Hi Allan:
Yes, remember "The nightingale" and Sorolla's words:
Get out and get busy!
The great poet Qu Yuan
http://home.att.net/~bobcindy/Qu_Yuan.html
was killed himself at the same place called Miluo where is Ren Bishi's hometown. A giant statue to Ren Bishi is there.
There are at least three statues are to my family connection:
One of the best known heroines, Zhao Yiman
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/peo...um/index39.htm
is Ren's sister-in-law. A 1950's movie is about her. Sadly, her son was severely persecuted in the Cultural Revolution, at the land his mother fought for.
Xiang Jingyu, the best feminist of revolution, treated my grandmother as her sister.