Inscription for the Founding of China Women’s University[1]

(July 1939)

The day the women of the whole nation rise up will be the time of victory in the War of Resistance.

[1] After the Party Central Committee entered the city of Yan’an in January 1937, it founded the Yan’an China Women’s University. The former site of Yan’an China Women’s University is located on the hillside behind the Party School of the Yan’an Municipal Committee at Wangjiaping, Yan’an. On July 20, 1939, China Women’s University held its formal opening ceremony at the Central Auditorium in Yangjialing. Wang Ming served as president, and all the central leaders attended and delivered speeches. Mao Zedong wrote an inscription for it: The day the women of the whole nation rise up will be the time of victory in the War of Resistance.