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178:(founder of the Women's Support Association) in Nanjing 20 February 1912. At the time, the Chinese Empire had been abolished and the Constitution of the new Republic of China was due to be written. Women activists were concerned that women's equal rights and suffrage be included in the constitution of the new republic. When there were signs that this was not the case, women organized under Tang Qunying to lobby their cause to the Parliament. It was an 36: 282:
was presented to the parliament 11 March 1912 and did not include women suffrage, the suffragists left their seats in the gallery and stormed the parliamentary sets in demonstration. The next day, they were barred from entering and organised a demonstration to protest. In April 1912, they organised a
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supported the demands of the organisation, but informed Tang Qunying that despite his personal support, it was impossible to get her demands through parliament because the majority was against them, and advised her to view women suffrage a long-term goal which had to be postponed, and instead focus
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Government in Nanjing in 1928, a national women's movement could organise again for the first time since the closure of the Women's Suffrage Alliance in 1913, and women's suffrage was finally included in the new Constitution of 1936, although the constitution was not implemented until 1947.
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proved to be much more hostile to women's rights: in March 1913, he banned the Women's Suffrage Alliance and issued an arrest warrant for Tang Qunying, which was to be the end of the first wave of women suffrage activism in China.
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During the presidency of Yuan Shikai and the following years of fragmentation in China, no national women's movement was possible. In some parts of China, however, local women's movements organised after the foundation of
309:(UWA) in 1919, and managed to introduce women suffrage in the local constitutions of Hunan and Guangdong (1921) and Sichuan (1923), were women were elected to the local parliaments. When China was unified under the 283:
congress and printed a manifesto of suffrage which was distributed across China. When male suffrage was passed in parliament 10 August 1912, sixty suffragists stormed the parliament in protest.
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on making women ready for suffrage at a later date by making better education available for them. President
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