Word: fei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wife No. 2 was a saucy baggage called Shu Fei. In 1931 she rushed to the civil courts of China and sued for divorce, claiming that after nine years her marriage was still unconsummated (TIME, Oct. 12. 1931). There are few things about his new Empire that Henry Pu Yi can really direct, but on one point he is adamant: there will be neither concubines nor eunuchs in his latest court. Henry and Elizabeth will get along by themselves...
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Concubine Shu Fei drops the question of her status, abates her demand for consummation (of her marriage or concubinage, whichever...
Though she had won so much, Concubine Shu Fei still smarted last week under the rebukes of her brother. He, a confirmed bootlicker of Manchus, had reminded her by letter that the duty of an Imperial concubine is, of course, to commit suicide rather than displease her lord. Conscious of this moral duty, Shu Fei cried last week, "But I had planned to kill myself, I swear...
...letter to her sister (who has kept Shu Fei at a good Peiping hotel and paid her lawyers), China's Imperial Gold Digger justified herself thus...