He Zizhen

He Zizhen (Chinese贺子珍/贺子珍, Pinyin Hè Zǐzhēn, * 1909 in Jiangxi, † 1984) was from 1928 to 1939, the third wife of Mao Zedong.

Life

At 15, she joined the youth organization of the Communist Party of China (CPC ) a. In 1926 she became a member of the party. Mao, she learned on the run from the forces of Chiang Kai- shek know. Gui -yuan worked for Mao as an interpreter. The marriage ceremony took place without binding four months after Mao had left his wife Yang Kaihui and his three sons instead. A year after the marriage she wanted to leave him, but what Mao did not allow.

Of her six children, she lost five, partly by the fact that they had to leave behind on the run.

Her eldest daughter, who had her Mao left behind and with a family in Fujian, was found by her brother in 1973. Two English researchers who have pursued the path of the Long March 2002-2003, found a woman who is probably a 1935 passed to farmers child of He Zizhen and Mao. Ed Jocelyn and Andrew McEwen hope to check their guess with the help of a member of the Mao family through a DNA test.

During the Long March Zizhen He was critically injured in a bomb attack by the Nationalist army. In 1937 she went to the Soviet Union to seek medical treatment, and had their daughter Chiao -chiao (Li Ming) ( b. 1936 ) leave in a party 's day-care center in Yan'an.

In their absence, Mao married actress Jiang Qing, who later acquired as a member of the Gang of Four dubious fame.

1940 Chiao -chiao was brought to her mother to Russia. He was Zizhen health and mentally through the pregnancy, to the left behind and children who died and the injuries during the Long March to diminish the painful memories that she was admitted to a mental hospital.

In 1946, she returned, stabilized, back to China. In 1949 she was the chairwoman of the Women's Association (Women's Union) of Zhejiang. In 1959 she was overthrown by a reunion with Mao into a new crisis.