Her father died when she was just 12 years old, in 1926, and her mother took her to live with her uncle in Tianjin where she worked as a child laborer in a cigarette factory for several months.
Her father died. She was just 12 years old. This was in 1926. Her mother took her to live with her uncle in Tianjin where she worked as a child laborer in a cigarette factory for several months.