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8 Danish prime minister: interview with Mr. and Mrs. Hartling, 20 Nov. 1993. American swimmers: Zhang Ying, pp. 133–4 (remarks not to Witke). “masses too excited”: Witke 1977, p. 303n. Nixon on Mme Mao: Nixon, p. 570; cf. interviews with Ford, 15 Apr. 1995, and Haig, 1 May 1995.

9 –592 Envious looks at Marcos: interview with Imelda Marcos, 17 Mar. 1994; Du & Gu, pp. 504, 521. “national costume”: interview with two members of Mao’s personal staff, Oct. 2000; Yang Yinlu, in BNC, 1998, no. 6, p. 66. Currying favor with girlfriends: Guo Jinrong, pp. 119–20; Chen & Zhao, pp. 196–201. 82nd birthday: Guo Jinrong, pp. 110–15.

10 –593 Girlfriends no royal mistresses: multiple interviews with girlfriends; Guo Jinrong, pp. 44–6, 122–3, 132–3. Turning Mao down: interview with an insider, 21 Oct. 2000.

11 –594 Li Na letter: Li Xiangwen, pp. 555–6. “listen to gunfire”: Yan Changlin, p. 52. Li Na at University: conversation with Li Na, 25 Mar. 1993.

12 On army newspaper: interview with a colleague of hers, 23 Sept. 1994; BNC, 1999, no. 2, pp. 42–54; Mu Xin, pp. 348–50; Zhe Yongping et al., pp. 1–5. Predecessor to jail: Mu Xin, in ZDZ, no. 69, pp. 83–9. Controller of Peking: Yang Yinlu, p. 128. Nervous breakdown: ibid., pp. 125–33; interview with a friend of hers who visited her, 4 Sept. 1994.

13 Marriage and son: Yang Yinlu, pp. 128–40; former husband Xu Zhiming article, in “Mao and I” Collection Committee 1993b, pp. 251–62; interviews with a relative and a former servant, 25 Sept. 1993, 19 Sept. 1994.

14 –596 “my little foreigner”: Wang Xingjuan 1993, p. 120. Mao refused to see her: ibid., pp. 265–6; interviews with members of Mao’s personal staff, 19 Oct. 1993, 24 Oct. 1995, 19 Apr. 1999. Son not counted as family: ibid., interviews. Yuan-xin: Li Xiangwen, pp. 600–2. Zhang Zhi-xin: Yan & Gao, p. 276; PRC Encyclopaedia, vol. 4, pp. 4822–47.

15 trade-off: Yang Zhaolin, p. 292. For detail see below. Mme Mao’s end: interviews with people close to Mao family; Li Xiangwen, pp. 153–6; Witke 1991, pp. 52, 54–5; Rittenberg & Bennett, pp. 428–30 (in Qincheng prison).

CHAPTER 57 Enfeebled Mao Hedges His Bets

1 Nine minutes meeting: Mao Mao 1993, p. 643.

2 “keeping a respectful distance”: Mao CCRM & ARL, pp. 3691, 3696; Yu Shicheng, p. 239. Mao tried to keep Deng on board: Wang Jiaxiang’s widow told us that, in autumn 1965, Chou came to brief her husband about the forthcoming Cultural Revolution, and said that Mao’s plan was to replace Liu Shao-chi with either Lin Biao or Deng: interview with Zhu Zhongli, 28 Sept. 1993. Cf. Zhu Zhongli 1995, p. 224; Mao CCRM & ARL, pp. 3691, 3696; Mao Mao 2000, pp. 40, 49; Li Xuefeng, in CCP Archive Study Office 1998, pp. 223–5;

Wang Li 1993, pp. 5, 63 (E: id. 1994, pp. 16, 49). “differentiate him from Liu”: Mao Mao 2000, p. 69.

3 Mrs. Deng told step-mother: interview with Deng’s step-mother, Xia Bogen, 11 Sept. 1985. Most painful time: Deng 1993, p. 54. Screaming during nightmare: interview with Deng’s step-mother.

4 –600 Declined to advertize Mao’s innocence: Huang Wenhua et al., pp. 92–3. Australians noted: FitzGerald interview, 22 Jan. 1993. Deng comeback: Huang, J., pp. 328ff; Zhu, pp. 208ff.

5 Mao dubbed “Gang of Four”: Chinese Communist Party, p. 364. Deng alliance with army chief Yeh: interview with a Yeh family member, 2 Nov. 1993. Sun Wei-shi: interviews with a member of Chou’s staff, 20 Sep. 1994, and with Shi Zhe, 29 Sept. 1993, 7 Sept. 1994; Li Yong et al., pp. 162–8; Zhou 1997, vol. 3, p. 264.