Brave dancer with a dream who was brought up by a single mother overcomes falls and pain, takes to stage with determination
3-MIN READ3-MINFran Luin BeijingPublished: 2:00pm, 5 Jun 2026A 24-year-old Chinese woman keeps managing to shine on stage despite wearing a patch and a mask after she lost an eye and her left upper jaw to cancer.
Han Yifei, from eastern China’s Jiangsu province, has moved many people online and garnered over 7,000 followers on a social media platform with her beautiful ballroom dancing.
In videos she uploaded, she always wears an eye patch and sometimes a mask.
Han lost part of her jaw and the vision in her left eye to osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer.
She felt discomfort in her gum in 2019 as a senior secondary school graduate.
The local hospital told her it was no big deal, and she was also successfully accepted as a dance performance major at the Nanjing University of the Arts.
