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| Born | 1918 | ||||||||||
| Died | February 1940 (aged 21–22) Shanghai, China | ||||||||||
| Nationality | Chinese | ||||||||||
| Alma mater | Shanghai College of Politics and Law | ||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | socialite, spy | ||||||||||
| Parent(s) | Zheng Yueyuan (father) Hanako Kimura (mother) | ||||||||||
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| Country | Republic of China | ||||||||||
| Allegiance | Kuomintang | ||||||||||
| Service years | 1937–1940 | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 鄭蘋如 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 郑苹如 | ||||||||||
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Zheng Pingru (1918 – February 1940) was a Chinese socialite and spy who gathered intelligence on the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun, the security chief of the Wang Jingwei regime, a puppet government for the Japanese. Her life is believed to be the inspiration for Eileen Chang's novella Lust, Caution, which was later adapted into the eponymous 2007 film by Ang Lee.