Li Shuzhen, better known by her stage name Li Yuru and also known as Li Xueying, was a Chinese opera singer and actress. Descended from Manchu nobility, she is remembered as "one of the great Beijing Opera performers" and played an important role in the acceptance of female singers in female roles (dan). Amid the Cultural Revolution, she was imprisoned from 1966 until the early 1970s. In 1979, she married Cao Yu, one of the most important 20th-century Chinese dramatists, and, following China's reform and opening up under Deng Xiaoping, she ended her life respected as one of the few surviving masters of the dan roles.
- Occupation
- opera singer, Peking opera actor
- Citizenship
- People's Republic of China
- Born
- July 1924, July 25, 1923
- Died
