Early Life
Kwan was of the ruling Manchu class with Mandarin official ancestors, including Guan Peiyuan, a peer of Kang Youwei.
At a young age, she received an education in Confucian Chinese classics, a rarity for women of the times, who were not traditionally allowed access to education. Although women of the Han Chinese aristocracy and upper bourgeoisie had their feet bound as infants, the female Manchu aristocrats did not conform to this custom, as they exercised greater political power in the society than Han Chinese women did. Not only were Kwan's feet not bound, but she started a movement to encourage Han Chinese women to refrain from the practice in later generations.
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