摘要
ONE of the many outstanding women in Chinese history is Kong Sizhen - the Han princess who devoted her life to upholding the 268-year-long Manchu Qing Dynasty ( 1644-1911 ).
ONE of the many outstanding women in Chinese history is Kong Sizhen - the Han princess who devoted her lite to upholding the 268-year-long Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Kong Sizhen, daughter of Han general Kong Youde. is immortalized in the name Gongzhufen (tomb of the princess). a district and subway station at the western end of Beijing's Chang'an Avenue. Kong Sizhen was the only woman ever to have been entrusted with the post of chief imperial guard, or to have been given command of troops de fending the southwestern border. Her spirit of self-sacrifice is regarded with similar reverence as that of Joan of Ark of France and Elizabeth I of England.
