Brigitte Kwan

Brigitte Kwan

"Brigitte" Kwan (Traditional Chinese: 関秀華; Pinyin: Guān Xìuhuá) was born in Canton, China. Kwan was one of the pioneer Chinese feminists who protested the practice of foot binding (simplified Chinese: 缠足; traditional Chinese: 纏足; pinyin: chánzú, literally "bound feet") and advocated the rights of women in Imperial China. Of Manchu aristocratic lineage, Kwan was born as to an aristocratic family, one of a mixed set of fraternal twins, at the turn of the 20th century.