relations death_date death_place birth_place other_names nationality party parents native_name birth_date spouse alma_mater notable_works image article_title name occupation death_cause
sun -rrb- sun xingshi -lrb- sister -rrb- zhou enlai -lrb- adopted yang father -rrb- deng yingchao -lrb- adopted mother -rrb- -lrb- brother -rrb- sun mingshi -lrb- brother 15 october 1968 beijing nanxi county , sichuan li lin 李琳 chinese chinese communist party sun bingwen -lrb- 1885-1927 -rrb- ren rui 0.1 em 1921 jin shan moscow sun yat-sen university '' inspector general '' ; '' little rabbit '' ; '' how uncle vanya '' ; '' joys and sorrows '' ; steel '' peach flower fan '' ; '' portrait of one is hundred clowns '' ; '' the hatred of black slaves made '' ; '' the rising sun '' '' ; '' the sun weiseh.jpg sun weishi
 0.2 em sun weishi writer , director , actor unlawful imprisonment -lrb- executed by jiang qing -rrb-
sun weishi

sun weishi -lrb- 1921 -- october 15 , 1968 -rrb- was the first female director of modern spoken drama -lrb- `` huaju '' -rrb- in chinese history .
sun 's father was killed by the kuomintang -lrb- kmt -rrb- in 1927 , and sun was eventually adopted by zhou enlai , who later became the first premier of the people 's republic of china .
while in yan ` an sun aroused the enmity of mao 's wife , jiang qing , beginning a rivalry between the two that lasted throughout sun 's life .
during world war ii , sun lived in moscow , studying theatre .
lin biao was also in moscow at the time and proposed to sun before returning to china in 1942 , but sun rejected him .
lin married another woman , ye qun , in 1943 .
ye held a lifelong grudge against sun for her earlier relationship with lin .
after the end of world war ii , sun returned to china and became active in acting and directing in chinese theatre .
in 1950 , shortly after the founding of the people 's republic of china , sun was invited to become the director of the china youth art theatre , and married one of the most famous actors then in china the same year .
over the next several years sun staged a number of performances that were critically well-received , some of which became famous across china .
in 1956 , sun became the artistic director and vice-president of the chinese experimental theatre , and staged a number of critically well-received plays over the next decade .
when the cultural revolution occurred in 1966 , zhou enlai sent sun and her husband to work in daqing to protect them from political persecution , but jiang qing and ye qun conspired to have sun secretly arrested while visiting zhou enlai in beijing in 1968 .
sun was sentenced without trial , and was tortured in a secret prison for several months before dying .
after sun died , jiang qing made arrangements for sun 's body to be cremated before an autopsy could be performed , and for her ashes to be disposed of before zhou or sun 's other relatives could take possession of them .
sun 's husband was not informed of sun 's death until his release , in 1975 .
