41 APPENDIX 2 MAO ZEDONG'S GENEALOGY

PARENTS

Father (nineteenth generation of the Mao clan named “yi”—“bestowing”)—Mao Yichang (October 15, 1870–January 23, 1920).

Mother—Wen Qimei (February 12, 1867–October 5, 1919)

WIVES

First wife—Luo Yigu (October 20, 1889–February 11, 1910). Married in late 1907 or early 1908.

Second wife—Yang Kaihui (November 6, 1901–November 14, 1930). Married in December 1920.

Third wife—He Zizhen (September 1909–April 19, 1984). Married either May 25 or May 26, 1928.

Fourth wife—Jiang Qing (March 1914–May 14, 1991). Married November 19, 1939.

CHILDREN

First child (from his second wife)—a son Mao Anying (twenty-first generation of the Mao clan named “yuan”—“remote”) (October 24, 1922–November 25, 1950)

Mao Anying's wife—Liu Siqi 刘思齐, who later changed her name to Liu Songlin (born March 2, 1930). Married October 15, 1949.

Second child (from his second wife)—a son Mao Anqing (twenty-first generation of the Mao clan named “yuan”—“remote”) (November 13, 1923–March 23, 2007).

Mao Anqing's wife—Zhang Shaohua, who later changed her name to Shao Hua (October 30, 1938–June 24, 2008). Married in 1960.

Third child (from his second wife)—a son Mao Anlong (twenty-first generation of the Mao clan named “yuan”—“remote”) (April 4, 1927–May 1931).

Fourth child (from his third wife)—a daughter Mao Jinhua (late May 1929– ).

Fifth child (from his third wife)—a son Mao Anhong (twenty-first generation of the Mao clan named “yuan”—“remote”) (early November 1932– ).

Sixth child (from his third wife)—a son (twenty-first generation of the Mao clan named “yuan”—“remote”) (late autumn 1933 or early winter 1933–?).

Seventh child (from his third wife)—a daughter (February 1935–?).

Eighth child (from his third wife)—a daughter Jiaojiao; Mao Zedong later changed her name to Li Min (born January 1937).

Li Min's husband—Kong Linghua (1934–January 20, 1999). Married August 29, 1958.

Ninth child (from his third wife)—a son Lyova (twenty-first generation of the Mao clan named “yuan”—“remote”) (April 6, 1938–December 1938).

Tenth child (from his fourth wife)—a daughter Li Na (born August 3, 1940).

Li Na's first husband—Xu Ning (?–?). Married in 1970. The marriage ended in either 1974 or 1976.

Li Na's second husband—Wang Jingqing (born 1932). Married in early 1984.

GRANDSONS AND GRANDDAUGHTER

Grandson (from Mao Anqing)—Mao Xinyu (“New world”) (twenty-second generation of the Mao clan named “shi”—“dear”) (born January 17, 1970).89

Mao Xinyu's first wife—Hao Mingli (January 1972–December 29, 2003). Married December 7, 1997. Marriage ended in May 2002.90

Mao Xinyu's second wife—Liu Bin (born early 1977). Married in 2002.

Grandson (from Li Min)—Kong Jining (“Successor to Lenin's Cause”)90 (born October 27, 1962).

Kong Jining's wife—Shen Rong (birth and marriage dates unknown).

Granddaughter (from Li Min)—Kong Dongmei (“Eastern Plum Blossom”)92 (born 1972).

Grandson (from Li Na and Xu Ning)—Xu Xiaoning; later, after Li Na and Xu Ning divorced, his name was changed to Li Xiaoyu, but after Li Na married Wang Jingqing in 1984, his name was changed again to Wang Xiaozhi (“Modeled on Mao Runzhi,” i.e., Mao Zedong)92 (born 1972).

Wang Xiaozhi's wife—Married in 2007.

GREAT-GRANDSONS AND GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTERS

Great-grandson (from Mao Xinyu and Liu Bin)—Mao Dongdong (literally: “Winter East”); later the name was changed to Dongdong (“Inheritor of Mao Zedong's Legacy”), because a sister of his grandmother, Li Na, observed that Winter East was a very “cold name” (twenty-third generation of the Mao clan named “dai”—“epochal”) (born December 26, 2003).

Great-granddaughter (from Kong Dongmei)—(born 2005).

Great-grandson (from Kong Dongmei)—(born October 2007).

BROTHERS

(Twentieth generation of the Mao clan named “ze”—“benefactor”)

Brother—Mao Zemin (April 3, 1896–September 27, 1943).

Mao Zemin's first wife—Wang Shulan (February 5, 1896–July 7, 1964). Married in 1919 or 1920.

Mao Zemin's second wife—Qian Xijun (1905–September 11, 1989). Married in 1926.

Mao Zemin's third wife—Zhu Danhua (December 26, 1911–May 29, 2010). Married in May 1940.

Younger brother—Mao Zetan (September 25, 1905–April 25, 1935).

Mao Zetan's first wife—Zhao Xiangui (September 5, 1905–June 1932). Married in 1924.

Mao Zetan's second wife—Zhou Wennan (October 1910–September 1992). Married in late 1926.

Mao Zetan's third wife—He Yi (1910–November 22, 1949). Married July 20, 1931.

FOSTER SISTER

Mao Zejian (October 1905–August 20, 1929).

Mao Zejian's first husband—Married in 1919 ( ). Marriage ended in 1920.

Mao Zejian's second husband—Chen Fen (1903–May 1, 1928). Married in 1925.