A famed Chinese pianist has caused jaws to drop across China, and it’s not for anything he did in the concert hall.
On November 7, Liu Shikun and his 45-year-old wife welcomed a newborn daughter and named her Bei Bei, meaning precious baby in Chinese. Liu is now 81 years old, and this fact, along with the large age gap between him and his wife, has sparked a conversation in China about love and relationships.
“She is our best gift received,” said the mother, Sun Ying (or Samantha Suen), in Chinese news reports. Sun is also a performing pianist and added that she hopes the daughter will carry on the musical heritage.
But Liu’s older age had many worried about an added risk of genetic dise
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Nov 24, 2020