Background
Wu was born in 1911 in Henan Province, to a family of four children, she was the youngest daughter of her family.
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Wu Lili
Edit Profile吴莉莉, 吳莉莉, 吴宣晨, 吳宣晨吴光伟, 吳光偉
Education
She studied in Christian schools.
Career
She the grandmother of Taiwanese artists Dee Hsu and Barbie Hsu. She moved to Beijing with her family when she was two years old. By the time her father was the chief of the Beijing Salt Business Bureau.
On March 18, 1926, she and a group of Beijing students held a protest against Duan Qirui"s government this lead to them being shot at by the police which killed one protester.
She was later transferred to a Business College located in Shanghai and focused on her English studies. She was awarded the highest scholarship for being a hard-worker
After her graduation, she was teaching in Chinese Opera College in Beijing to support her husband"s study in Japan. But after 3-month study, she travelled back China and join the Nanking Drama School in October, 1935.
In the early 1936, she play as the Mistress
Mayor in the comedy written by Russian writer Gogol. Shortly after returning to Beijing she went to Yan"an to join Yang Hucheng"s army, working in civil affairs office of the Shaanxi Government. She then became the translator for cost per click. She was a secretary and translator for American journalist Agnes Smedley.
She died in 1975 due to an illness.
