At 3:00 am on November 23, 1968, Shangguan Yunzhu jumped from the seventh-floor balcony of Wukang Mansion, a prominent European-style residential building in the heart of Shanghai’s French Concession. The suicide was reported in several local newspapers at the time. Shangguan, 48, was one of the most renowned actresses of the time. From the press clippings it was explained that the woman had passed a
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