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Yang Kaihui was born in the small village of Bancang in Changsha, Hunan Province, on 6 November 1901. [1] Her name meant "Opening Wisdom", although she came to be nicknamed Xia, meaning "Little Dawn." [1] Her father was Yang Changji, a teacher and leftist intellectual, her mother was Xiang Zhenxi, while she had a brother three years older than ...
Nov 7, 2015 · A monument to Yang Kaihui in Changsha, Hunan Province. 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 ...
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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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. In late 1918 Yang and Mao shared a house in Beijing, where they discovered a mutual attraction.
Nov 10, 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.) Yang’s dramatic, and tragic, life story is widely known in China. It has been turned into dance dramas, like the China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater’s ...
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 killed.
Mao Anying, the eldest son of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, was sent to the Soviet Union in 1936 and joined the Red Army in 1944. He participated in the wars against Germany and Japan, and was killed in Korea in 1950.
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