RIP Liang Jun

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The tractor driving figure featured on China's one yuan bill has passed away, aged ninety. Liang Jun was the country’s first female tractor driver. She was widely viewed as a symbol of Mao Zedong’s popular proclamation, “Women hold up half the sky,” often invoked to urge women to work outside the domestic sphere.

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