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MILITIA WOMEN

INSCRIPTION ON A PHOTOGRAPH

--a chueh chu

February 1961

How bright and brave they look, shouldering five-foot rifles

On the parade ground lit up by the first gleams of day.

China's daughters have high-aspiring minds,

They love their battle array, not silks and satins.


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