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Show life, often shutting himself up for weeks or months, reading, studying, and contemplating. Hestill travels in the countryside, however, and makes a point of mingling with the people and asking personal questions, though there is an increasing air of aloof superiority about him. UT MORE AND MORE,the manis becomB ing mixed with the legends that have grown up a¥out him. Of the greatpolitical leaders of today, Mao Tse-Tung is certainly the one about whom hard facts are most difficult to establish. He disdains ostentation. His “uniform” is a gray jacket, buttoned to the throat, and a plain.cap, such as a London taxi _ driver might wear. When at home, he lives with his family—his wife and two teen-age daughters who are learning ballet dancing—in a lovely little one-story marble palace with a roof of traditional imperial-yellow tile, built on a terrace fac- ing one of the three lakes whichlie in the gardens behind the New China Gate. This palace has a romantic name out of the past—it is known as the Palace of the Fragrant-Concubine.The Emperor Ch’ien Lungbuilt it two centuries ago to house the Princess Hsiang Fei, a Turki lady of extraordinary beauty whom the Emperor brought to Peking as part of the spoils of war from his conquest of Turkistan. Mao, who, as I already remarked, has given China its first strong centralized government since Ch’ien Lung’s day, apparently-also shares that Emperor’s taste for vivacious, intelligent women. He has been married three times, discounting the legend of-achild-bride forced upon-him by. his father at the age of 14. His present wife, Lan P’ing, is a movie actress from Shanghai whom Mao married in Yenen in 1939. The two daughters are her children. Mao also has a grown son byhisfirst wife, Yang K’aihui, daughter of his philosophy professor at Peking University, whom he courted in his student days. She was killed in 1928 during a Kuomintang purge of Communists and y to him; he abhors weakness and sees Khrushchev’s “coexistence” as weakness. Mao’s obsession with brute strength goes back to his childhood. i When he was 13 years old, there was a famine in his native Hunan province. Starving peasants, who were refused help by a callous governor, broke into the provincial granary and carried off rice to feed their families. Several were executed and their heads displayed on poles as a warning. Furiously indignant, young Mao demanded of his father, “They had a rightto do as they did. Why werethey punished?” Said his father, grimly, “My son, they were punished for being too weak to defend their rights.” Mao has never forgotten that lesson; even today he occasionally says, “China never again will be punished for being weak, as she used to be.” Mao has chosen as his personalresidence the traditional power-center of the Chinese nation—the ForbiddenCity, the inner quarter of the ancient imperial capital, Peking. He lives a curiously withdrawn their relatives. Three other children—presumably born of his second wife, Ho Tzu-chun, a former schoolteacher, from whom Mao was divorced in 1937—hadto be left with friendly peasants during the hardships of the famous Long March; such were the internal disorders of that time that no trace of them could be found afterward. Mao » Tse-Tung knows personal bereavement. 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