My father Mei Lanfang (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Mei Shaowu
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: One late night in 1957, after my father had just finished performing, he was still tireless in writing "Forty Years of Stage Life." Under the lamplight, he flipped through a copy of "Annals of the Year 1900" and said to me, "You should look at this section about the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of Beijing, their atrocities of burning, killing, and looting!" Following my father's guidance, I read a passage by Yang Huanghao: Inside the Imperial City, the slaughter was even more brutal. People were shot on sight, and entire households, often with a dozen people, were dragged out and shot with machine guns in a row, leaving bodies scattered everywhere, streets choked with refuse, and people trudging over the corpses.