Shao Hua (30 October 1938 – 24 June 2008), formerly known as Zhang Shaohua (), was a Chinese photographer and a major general in the

People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...

. She was the wife of Mao Anqing, the second son of Mao Zedong.

Biography

She was born as Chen Anyun () in October 1938 in Yan'an, Shaanxi, the headquarters of Mao Zedong's Communist Party following the Long March. Her father was Chen Zhenhua, who was from Shimin, Hunan. Her mother was Zhang Wenqiu, who was from Jingshan County, Hubei. Shao began working as a photographer in the 1950s using a camera which had been brought to her from the Soviet Union by Mao Zedong's eldest son, Mao Anying. She traveled extensively throughout China following the Chinese Civil War. The subjects of her photographs were often related to the government of the Communist movement, including factories and other factors of production, army units, schools, and poor rural Chinese villages. She became the head of the

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(CPA) in 2002 and served in that position until her death in 2008. Shao was a major general in the

. She served as the director of the military encyclopedia department of the

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. Shao was a member of the National Committee of the

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(CPPCC) from 1988 to 2002, when she began displaying her photographs publicly. Shao married Mao Anqing, Mao Zedong's second son and a Russian linguist, in September 1960. The couple had one son, Mao Xinyu. Her husband had no active role in the Chinese government. Mao Anqing died on 23 March 2007, at the age of 84. Her son Mao Xinyu and his wife, Liu Bin, have one son

Mao Dongdong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also 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 founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...

who was born in 2003, the only great-grandson of Mao Zedong. Shao Hua died in Beijing due to breast cancer on 24 June 2008, at the age of 69.

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