Burying Autumn General K-12 School Samanta Schweblin

Samanta Schweblin

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Sight words

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Burying Autumn General K-12 School Samanta Schweblin"Autumn wind, autumn rain, fill my heart with sorrow" these were the last words of Qiu Jin (18751907), written before she was beheaded for plotting to overthrow the Qing empire. Eventually, she would be celebrated as a Republican martyr and China's first feminist, her last words committed to memory by schoolchildren. Yet during her lifetime she was often seen as eccentric, even deviant; in her death, and still more in the forced abandonment of her