Mao Anlong was born as the third son of

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also Romanization of Chinese, romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the List of national founde ...

in 1927 and died in 1931 at the age of 3 or 4. He was the youngest child of Yang Kaihui to die.

Early life

Mao Anlong was born in 1927 in

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...

to Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui, Mao's second wife. He had two older brothers, Mao Anying and Mao Anqing. When he was very young his father,

, left the family for his next wife, He Zizhen. Later, his mother was executed by a warlord, leaving Anlong and his siblings effectively orphaned. Upon being smuggled to Shanghai after his mother's execution, he and his siblings lived on the streets. Mao died from dysentery at the age of 3 or 4.

Family

His mother was Yang Kaihui; his father was

and his older brothers were Mao Anying, who died in 1950 and Mao Anqing, who died in 2007. His half siblings include

Yang Yuehua Yang Yuehua (楊月花; born March 1929), née Mao Jinhua, was born in Longyan, Fujian, China with family roots in Xiangtan, Hunan, China. She is the elder daughter of Mao Zedong, ( Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party) and He Zizhen (who wa ...

, Li Min, and Li Na.

Imposter

In the early 1990s, a flood of unapproved biographies of revolutionary leaders appeared. One such "autobiography" was a supposed account by Mao Anlong of how he had not died and actually been forced into hiding by his father. This book was denounced by Mao Anqing.

References

1927 births 1931 deaths Children of national leaders of China Mao Zedong family Deaths from dysentery {{China-bio-stub Child deaths