Come closer to the past

Author: Lü Dayu
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Publish Date: 1999-06-01
Features: At a young age, Lü Dayu was honored to present flowers to Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and foreign heads of state due to her unique temperament and beautiful appearance. At the age of ten, she starred in the film The Flowers of the Motherland, and its theme song Let's Row Our Pairs of Oars is still widely sung today. In 1960, at the age of sixteen, she emerged as the top candidate among numerous competitors, securing a spot at China Central Television (CCTV) and becoming one of the first generation of television anchors alongside Shen Li and Zhao Zhongxiang. They spent their youth together, contributing to the pioneering of China's television industry. However, the start of the Cultural Revolution distorted normal human relationships and directly impacted Lü Dayu's personal fate. She was labeled a "counter-revolutionary" for allegedly "shooting at the Central Cultural Revolution Committee" and subsequently faced the fate of being sent to the "cattle shed" and the "school for re-education through labor," enduring hardships and struggles. In 1978, having been exonerated, Lü Dayu accompanied Deng Xiaoping on a visit to Japan. Dressed in a full white suit and leather shoes, she became a sensation in Japan, being hailed as the "White Angel," "Beijing Lover," and the "second most important figure in Deng Xiaoping's delegation." "The world is vast and unpredictable," Lü Dayu never imagined that at the age of forty, she would leave her homeland and travel far away, marking the end of her first half of life with a sentence that reads, "I want to speak but cannot." This book is written with sincere emotions, sharp wit, and heart-wrenching honesty, leaving readers unable to put it down.