Background
He Zizhen was born in Yunshan (云山, now Yongxin County), Jiangxi, during Qing Dynasty China and joined the Communist Youth League in 1925.
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He Zizhen was born in Yunshan (云山, now Yongxin County), Jiangxi, during Qing Dynasty China and joined the Communist Youth League in 1925.
She graduated from the Yongxin Girls" School and joined the Communist Party of China in 1926.
Their eldest daughter, who was left to a local family in Fujian, was found and recognized by He Zizhen"s brother in 1973, but never had the chance to meet Mao or He. Two English researchers who retraced the entire Long March in 2002–2003, located a woman whom they believe might be a missing child left in the care of others by Mao and He in 1935. Editor Jocelyn and Andrew McEwen are waiting for a response from family for deoxyribonucleic acid samples.
In 1937, she traveled to the Soviet Union to treat a wound sustained earlier in battle, later attending the Moscow East University.
Upon her return to China in 1947, she found she could not hope to fulfill any sort of political role in Beijing. Although, she later became the chair of Zhejiang Province Women"s Union.
In 1984, He Zizhen died alone in Shanghai.