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TIL of Zheng Pingru, a female Chinese socialite who would join the resistance against the Japanese occupation of Shanghai during World War 2. She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun, the security chief of the local Japanese collaborationist regime, who she dated.

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