My Father Mei Lanfang - (Complete Two Volumes)

Author: Mei Shaowu
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: One night in 1957, after my father had just finished performing a play, he was still tireless in writing Forty Years of Stage Life. Under the lamplight, he flipped through a copy of Major Events of the Year Gengzi. In the dead of night, he pointed to a section and said to me, "You should look at this account of the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of Beijing, their atrocities of burning, killing, and looting!" Following my father's guidance, I read Yang Huanghao's record: Within the Imperial City, the slaughter was even more brutal. They shot anyone they encountered, often dragging out a dozen people from a single household and executing them with machine guns in a chain, leaving corpses strewn across the ground and refuse blocking the streets, with people trudging over the dead bodies.