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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.”
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
As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN
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