ABSTRACT
Ch'en Hsueh-chao records is one of the better-known women writers in modern China. She was born in Hai-ning District, Chekiang Province. Her father, the principal of a local primary school, had been influenced by the new intellectual trends and was opposed to footbinding. In Paris she continued her studies, married a Chinese medical student, and was European correspondent for the well-known newspaper Ta-kung pao. In 1935 she and her husband returned to China, and in 1940, disillusioned with the Nationalist government and favorably impressed by the Communists, moved to Yenan, the Communist capital. Ch'en's transcription of an interview with a twenty-two-year-old nurse, whom she met at a meeting making preparations to celebrate International Women's Day in 1946. In those days I was a student at the Japanese-run state nursing school of the puppet Manchukuo regime in Harbin. It was the one and only nursing school of the puppet Manchukuo regime. The vast majority of the students were Japanese women.
