Background
He was the second son of Chairman Mao and his wife, Yang Kaihui. Mao Anqing was born in Changsha, in Hunan province. His mother was executed by the local warlord, He Jian, in 1930.
毛岸青
He was the second son of Chairman Mao and his wife, Yang Kaihui. Mao Anqing was born in Changsha, in Hunan province. His mother was executed by the local warlord, He Jian, in 1930.
He suffered from a mental illness. He worked as a translator and never became active in politics. Their father was in Jiangxi province at the time, and they were looked after by local communist activists.
They spent some time living on the streets, and Mao Anqing was badly beaten by a policeman in 1930.
Some blame this beating for his later mental illness. Mao and his surviving elder brother were sent to Paris in 1936, and then moved to Moscow, where they remained until 1947.
He spent considerable periods in mental hospitals. Mao Anqing worked as a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences and the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, mainly translating books from Russian to Chinese as a Russian linguist.
He also wrote various books on his father.
He was never actively involved in politics.
The Communist forces under his father defeated the opposing Kuomintang forces on mainland China in 1949, and proclaimed the People"s Republic of China.
