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Shangguan Yunzhu

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Actress

The Resume

    (March 2, 1920-November 23, 1968)
    Born in Jiangyin, China
    Birth name was Wei Juniuo
    Appeared in the films ‘Fallen Rose’ (1941), ‘Long Live the Missus!’ (1947), ‘Spring River Flows East’ (1947), ‘Myriad of Lights’ (1948), ‘Crows and Sparrows’ (1949), ‘Women Side by Side’ (1949), ‘Storm on the Southern Island’ (1955), ‘Early Spring in February’ (1963), and ‘Stage Sisters’ (1965)
    Committed suicide by jumping from her seventh floor apartment

Why she might be annoying:

    She was married and divorced three times, with her last two marriages lasting less than two years each.
    She was Mao Zedong’s mistress.
    She allegedly haunts the apartment whose window she jumped out of. (Neighbors claim that in autumn her favorite scents, ylang-ylang and neroli oil, can be smelled in the hallway outside her door.)

Why she might not be annoying:

    She and her family fled for Shanghai after the Japanese army attacked her hometown and her sister was killed in a bombing raid.
    She underwent operations for breast cancer and a brain tumor in the two years before her death.
    Mao’s wife, Jiang Qing, used the Cultural Revolution to harass her in revenge for her affair.
    She was badly beaten by Qing’s followers.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying