Ji Qingyi

Born in 1904, Ji was originally from Xian County in Hebei province. After being educated at Heihe Number 1 Primary School, she attended Qiqihar Number 1 Women's Teacher's College and then attended a foundation course at Peking Normal University, after which she studied in the Department of Political Science at Peking University. She subsequently worked as a teacher, as well as editing a supplement in North China Daily and serving as editor-in-chief of New Northeast, a bimonthly publication of Peking University. In 1932 she opened a law firm, becoming the first woman lawyer in Peking. She became Executive Director of the Peking Lawyers Association and established the Xinsheng Women's Vocational School.

Ji was a delegate to the 1946 Constituent National Assembly [zh] that drew up the constitution of the Republic of China. She was subsequently a candidate in Heilongjiang Province in the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan, in which she was elected to parliament.^[1] She remained in China after the Chinese Civil War and her membership of the Legislative Yuan was cancelled in 1966. She later worked as a librarian at the Beijing Municipal Research Centre for Literature and History. She died in 1998.