one of the future leaders of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party), and joined him in Tokyo in 1903. She soon enrolled in the Japan Women’s University and became one of the first Chinese women to take up studies in Japan. She and her husband soon met the Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, considered the “father of modern China”, and were some of the first to join the Tongmenghui, an anti-imperialist revolutionary movement founded in August 1905.