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Yang Kaihui with her children. Yáng Kāihuì (simplified Chinese: 杨开慧; traditional Chinese: 楊開慧; courtesy name: Yúnjǐn (simplified Chinese: 云锦; traditional Chinese: 雲錦); 6 November 1901 – 14 November 1930) was the second wife of Mao Zedong, whom he married in 1920.
Nov 7, 2015 · Yang Kaihui – who was killed 85 years ago this month – was the first of Mao Zedong's three freely chosen wives. (Mao was forced by his parents to wed an older neighbor when he was just 14 but did not consider this a true marriage.) Her dramatic, and tragic, life story is widely known in China.
Jul 21, 2010 · Jiang Qing, the third wife of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, was sentenced to death for her role in the Cultural Revolution. She was the only one of the "Gang of Four" to survive the purge and died in prison in 1991.
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Nov 14, 2012 · Posted on 14 November, 2012 by Meaghan. (Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1930, Yang Kaihui was executed in Changsha, China. The 29-year-old mother of three was beheaded for her refusal to renounce the Chinese Communist Party and Mao Zedong.
Yang Kaihui (1901-1930) was the second wife of Mao Zedong, the mother of three of his children and an active Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadre. She was born in Hunan province, the daughter of Yang Changji, one of Mao’s favourite teachers.
Apr 25, 2020 · Mao Anying, the son of communist leader Mao Zedong and his wife Yang Kaihui, was a Russian-trained artillery officer who fought in the Korean War. He was killed by a U.S. air raid in 1950, while his wife Liu Songlin survived and later remarried.
Mar 25, 2007 · Yang Kaihui was arrested, with her elder son, on his eighth birthday. Given a chance to save her life if she denounced her husband, she refused. She was taken to the execution ground and...
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