1. Sai Jinhua was a Chinese prostitute who became the acquaintance of Alfred von Waldersee.
23 Facts About Sai Jinhua
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Sai Jinhua was allegedly born with the name Zhao Lingfei on October 9,1872.
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Sai Jinhua was from Yancheng, Jiangsu and she lived in Suzhou as a child.
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Sai Jinhua first became a prostitute while on a flower boat.
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Sai Jinhua accompanied him for the five year term because Hong Jun's wife was unwilling to travel with him.
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Sai Jinhua had visited St Petersburg, Vienna, The Hague, Paris, and London.
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Sai Jinhua gave birth to her daughter Deguan in 1890.
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In 1894 Sai Jinhua became a prostitute again because Hong Jun's relatives did not support her financially.
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Sai Jinhua became a celebrity since she had been in a relationship with a Chinese envoy to Europe.
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In 1903, along Shaanxi Lane, Sai Jinhua created a Nanban, or a southern prostitute troupe.
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Sai Jinhua capitalized on the rumors of her romance with Waldersee and became very popular.
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In 1905 Fengling, a prostitute working under Sai Jinhua's direction, committed suicide, Authorities charged Sai Jinhua of torturing Fengling, causing her to commit suicide.
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Sai Jinhua was placed in prison due to the charge and spent most of her funds having the charges reduced to manslaughter.
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Sai Jinhua was expelled from Beijing, and therefore banished to her hometown.
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Sai Jinhua died in the beginning of the Republican Era.
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Sai Jinhua adopted the art name Weizhao Lingfei, which used a combination of her family name with that of her husband, to show her devotion to him.
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Wei Sijiong, Sai Jinhua's husband, died shortly afterwards and his family refused to allow Sai Jinhua to share his property.
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Sai Jinhua, who was in poverty at the time of her death, subsisted off of the money curious historians and journalists gave her.
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Sai Jinhua died in 1936, succumbing to an illness at 62 sui.
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The life of Sai Jinhua had been adapted into several films, plays, and television series.
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Sai Jinhua wrote The Wife of Zhuangyuan: Sai Jinhua, which he called her true story.
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Xia Yan's seven act play Sai Jinhua was a popular success and an example of the national defense drama genre.
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Jung Chang wrote that Sai Jinhua was "regarded by many as something of a tragic heroine".