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. . .”when we look at recent history of Chinese women, we might ask: what is the extent of our progress over the last few years? Five or six years ago, we didn’t know what ‘restoration’ was; had the word ‘revolution’ had never even reached our ears or dwelt in our thoughts. Indeed, we didn’t know what an ‘association’ or ‘organization’ was.
—Chen Xiefen (1904)