今天,女性当众演讲似乎已成平常事,她们的伶牙俐齿和敏捷思维使其巾帼不让须眉。众所周知的是,民国领袖蒋介石的夫人宋美龄在美国和国内各地的演讲,是蒋介石延续其统治的重要原因之一。为人不知的是,在蒋介石主导的南京国民政府建立前三十年,由于中国女性地位低下,几乎所有的公共场合均没有女性发言的机会。这种不公平的历史,在1901年3月15日被一个来自今珠海地区的女孩——薛锦琴改变。 Today, women’s public speaking seems to have become commonplace, their eloquent and agile thinking so that it does not allow men and women. It is well known that the speech by Soong Mei-ling, the wife of the Republic of China leader Chiang Kai-shek, in the United States and elsewhere in the country is one of the important reasons for Chiang Kai-shek to continue his rule. What people do not know is that in the first three decades prior to the establishment of the Chiang Kai-shek government-led Nanjing National Government, there was no chance for women to speak in almost all public places due to the low status of Chinese women. This unfair history was changed on March 15, 1901 by a student from the present Zhuhai area, Xue Jinqin.