Dai Ailian—My Art and Life

Author: Luo Bin Wu Jingzhu
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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, it was marked by repeated 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 success in her studies, she (resolutely 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 Cultural Revolution, she was falsely accused of numerous baseless charges and endured countless inhumane humiliations and tortures, such as public criticism, home searches, and forced labor; And how did she cope with the setbacks in her marriage?