Danwei has some photos of the descendants of Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek.

I hope that uniform Mao Xinyu is stretching out isn’t a historical artifact from his family closet.

He spoke to a Reuters reporter about his book about his grandfather.

Xinyu, for his part, did a rare run of interviews and book signings to promote his new anecdotal history, Grandpa Mao Zedong.

The paperback has sold several tens of thousands of copies, the Ph.D. replied modestly when asked. Later he suggested, “I’ll give you the rights. You can translate it!”

Alas, the reporter does not seem to have taken him up on that offer.

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