A WOMAN who says she is the illegitimate daughter of Zhou Enlai is in fact the daughter of an accountant who has changed her name many times and invented details of her life, the Chinese Government said, dismissing the claim.
Ai Bei, who claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of the late premier in her book, He's Too Heavy - He's My Father, was born to a farming family in Yuanji village, in Wuhe county of Anhui on December 28, 1955, said Xinhua (the New China News Agency).
Xinhua also criticised the book's presentation, saying it was misleading because it carried photographs of Zhou and Ai and had phrases like ''the life mystery of Zhou Enlai's illegitimate daughter'' on its cover, despite being a novel.
Certificates with photographs matching those in the book, and the woman's relatives, could prove the identity of Ai, originally called Zhang Aipei, said Xinhua.
Xinhua said the woman's real father, Zhang Zhaofang, became an accountant in an agricultural co-operative in the 1950s. He died of an illness in 1960.
Xinhua also denied that her mother, Huang Julan, now over 80, has anything to do with ''An-ran'' described in the book.