Kangbaerhan

Also known as Qemberxan Emet · Hailed as the Flower of Xinjiang

Qemberxan Emet, a Uyghur, was born in Kashgar, Xinjiang, in 1922. In 1935 she entered a ballet school in Uzbekistan, two years later joined a song and dance company in Tashkent, and in 1939 entered a music and dance academy in Moscow, studying Ukrainian, Russian and Azerbaijani dance until 1941. She was best known for the Uyghur solo Linpadai, and also danced Ushshaq, the Drum Dance and the Plate Dance. Touring Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Taiwan with the Xinjiang Youth Song and Dance Troupe in 1947, she was hailed as the Flower of Xinjiang. She later led dance education in Xinjiang for many years and died in March 1994.