1. Mao Anqing was the last surviving son of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.
11 Facts About Mao Anqing
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Mao Anqing was the second son of Mao and his wife, Yang Kaihui.
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Mao Anqing worked as a translator and never became active in politics.
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Mao Anqing was born at Central South University Xiangya Hospital in Changsha, in Hunan province.
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Mao Anqing's mother was executed by the local warlord, He Jian, in 1930.
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Mao Anqing returned to China with his brother in 1947 and joined the Chinese Communist Party.
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Mao Anqing's brother was killed in 1950 in Korea, and Mao Anqing's mental illness worsened.
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Mao Anqing worked as a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences and the Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee, mainly translating books from Russian to Chinese as a Russian linguist.
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Mao Anqing later became a major general in the People's Liberation Army, and a member of the committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Together, they had one child, Mao Anqing Xinyu, who was born in 1970 at 301 Hospital in Beijing.
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When Mao Anqing died in 2007, he was the last of Mao Zedong's known surviving sons.