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CHINA said “goodbye to the woman who held up half the sky” after the first female tractor driver and national icon Liang Jun died in Harbin at the age of 90 on Monday after a long illness.
Her son Wang Yanbing said that “she put up a good fight” and passed away peacefully.
Her image, which adorned the 1962 set of the country’s one-yuan notes and many posters, was said to be the “symbol of women in China.”
MAISE RILEY reports on her recent visit to China with a delegation of young communists from Europe and North America to see China’s people-led development
BEN CHACKO welcomes a masterful analysis that puts class struggle back at the heart of our understanding of China’s revolution
STEPHEN BELL reports from a delegation that traced the steps of China’s socialist revolution from its first modest meetings to the Red Army’s epic 9,000km battle to create the modern nation that today defies every capitalist assumption
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE