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Luo Yixiu

1889 - 1910

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Luo Yixiu (Chinese: 羅一秀; 20 October 1889 – 11 February 1910) was the first wife of Chinese communist revolutionary and future leader of China, Mao Zedong, to whom she was married from 1908 until her death. Coming from the area around Shaoshan, Hunan, in south central China – the same region as Mao – her family were impoverished local landowners. Most of what is known about their marriage comes from an account Mao gave to the American reporter Edgar Snow in 1936, which Snow included in his book Red Star Over China. According to Mao, he and Luo Yixiu were the subject of an arranged marriage organised by their respective fathers, Mao Yichang and Luo Helou. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luo Yixiu is the 2,575th most popular writer (up from 3,225th in 2019), the 652nd most popular biography from China (up from 753rd in 2019) and the 68th most popular Chinese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Luo Yixiu ranks 2,575 out of 7,302. Before her are Margit Sandemo, Picander, Vasile Alecsandri, Charlotte Buff, Malik Muhammad Jayasi, and Walter Bagehot. After her are William Peter Blatty, Theodore Abu Qurrah, Joseph Görres, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, John the Lydian, and Stanisław Konarski.

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Among people born in 1889, Luo Yixiu ranks 117. Before her are Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Isak Samokovlija, Maximilian de Angelis, Musidora, Frank Lentini, and Rezső Seress. After her are Ludwig Kübler, Khudiram Bose, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Charles Kay Ogden, and Sewall Wright. Among people deceased in 1910, Luo Yixiu ranks 52. Before her are Boutros Ghali, Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Wilhelm Raabe, Mary Baker Eddy, Reginald Doherty, and Emmanuel Frémiet. After her are Winslow Homer, Gustave Moynier, Princess Marie of the Netherlands, Hormuzd Rassam, Laza Kostić, and Edouard Van Beneden.

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In China

Among people born in China, Luo Yixiu ranks 652 out of 1,610. Before her are Song Yingxing (1587), James Tien (1942), Zhu of Xia (null), Zhang Zeduan (1085), Pei Songzhi (372), and Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (1938). After her are Liu Penzi (11), Guan Daosheng (1262), Jung Chang (1952), Gan Ji (101), Zhang Zhidong (1837), and Lu Xiufu (1236).

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Luo Yixiu ranks 68. Before her are Zhou Daguan (1266), Tian Han (1898), Gu Yanwu (1613), Tang Xianzu (1550), Sogyal Rinpoche (1947), and Song Yingxing (1587). After her are Guan Daosheng (1262), Jung Chang (1952), Han Suyin (1917), Xue Tao (768), Sima Tan (-165), and Xu Zhimo (1897).

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