Mao Fumei (Chinese: 毛福梅; pinyin: Máo Fúméi, 9 November 1882 – 12 December 1939) was the first wife of Chiang Kai-shek, and the biological mother of Chiang Ching-Kuo.
Mao Fumei | |
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| Born | 9 November 1882 |
| Died | 12 December 1939 (aged 57) Xikou, Zhejiang, Republic of China |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Chiang Ching-kuo |
| Father | Mao Dinghe (毛鼎和) |
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| Chinese | 毛福梅 | ||||||||
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Mao was born in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and, like most women of the era, she was illiterate. She married Chiang Kai-shek in an arranged marriage in 1901.[1][2] When Chiang came back from Japan, he divorced her in 1921.[3] She was killed in 1939 in a Japanese air raid on the Chiang family home in Xikou.[4]
References
edit- ^ Fenby, J. (2009). Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost. Hachette Books. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-7867-3984-4. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
In 1901, a marriage was arranged between Chiang and Mao Fumei, a robust, illiterate village girl. He was fourteen; she was five years his senior. His heart was hardly in becoming a husband.
- ^ Pichon Pei Yung Loh (1971). The Early Chiang Kai-shek: A STUDY OF HIS PERSONALITY AND POLITICS, 1887-1924. Columbia University Press. p. 11. ISBN 0-231-03596-9 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Commire, A.; Klezmer, D. (1994). Historic World Leaders: Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific. Gale Research Incorporated. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-8103-8409-5.
- ^ Guang Hua. Kwang Haw Pub. (USA). 1998. p. 35.
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