Mao Sinyu, Mao's grandson

Mao Zedong’s only living grandson Mao Xinyu has suggested that the ideas of China’s Great Helmsman were being misused by groups such as the Maoists in India, who were invoking his image to wage violence against the state.

Mao Xinyu, who is a Major General in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is known in China as a scholar on Mao Zedong Thought. His father, Mao Anqing, was the second son from Mao’s marriage to Yang Kaihui.  MORE