Mao Fumei | |
Native Name: | 毛福梅 |
Birth Date: | 9 November 1882 |
Birth Place: | Fenghua, Zhejiang, Qing China |
Death Place: | Xikou, Zhejiang, Republic of China |
Children: | Chiang Ching-kuo |
Father: | Mao Dinghe (毛鼎和) |
Mao Fumei (Chinese: c=毛福梅|p=Máo Fúméi, 9 November 1882 – 12 December 1939) was the first wife of Chiang Kai-shek, and the biological mother of Chiang Ching-Kuo.
Mao was born in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and, like most women of the era, she was illiterate. She married Chiang Kai-shek in an arranged marriage in 1901.[1] [2] When Chiang came back from Japan, he divorced her in 1921.[3] She was killed in 1939 in a Japanese air raid on the in Xikou.[4]