Mao Fumei

In this Chinese name, the family name is Mao.
Mao Fumei
毛福梅
Born(1882-11-09)9 November 1882
Fenghua, Zhejiang, Qing China
Died12 December 1939(1939-12-12) (aged 57)
Xikou, Zhejiang, Republic of China
Spouse
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(m. 1901; div. 1921)​
ChildrenChiang Ching-kuo
FatherMao Dinghe (毛鼎和)
Mao Fumei
Chinese毛福梅
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinMáo Fúméi
Wade–GilesMao2 Fu2-mei2

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.

Tablet of Returning Blood with Blood- Promising to avenge his mother's death, Chiang Ching-Kuo had the words "以血洗血" ('wash away blood with blood') carved on a tablet

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 [zh] in Xikou.[4]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Commire, A.; Klezmer, D. (1994). Historic World Leaders: Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific. Gale Research Incorporated. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-8103-8409-5.
  4. ^ Guang Hua. Kwang Haw Pub. (USA). 1998. p. 35.
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