Jump to content

Mao Fumei

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Mao Fumei
毛福梅
Born(1882-11-09)9 November 1882
Died12 December 1939(1939-12-12) (aged 57)
Spouse
(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.