Fu Yuanhui
Chinese Olympian swimmer
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Geling Yan
Chinese author
Annie Wong
Chinese-Canadian artist
Zhang Shan
For twenty years, men and women competed together in skeet shooting at the Olympics. But after Zhang Shan won the gold in 1992, the International Shooting Union suddenly felt it necessary to prevent women from shooting against the men, with a separate women’s event established for the 2000 Olympics.
Li Qingzhao
Song dynasty poet Li Qingzhao wrote in depth about how much she loved alcohol, which was widely deemed inappropriate for a woman, as was the fact that she dared to divorce a man who mistreated her.
Lu Wenyu
Chinese architect
Fang
Fang, who lived during the first century BCE, was the earliest recorded woman alchemist in China. She reputedly discovered a way to turn mercury into silver—one interpretation is that she used a chemical technique to extract silver from ores using mercury.
Tan Yunxian
One of China’s most famous women doctors, active in the 1400s and 1500s
Xiao Lu
Chinese performance and installation artist
Coral Wong Pietsch
On March 30, 2001, Coral Wong Pietsch became the first female Asian American general officer in the Army and the first female general officer of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps’ (JAG) 230-year history.