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PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS
Photograph no. 10, by Auguste François, is reproduced by permission of Réunion des Musées Nationaux; no. 14, by Cecil Beaton, by permission of the Beaton Estate; no. 16, by permission of Getty Images; no. 19, by permission of Wang Danzhi; nos. 29 and 39, by permission of the Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Kinofotodokumentov (the Russian State Archive of Photodocuments); no. 34, by Henri Cartier-Bresson, by permission of Magnum Photos; no. 45, by Du Xiuxian; no. 53, by Lu Houmin; nos. 61, 63, 64 and 65, by Li Zhensheng; nos. 67, 72, 76 and 77, by Du Xiuxian.
The room where Mao was born, on 26 December 1893, in Shaoshan village, Hunan province.(photo illustration 1)
Mao Tse-tung (right), in the only photograph of him with his mother, taken in Changsha in 1919, shortly before she died. Mao, aged twenty-five, is dressed in scholar’s garb, while his two younger brothers, Tse-tan (far left) and Tse-min, are still wearing peasant clothes.(photo illustration 2)
Mao Tse-tung (right), wearing a black armband just after the death of his mother, with his father (second from left), uncle (second from right), and brother Tse-tan (far left), Changsha, 13 November 1919.(photo illustration 3)
Yang Kai-hui, Mao’s second wife, with their two eldest sons, An-ying (right), aged two, and Anching, aged one, Shanghai, 1924. Kai-hui was soon to be deserted by Mao, and executed by the Nationalists because of Mao. She left poignant manuscripts describing her disillusionment with communism and with Mao, whom she loved.(photo illustration 4)
Moscow’s key agents in China. Grigori Voitinsky (above left) founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1920. Maring (above right), the Dutch agitator, co-presided over the first congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai in 1921. He later broke with communism and was executed by the Nazis. (Below) Mikhail Borodin (far right) steered both the Nationalists and the Communists in 1923–27. He was in Canton, 1925, with Chiang Kai-shek (next to him), soon to become the Nationalists’ leader, and Wang Ching-wei (front), Mao’s patron in the Nationalist Party, and later head of the Japanese puppet government.(photo illustration 5)
Ruijin, 7 November 1931, the day the first Chinese Red state was founded, when Mao (second from right) became the “Chairman.” To his left Wang Jia-xiang; to his right: Xiang Ying, Deng Fa, military chief Zhu De, Ren Bi-shi and Gu Zuo-lin.(photo illustration 8)
The leadership of the Red state held its first formal meeting on 1 December 1931. Mao standing, back to camera. Zhu De to Mao’s right. The Red state collapsed in October 1934, when the Long March began.(photo illustration 9)
The bridge over the Dadu River at Luding, the site of the core myth about the Long March. Communist claims of fierce fighting here in 1935 were invented.(photo illustration 10)
Mao (standing, third from left, looking Oscar Wilde-ish), in his post — Long March HQ, Yenan, September 1937, with some of the participants in the “Autumn Harvest Uprising” of 1927, the founding moment of the myth of Mao as a peasant leader. His third wife, Gui-yuan, is standing far right.(photo illustration 11)
Mao (seated, second from left), with Red Army officers, including Zhu De (seated, third from left) and Mao’s closest crony, Lin Biao (seated, fourth from left), Yenan, 1937.(photo illustration 12)
The four moles who helped doom the Nationalists. Shao Li-tzu (right) delivered Chiang Kai-shek’s son to Moscow in 1925 to be Stalin’s hostage for over a decade. To get his son back, Chiang let the Reds survive during the Long March.(photo illustration 13)
Gen. Zhang Zhi-zhong (above) triggered off all-out war with Japan in 1937, diverting the Japanese into the heartland of China and away from Russia.(photo illustration 14)
Gen. Hu Tsung-nan (below) offered up Nationalist forces en masse to Mao to be wiped out in 1947–48. “Hundred Victories”(photo illustration 15)
Gen. Wei Li-huang (below right, center), photographed for Life magazine, delivered over half a million of Chiang’s best troops and Manchuria to Mao in 1948.(photo illustration 16)
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (front right) with Chang Hsueh-liang (“the Young Marshal”), the former warlord of Manchuria, who kidnapped Chiang at Xian in December 1936. The kidnap, which was co-ordinated with Mao, dealt the marginalized Reds back into the game.(photo illustration 17)
Mao’s main Party rivals. Chang Kuo-tao (above left) with Mao in Yenan, 1937. Mao sabotaged Chang’s much larger army on the Long March; he then sent half the remainder to its doom in the Northwest desert, finally burying the survivors alive. Chang fled the Reds in 1938. Wang Ming (above right) with Mao shortly after arriving in Yenan from Moscow in late 1937, bringing Stalin’s orders for the CCP to fight Japan. Mao, who welcomed the Japanese invasion as a way to destroy Chiang Kai-shek, felt threatened by Wang Ming, and had him poisoned. Mao was in the minority in the Politburo over his “don’t fight Japan” policy, but reversed his political fortunes by scheming in autumn 1938, when the Politburo gathered in Yenan, here seen (below) in front of the Spanish Franciscan cathedral. From left: Mao, Peng De-huai, Wang Jia-xiang, Lo Fu, Zhu De, Po Ku (who tried to leave Mao behind on the Long March), Wang Ming, Kang Sheng, Xiang Ying, Liu Shao-chi, Chen Yun, Chou En-lai.(photo illustration 18)
January 1937: Red Army troops entering Yenan, which became Mao’s home for a decade.(photo illustration 20)
Yenan: the building constructed specially for the Party congress that enthroned Mao in 1945. Cave dwellings visible in the background, dug into the soft loess hills.(photo illustration 21)
The Spanish Franciscan cathedral of Our Lady of Begoña in Yenan. Completed in 1935, it was seized by the local Red leader, Liu Chih-tan, whom Mao soon eliminated. The site of many key Party meetings, including the one which reversed Mao’s fortunes.(photo illustration 22)
Jung Chang, outside Mao’s official Yenan residence, interviewing a local farmer whose mother used to do Mao’s laundry.(photo illustration 23)
Jon Halliday at the ruins of a churchlike edifice specially built in a remote valley outside Yenan for Party meetings; it was never used, as Mao had a secret residence next door and wanted to keep the place to himself. This secret compound (below) is unknown to this day. Mao lived in the “cave” to the right, with tunnels through the hills. The entrance was covered, and even had a sun awning. The only neighbors were several thousand well-guarded prisoners.(photo illustration 24)
Mao with his third wife, Gui-yuan, in Yenan, 1937. She soon left him and went to Russia. She lived the rest of her life in and out of mental breakdowns.(photo illustration 26)
Mao’s two surviving sons at the special school for children of foreign Communist leaders at Ivanovo, outside Moscow. An-ying, the eldest son, is the tall boy in the middle row, center. The banner above the portrait of Mao reads: “Long live the Communist International — the Organiser of the Struggle for the Victory of the Workers!”(photo illustration 27)