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Yang Kaihui - Wikipedia. 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.
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.
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.
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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Mao Zedong was born in 1893 to a peasant family. He left his family’s farm at age 16 to pursue his education, abandoning an arranged marriage. In 1920 he married Yang Kaihui, who was later killed during the Chinese civil war.
Yang Kaihui. 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.
