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Kang Tongbi
Kang Tongbi or Kang Tung Pih (; 1887–1969) was the daughter of Kang Youwei, a Chinese reformer and political figure of the late Qing dynasty and early Republican era.
Early life.
She was born in 1887 to Kang Youwei's first wife, Zhang Yunchu (as a scholar from a relatively wealthy family in traditional China, Kang kept several wives and concubines). She was Zhang Yunchu's second daughter. Official documents in the US indicate that her birth was on February 5, 1888, using
folded, Kang Tongbi continued to crusade for women's rights. Like her father, she took a stand against the practice of foot-binding, establishing and co-leading a "Tianzuhui" (Natural Feet Society) with other Chinese feminists that served as a base of operations for their activities. She was part of the effort to organize the various Shanghai women's groups into a united Shanghai Women's Association, which petitioned the Nationalist government in Nanjing for a new constitution under the slogan, “Down with the warlords and