ABSTRACT
The separation of the sexes as people find it in China prevents any social system such as they have in Europe or the west. Women, for the sake of the preservation of their virtue, have no social intercourse with men. In ancient times, women were appointed commissioners for the collection of poetry from the people. As a matter of fact a large number of women have distinguished themselves as poets. It was a Chinese woman, contemporaneous with the Apostle Paul, who wrote the first book that was ever written anywhere in the world for the instruction of girls: the Lady Tsao. The first woman's daily newspaper ever published was edited and published in Peking by Mrs. Chang. The Chinese themselves, under the energetic leadership of the Princess Kalachin, have organized a club called Nu tzu tzu chen ch'ung shih hui, The Women's Mutual Improvement Club, for the discussion of questions specially interesting to women.
