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Mao Anqing | |
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| Born | (1924-11-23)23 November 1924 Central South University Xiangya Hospital,Changsha,Republic of China |
| Died | 23 March 2007(2007-03-23) (aged 82) |
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| Children | Mao Xinyu |
| Parent(s) | Mao Zedong Yang Kaihui |
| Relatives | Mao family |
Mao Anqing (Chinese:毛岸青;pinyin:Máo Ànqīng; 23 November 1924 – 23 March 2007) was the last surviving son ofMao Zedong,Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. He was the second son of Mao and his wife,Yang Kaihui. He had amental illness, possiblyschizophrenia.[1] He worked as a translator and never became active in politics.
Mao Anqing was born at Central South University Xiangya Hospital inChangsha, inHunan province. His mother was executed by the local warlord,He Jian, in 1930. Mao Anqing, his elder brotherMao Anying and his younger brotherMao Anlong escaped toShanghai. Their father was inJiangxi province at the time, and they were looked after by local communist activists. They spent some time living on the streets, and Mao Anqing was badly beaten by a policeman in 1930. Some blame this beating for his later mental illness. His younger brother Mao Anlong died inShanghai.
Mao and his surviving elder brother were sent toParis in 1936, and then moved toMoscow, where they remained until 1947. Mao Anqing and his brother participated inWorld War II for theSoviet Union againstNazi Germany.
Mao returned to China with his brother in 1947 and joined theChinese Communist Party (CCP). TheCommunist forces under his father's leadership defeated the opposingKuomintang forces on mainland China in 1949, andproclaimed the People's Republic of China. His brother was killed in 1950 inKorea, and Mao Anqing's mental illness worsened. He spent considerable periods in mental hospitals.
Mao Anqing worked as a researcher at theAcademy of Military Sciences and the Publicity Department of theCCP Central Committee, mainly translating books fromRussian toChinese as a Russianlinguist.[2] He also wrote various books on his father. He was never actively involved in politics.[3]
He marriedShao Hua in September 1960. She later became amajor general in thePeople's Liberation Army, and a member of the committee of theChinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Together, they had one child,Mao Xinyu, who was born in 1970 at 301 Hospital in Beijing. They are the only known remainingmale line descendants of Mao Zedong. Shao Hua died on 24 June 2008, at the age of 69, at the People's Liberation Army Hospital in Beijing.[3]
When Mao Anqing died in 2007, he was the last ofMao Zedong's known surviving sons.[4]
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