Meiping Cheng Memorial Scholarship Collection

Collection

Identifier: 6-10-3

Staff Only

Content Description

This collection include various photographs and negatives of Meiping Cheng and Nien Cheng, flyers, brochures, programs and other advertisements for the scholarship, news releases, and administrative forms and correspondence regarding the scholarship. Other contents include display materials for Life and Death in Shanghai and the Meiping Cheng Memorial Scholarship.

Dates

1964 - 1996
Majority of material found within 1987 - 1992

Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

Meiping Cheng, the daughter of Kang-chi and Nien Cheng, was a promising actress living in Shanghai. Meiping was honing her craft at the Shanghai Film Studio when the Cultural Revolution erupted in 1966. Her mother, widowed since 1957, was charged with espionage and imprisoned in Shanghai’s No. 1 Detention House. Upon her release in 1973, Cheng soon learned of the death of her daughter, Meiping, from an apparent suicide in 1967. The revelation was both heartbreaking, and a cause for suspicion for Cheng. After conducting a personal investigation into the matter, Cheng concluded that her daughter was murdered by the Red Guards for refusing to denounce her imprisoned mother. As a memorial tribute to Meiping Cheng and with the endorsement of Nien Cheng, Slippery Rock University established the Meiping Cheng Memorial Scholarship and its sustaining endowment in 1987.