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3 unusual facts about Wu Han


David Finckel

In 1997, David Finckel and Wu Han launched ArtistLed, classical music’s first musician-directed and Internet-based recording company, whose catalogue of sixteen albums has won widespread acclaim.

David performs and records frequently in collaboration with pianist Wu Han, whom he married in 1985.

Wu Han

Haing S. Ngor, the 20th century actor and doctor whose most famous work was The Killing Fields, had the same Chinese name


Peng Zhen

He was accused of being an associate to Wu Han's counter-revolutionary clique and deposed at a May conference, along with Lu Dingyi, Luo Ruiqing and Yang Shangkun, at the very start of the Cultural Revolution.


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Kang Sheng

The attack on Wu Han was an indirect attack on Beijing's mayor, Peng Zhen, a pillar of the establishment that Mao wanted overthrown.