Wang Ying Chinese: 王莹; née, Yu Zhihua; during incarceration, Prisoner No.

During the Cultural Revolution, she was imprisoned by former rival actress Jiang Qing, who had become a major political leader.

The writer Xie Bingying renamed her Wang Ying and under that name she starred in three films - Women's Cry, Story of Red Tears and The Same Enemy.

[2] Her iconic appearance in the play Put Down Your Whip was seen throughout China and abroad and it inspired an eponymous painting by Xu Beihong.

Whilst there, she met President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife and performed the play Put Down Your Whip in the White House.

[1] She had become a friend of Pearl S. Buck[3] and she assisted Agnes Smedley in writing her book about Zhu De.