ABSTRACT
The magazine was less radical than many of the other magazines on women's issues and women's rights put out at the time, such as Qiu Jin's Zhongguo nubao. Like many others at the time, the magazine demanded equality between the sexes and advocated equal rights for women. Xu was one of a number of authors who used the language of rights to advocate the liberation of women. She sees the right to freedom as central to women's ability to respect themselves, and believes that the right to freedom, in turn, rests on possessing what she calls "the qualifications for freedom". In light of the attacks that rights thinkers will subsequently level at Confucianism, it is notable that Xu quotes Confucius quite favorably. Other women were more radical and more political than Xu; the anarchist He Zhen, for example, advocated a more thorough going social revolution as the best path to realizing women's freedom.
