Free Archive | A Life Besieged by Power and Lineage: The “Puppet” File of Mao Xinyu
In the Qingming Festival of 2026, when Mao Xinyu, the grandson of Mao Zedong, was祭祖 in Shaoshan, an unexpected incident occurred on the scene: a woman knelt down and handed over a petition. This scene is not only a simple expectation of the descendants of the “great savior” by the grassroots petitioners, but also a profound political metaphor. As China’s most well-known “red third generation”, Mao Xinyu’s life has been carefully arranged by Zhou Enlai and other CCP veterans since his birth. He is not only a beneficiary of the power-granted system, but also a “prisoner” of this system.

