1. Liao Jingwen was assistant to and third wife of artist Xu Beihong.
16 Facts About Liao Jingwen
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Liao Jingwen took the position in 1943, whilst enrolling in the arts and sciences institute of Jinling Women's College that had set-up a campus in Chengdu.
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Liao Jingwen met Xu Beihong in 1942, Liao Jingwen worked as Xu's assistant and soon became Xu's mistress.
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Between 1953 and 1956, Liao Jingwen studied Chinese culture at Peking University.
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In 1956, Liao Jingwen met a young military officer Huang Xinghua, who was 9 years younger than her.
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Liao Jingwen pursued Huang, and the two married in the same year, they had a son.
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In 1957, Liao Jingwen became the head curator and researcher at the Xu Beihong Memorial Museum.
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Liao Jingwen herself was beaten severely several times defending the artworks.
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Liao Jingwen eventually sent a letter via her son to Zhou Enlai, requesting protection for the collection and they were taken to the Forbidden City for safe-keeping.
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The memorial museum was shut down in 1967 to make way for a subway Liao Jingwen wrote to Mao Zedong in 1972 to request that another venue be found for it.
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Liao Jingwen always shown herself as Xu's widow in public, and repeatedly emphasized her "Ture and the only Love" with Xu.
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Liao Jingwen worked as head of Xu Beihong Institute of Painting and participated in the committee of the All-China Women's Federation, representing them at the seventh and eighth sessions of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Liao Jingwen was a trustee of the Xu Beihong International Foundation.
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Liao Jingwen's calligraphy was exhibited around China in 2015 as part of an exhibition for the 120th anniversary of Xu Beihong's birth.
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Liao Jingwen had two children with Xu Beihong: a son called Qingping, born in 1947; and a daughter called Fangfang, born in 1948.
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Liao Jingwen has one son with Huang Xinghua, called Liao Honghua.