Zhang Jie
Zhang Jie was born in Beijing on April 27, 1937, and was raised up by her mother in a village in Fushun, in Liaoning Province. Zhang Jie was born in a modest civil-servant family. Her parents were separated when she was very young, and then she lived with her mother and took her mother's last name. Zhang Jie and her mother were dependent on each other and spent long, miserable years in the turbulent times. Her mother worked as a teacher in the village elementary school and was forced to work as a servant and a factory mail-woman. Zhangjie was fond of music and literature when She was in elementary school and middle school. In 1960, She graduated from the Department of Statistics in Renmin University of China (People's University), and went to work for the First Ministry of Machinery Industry. Zhang Jie married to a singer in the theatrical work unity and had a daughter called Tang Di, she and her husband got divorced in 1969. During the Cultural Revolution, she was sent to the "May 7 cadre school" and returned to Beijing in 1972 and back to work in the First Ministry of Machinery Industry. Zhang Jie has endured many pains in her personal life, she has supported a family of three generations of women for a long time with her strong perseverance.