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Yan Fengying

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397: 346:(1966–1976). Charged with 13 (trumped up) criminal counts of "counterrevolutionary activities" and tortured beyond enduring, she killed herself in 1968. Her death reveals the shocking cruelty and lunacy of that period. After her overdosing on sleeping pills was discovered by her husband Wang Guanya, instead of rushing her to the hospital, the authorities held a 372:
I always remember Yan Fengying's suicide. At that time she was unconscious, tubes all over her body. IV lines, urine catheters. The male doctor just had her exposed like that for everyone to see. She had no clothes on, nude, flesh waiting to be cut up, in full view of a group who could hurt her. She
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to Hefei to "beat up" Wang Guanya because he thought Wang did not protect his wife enough. More people, however, sympathized with Wang, who was himself tortured, and many girls offered to marry him. Until his death in 2013, Wang Guanya never remarried. He spent the rest of his life adapting Yan
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in the title role, became a national hit (and made Ma Lan well known among those who do not listen to opera). One man was so moved by Yan's tragic fate that he sold all his clothes to travel from
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was a specimen stapled on a hospital bed. An electrician intentionally dropped cigarette butt ... At that time I was 9. I was terrified.
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at her bedside. One hospital refused to admit her, and the one that did, reluctantly, refused to treat her without permission from her
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Fengying's repertoire into TV series, radio series, and Huangmei operas for the younger generation.
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Wang Guanya published a biography of her in 1981, and wrote the screenplay of the TV series
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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Twentieth Century (1912–2000)
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Chan, Shirley Wai (2003). "Yan Fengying". In Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (ed.).
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Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution
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Tongcheng
Anhui
Republic of China
Hefei
People's Republic of China
Huangmei opera
dan
Traditional Chinese



Simplified Chinese



Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Chinese name
family name
Yan
Huangmei opera
dan
Chinese opera
Cultural Revolution
struggle session
danwei
Kuomintang
Geling Yan
Hefei

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