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词条 Wu Lili
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  1. Early life

  2. Early career

  3. Time in Yenan

  4. Later life

  5. References

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Wu Lili ({{zh|s=吴莉莉|t=吳莉莉}}; 1911–1975), also known as Wu Xuanchen ({{zh|s=吴宣晨|t=吳宣晨}}), Lily Wu or Wu Guangwei ({{zh|s=吴光伟|t=吳光偉}}), was a translator and English teacher of Mao Zedong.

Early life

Wu was born in 1911 in Henan Province, to a family of four children, she was the youngest daughter of her family. She moved to Beijing with her family when she was two years old.

By the time her father was the chief of the Beijing Salt Business Bureau. She studied in Christian schools. On March 18, 1926, she and a group of Beijing students held a protest against Duan Qirui's government. This led to them being shot at by the police which killed one protester. She was later transferred to a Business College located in Shanghai and focused on her English studies. She was awarded the highest scholarship for being a hard-worker. After this she travelled back to Beijing, and on March 1, 1934, she married Zhang Yantian (张砚田) at this time she was studying in Beijing Normal University.

Early career

After her graduation, she was teaching in Chinese Opera College in Beijing to support her husband's study in Japan. She then went to Japan following her husband. But after 3-month study, she travelled back China and join the Nanking Drama School in October, 1935. In the early 1936, she play as the Mrs. Mayor in the comedy written by Russian writer Gogol.

Time in Yenan

Shortly after returning to Beijing she went to Yan'an to join Yang Hucheng's army, working in civil affairs office of the Shaanxi Government. She then became the translator for CPC. She was a secretary and translator for American journalist Agnes Smedley. In this role, she often translated conversations between Smedley and Mao Zedong. Mao's wife He Zizhen suspected a romance with Mao, and made a public scene over this.[1] This led to Mao divorcing He Zizhen, while Wu Lili was banished from Yenan and sent with other women to join a flying squadron of propagandists attached to the army.

Later life

She died in 1975 due to an illness.

References

1. ^Price, Ruth. The Lives of Agnes Smedley. Oxford University Press 2005. Pages 313-317

4 : 1911 births|1975 deaths|Taiwanese people from Henan|People of the Republic of China

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