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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powerful Mao could not find the child are mysteries that Chiang Ch'ing did not clear up in her interviews...
...mentioned to Chiang Ch'ing that some foreign sources have claimed that she had two daughters of her own and perhaps also a son. She gave birth to but one child, she replied firmly, and the Chairman was the father...
Those temperamental problems were compounded by misfortune, Chiang Ch'ing continued. During the March Ho was wounded several times in enemy attacks, experiences which destroyed her physical and mental balance. By the time the Red forces reached the Northwest in late 1935, she was beyond coping with either the political situation, her children [at least two but total number unknown], or other personal relations. Naturally, the Chairman found her behavior intolerable. When the Party reached the Central Soviet Districts of the Northwest, Ho abandoned the Chairman, vowing never to settle in Yenan. She returned on her own to Sian...
...some point early in her marriage Chiang Ch'ing took charge of [a] son of Mao's (whether he was Ho Tzu-chen's child was unclear). This little boy evidently had been sent to Moscow and later returned to Shanghai, where he was put in the care of a priest, a man with two wives who turned out to be vicious women. They beat the boy so mercilessly that his sense of balance was permanently impaired. How well Chiang Ch'ing remembered his little body rocking crazily left and right. Even years later he still...
Chiang Ch'ing came to love this child, rearing him as her own son until the early 1950's, when she had to undergo radiotherapy for cancer. Naturally, the intensive medical care made it difficult for her to look after him. "Others" (unnamed) decided that she was no longer able to mother him. Against her pleadings "they" tore him away from her, refusing to tell her where he would be placed. The loss was profound, for he was very bright; at the age of three he could sing the Internationale from start to finish. She never found...