Goodbye, Li Xianglan

Li Xianglan's original name was Shuko Yamaguchi, and her family called her Doudou. A native of Japan, she was born on February 12, 1920 in Beiyantai, near Fengtian (present-day Shenyang) in Liaoning Province, China, and soon moved her family to Fushun. Yamaguchi was born in Japan into a family of Sinologists, her grandfather was a scholar of Sinology in Saga Prefecture, and her father was influenced by him to study in China in his early years, and later worked for the "Manchurian Railway" company. Born in Shenyang and later living in Fushun, Yamaguchi Shuzi will never forget the blood red left in her mind as a teenager - in 1932, she saw several kidnapped Chinese being shot dead on the spot by Japanese military police, and her flesh and blood were blurred. She later learned that it was related to the Pingdingshan massacre, in which 3,000 Chinese civilians were massacred by Japanese soldiers. During the Pingdingshan incident, because her father was detained for "collaborating with the enemy", Yamaguchi's family moved to Shenyang. When she was 13 years old, Shuko Yamaguchi recognized her father's Chinese classmate Li Jichun, the president of the pro-Japanese Shenyang Bank at the time, as her adoptive father, and she also had a nice name - Li Xianglan. 　　In 1943, the young and naïve Li Xianglan came to Beiping with love for China and Japan and a vision for her future life, and studied in Beiping Yijiao Girls' High School under the name "Pan Shuhua". "Pan...