Qiu (秋) is the Chinese word for "autumn." **Qiu Jin (1875-1907)** was the **Chinese revolutionary poet and feminist** — **the first prominent advocate for women's rights in modern China**. **Left her family to study in Japan; returned to found the women's journal *Zhongguo Nü Bao*** and join Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary movement. **Captured leading an uprising against the Qing in 1907, she refused to confess, was beheaded at 32** — declaring "Autumn wind and autumn rain make me sad to death." **"China's Joan of Arc."**
**Honored with a statue at West Lake in Hangzhou.**
Qiu reduces to one — the number of China's Joan of Arc.