Complex sentence: Her father died when she was just 12 years old, in 1926, and her mother took her to live with her uncle in Tianjin where she worked as a child laborer in a cigarette factory for several months.
Split into simpler sentences: Her father died when she was just 12 years old, in 1926. Her mother took her to live with her uncle in Tianjin where she worked as a child laborer in a cigarette factory for several months.