Dai Ailian: My Art and Life

Author: Dai Ailian
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: This book presents a real Dai Ailian to us—a tireless dancer, an independent, sincere, optimistic, lively, and resilient woman. However, her life was not always filled with success; instead, she experienced countless losses: in her teens, her father gradually went bankrupt due to gambling, turning her from the daughter of a wealthy overseas Chinese merchant into a poor student who had to rely on part-time jobs to barely make ends meet; after achieving her education, she abandoned the opportunity to develop a career in the UK and chose to return to her war-torn homeland to participate in the anti-Japanese salvation movement; shortly after her marriage, she lost her ability to bear children due to illness; during the wartime displacement, she lost all her belongings several times; during the Cultural Revolution, she was falsely accused of numerous baseless charges and endured countless inhuman humiliations and tortures, such as public criticism, home searches, and forced labor; and how did she cope with the setbacks in her marriage?