Hai Chinshua, once a famous! sing-song girl, died at her residence here early this morning, at the 36 of 62. Only recently, a' motion picture company in Shanghai invited her to come to the south to assist in the screening of a story on her life. She declined the invitation, on account of her poor health. Several plays and. novels have been written round her' during recent years—Central News. of one of the best-known sing cong girls in China with a fame stretching back to the days of the foreign occupation of Poking during the Boxer troubles came toa close fon Dee. 4 when Miss Isat Chin-hua, on Friday whan Miss Hsai Chinchuay known as the "Joan of Are of China,"" Sled at the former capita,,, Bomm in Soochow in 1874, Miss Yisai's real name was Chao Ling-fei, but "adopted the "Chin-hua," ["Gokien Flower" as a profssionat fille. "Little is known of her carly ife, but it is) widely' reported. that she' was the daughter of a poate woman who formerly owned a small compan "in Soochow, according' Central News. She became prominent Glring_the inter pore of the Ching Dynasty when ste married Mr. Stung Woncehing as concubine" Sut ae companied him' as the wile of the Fight Chinese "commissioner to Germany tus, the Netherlands and Russia. "She came well-known conte and social etelen for her beauty and personality Following her return to China a few years later her husband, who was Well advanced in age, died. Golden Flower, like all concubines, did not favour with the other members wily and was driven Although she was it Is stated that she did not receive one cent when she left, 'There was nothing else for her te do' but to return to her former profession as a sing-song girl in the famous Chienmen night life district in Peking. Tt was during this Une that she came to play.an. important part in Chinese polities which Inter: made history.
During Occupation Days With "the Aight of the Empress Dowager into the interior following the collapse of the Boxer forees, Li Mung-chang was powerless to check the activities of the foreign troops who marched into the ancient capital. According to records, Golden Flower, who was also in hiding like other women, soon learned that the commander of the German forees was an old friend whom she met in Berlin during her visit there. "She called at headquarters to renew her friendship with the German general and appointed as "purchasing commissioner" for the Allied Troops. During the few weeks she was with the headquarters, she succeeded in persuading the commander to stop the activities of the foreign troops. Credit is given to Miss Heal o occasion' for having saved the property of many' innocent habitants in and stound Pekinx 1 is also stated that Li Hung-chang personally" invited Golden Flower to act as an intermediary in the preliminary negotiations "which "paved. the way to the foal settlement of the Boxer Rebellion, Forgotten fy Court With the foreign troops withdrawn, Miss Hsai was soon forgotten. She was not_even given any recognition by the Chinese authorities Once again she returned to the Chicnmen district, but at this time a [of her old friends and. patrons, who were mostly officials of the Imperial Kiungsu have shown remarkable pro- Court, had left the capital and her business went from. bad. to worse. Mr. Chao Ti-hus, Finance Commis: Just at the end of the Ching Dynasty sloner of Kiangsu, told local press: she sas driven out of Peking as a men upon his return here yesterday result of a murder in her establish-following an inspection trip to that! ment with which she had no cons A Little aver a year ago she turned to Peiping an old, sick' and broken-down woman. She broke into jthe newspapers recently when she was hailed before the Peiping court [to pay her back rent for 10 months amounting to the sum of $60
When it became public that she was living in extreme poverty in the slums in the old capital, Marshal Wu 7 © powerful warlord of North' China and Mr. Mei Lan-fang. ternate impersonator, gave her some money to tide over with her Mnancial An attempt send her to play named after her. portraying th: hectic days of the Boxer Rebeltion, Dut she was unable to go owing to oer health,
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