Yang Kaihui

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Yáng Kāihuì

Yáng Kāihuì ( Chinese  楊開慧  /  杨开慧 nickname: Chinese  云 锦 , Pinyin Yúnjǐn ) (born November 6, 1901 in Bancang , Hunan Province ; † November 14, 1930 in Changsha , Hunan Province) was Mao Zedong's second wife from 1920 to 1927 .

Yang Kaihui was from Bancang Village in Hunan Province . She was the daughter of Yang Changji, a teacher who was rector of the First Pedagogical College of Hunan Province from 1913 and one of Mao's favorite teachers while studying in Changsha . Yang Changji accepted a professorship at Beijing University in 1918 and took his family with him. He was able to find a job in the university library for Mao. During this time, Mao and Yang Kaihui fell in love.

After her father died in 1920, Yang Kaihui moved to Changsha again. In the winter of that year, Yang and Mao got married. With Mao Zedong she had three sons: Mao Anying (1922-1950), Mao Anqing (1923-2007) and Mao Anlong (1927-1931).

She joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 and supported Mao in his party work. After the failed autumn harvest uprising in September 1927, Mao had to flee Changsha and leave his family. A year later he married He Zizhen .

In 1930, Changsha was attacked by communist forces led by Mao. In retaliation, Yang was captured by the Kuomintang on October 24, 1930 . She was tortured and required to publicly distance herself from Mao Zedong. Since she refused, she was on November 14, 1930 executed .

literature

  • Jung Chang, Jon Halliday: Mao: The Unknown Story. Jonathan Cape, London 2005, ISBN 0-224-07126-2 .
  • Lee Feigon: Mao: A Reinterpretation. Ivan R. Dee, Chicago 2002, ISBN 1-5666-3458-X .
  • Clare Hollingworth: Mao and the Men Against Him. Jonathan Cape, London 1985, ISBN 0-224-01760-8 .
  • Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine: Mao: The Real Story. Simon & Schuster, New York and London 2012, ISBN 978-1-4516-5447-9 .
  • Ross Terrill: Mao: A Biography. Simon and Schuster, New York City 1980, ISBN 0-06-014243-X .
  • Stuart Schram: Mao Tse-Tung. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1969.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Sheila Melvin: Mao's "Proud Poplar". Caixin, November 7, 2015, accessed January 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ 1930: Yang Kaihui, Mao Zedong's wife at executedtoday.com, accessed December 13, 2015
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Yang is the family name here, Kaihui is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Yang, Kaihui
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yáng, Kāihuì; 楊開慧 (traditional character); 杨开慧 (abbreviation); Yúnjǐn (nickname); 云 锦 (nickname Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese politician's wife, wife of Mao Zedong
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Bancang , Hunan Province
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1930
Place of death Changsha , Hunan Province