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Member of the Shanghai Artists Association
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1903
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Lu Xiaoman 陆小曼, alias Xiaomei ( 1903-1965 ) was born in September in Shanghai,
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and grew up in Changzhou, in the province of Jiangsu, China.
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She wrote and painted, from an early age.
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She studied at Beijing Girl's Junior High, High Beijing Sacred Heart School
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and also in France. |
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Fluent in English and French, she was employed as an interpreter by the Minister
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of Foreign Affairs.
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- Writer, ( prose, poetry, fiction ) she never published her writings.
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- Opera singer, she stood out from the start on stage.
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- Painter, she studied with Liu Haisu, Chen Banding, He Tianjian, and specialized
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in paintings of landscapes, flowers and birds.
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1920
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She married Wang Ge (1895 -1945), a suitor chosen by her mother.
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Shortly after, she met the young poet Xu Zhimo, whom she fell in love with.
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1925
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She divorced, despite the scandal.
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1926
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On October 3, she married in Beijing, Xu Zhimo (1897-1931) also divorced
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She joined the Chinese Women's Painting Calligraphy Society.
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1931
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On November 19, her husband died in a plane crash in Tai'an, Shandong Province.
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1941
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Solo exhibition in Shanghai.
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1950/1960
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She was a painter at the Shanghai Academy of Chinese Painting.
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1965
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Sick, suffering from asthma and pulmonary emphysema, she died on April 3,
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at the hospital, at the age of 62 years. Contrary to her wish, she was not buried
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with her husband because the son of his first wife opposed it.
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Danièle Sicard
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