Liang Jun (activist)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Liang.

Liang Jun (Chinese: 梁 軍,; pinyin: Liáng Jūn; born 1945) is a Chinese activist and teacher, who has campaigned for women's right to education in China, as well as being a co-founder of both the Henan Community Education Research Centre and China's first women's history museum, the Henan Women and Children Activity Center.

Biography

Liang was born in Yiyang county in Henan in 1945.^[1] She graduated from Beijing Normal University's History Department in 1968.^[1] From 1985 she subsequently taught at Henan Women Cadres School, where she was eventually promoted to the role of Vice President.^[2][1][3] During her time as a teacher she travelled to rural communities talking to women, and giving lectures to professional bodies such as the Women Technical Workers^' Association, the Women Cadres' Association, the Women^'s Teachers^' Association, and the Women Medical Workers^' Association.^[4][5][6]

An advocate for women's rights in China since the 1980s,^[7] and in particular the right to education, in 1998 Liang co-founded the Henan Community Education Research Centre.^[2][8] The centre worked to support women in rural areas to establish cooperatives, as well as campaigning against domestic violence, and other issues.^[3] She has also worked with people who are HIV positive, and established the Red Ribbon Association.^[2] She was later appointed Vice President of Zhengzhou University International Friendship Women's College.^[3]

Liang has also worked as an oral historian, collecting testimonies for China's first women's history museum, the Henan Women and Children Activity Center, which she co-founded with Li Xiaojiang and others.^[2][9]

Selected publications

• Li Xiaojiang, and Liang Jun. "The Contradictory Aspects of Women Cadres' State of Mind and Social Adjustments: Also on Certain Issues Involving Construction of the Ranks of Women Cadres." Chinese Sociology & Anthropology 20.3 (1988): 52–68.^[10]
• Liang Jun. "The Prevention and Cure of AIDS in Rural Areas: Experiences in Community Intervention." Chinese Sociology & Anthropology 40.4 (2008): 90-96.^[11]

References

1. Committee on Women's Studies in Asia (1995). Changing lives : life stories of Asian pioneers in women's studies. Internet Archive. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York. ISBN 978-1-55861-108-5.
2. "Search". PeaceWomen Across the Globe. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
3. . 7 March 2021. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
4. Hsiung, Ping-Chun. "The women’s studies movement in China in the 1980s and 1990s." Education, culture, and identity in twentieth-century China (2001): 430-449.
5. Hsiung, Ping-Chun; Jaschok, Maria; Milwertz, Cecilia (26 May 2020). Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-18482-2.
6. Xiaojiang, Li (1 January 1996). "Creating a Public Sphere: A Self-Portrait in the Women's Studies Movement of China". Asian Journal of Women's Studies. 2 (1): 70–112. doi:10.1080/12259276.1996.11665777. ISSN 1225-9276.
7. Fangqin, Du (1997). "My Way into Women's Studies". Asian Journal of Women's Studies. 3 (1): 133–160. doi:10.1080/12259276.1997.11665789. ISSN 1225-9276.
8. Zhu, Ping; Xiao, Hui Faye (28 December 2021). Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-5526-8.
9. Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui (1999). Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-3146-9.
10. Xiaojiang, Li; Jun, Liang (1 April 1988). "The Contradictory Aspects of Women Cadres' State of Mind and Social Adjustments". Chinese Sociology & Anthropology. 20 (3): 52–68. doi:10.2753/CSA0009-4625200352. ISSN 0009-4625.
11. Jun, Liang (1 July 2008). "The Prevention and Cure of AIDS in Rural Areas: Experiences in Community Intervention". Chinese Sociology & Anthropology. 40 (4): 90–96. doi:10.2753/CSA0009-4625400407. ISSN 0009-4625. S2CID 147260073.

External links

• Henan Women and Children Activity Center
• Henan Community Center for Education and Research