Chapter 39 Shangguan Yunzhu and Jiang Qing September 1963

Journalist: “Shangguan Yunzhu facilitated you to let Jiang Qing openly on stage to become the wife of the President?”

Mao: “Yes, Shangguan Yunzhu is the first beauty in Shanghai, movie star, I like her very much, in Shanghai, Ke Qingshi, Zhang Chunqiao introduced her to me, she was born beautiful, but also has a cultural upbringing, very rare, I returned to Beijing, she wrote me a letter, but the letter somehow fell into the hands of Jiang Qing, Jiang Qing took the letter to not cry or yell, but complained that married me for 20 years, and now into the closed palace, Wang Guangmei visit abroad with Liu Shaoqi more than 10 times, look very splendid, she’s not even on the newspaper. I understood that she had to hand over the letter with conditions.

I took the opportunity of receiving the Indonesian president, Mrs. Sukarno, in two days, i.e. 1963.9.29, to give her a letter in my wife’s name to attend the reception and publish it in the newspaper, and she gave me the letter from Shangguan Yunzhu.

As soon as it was published in the newspaper, Jiang Qing became “Mrs. Mao Zedong” and openly participated in political activities. The ‘three rules and regulations’ set by the Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee during the Yan’an period were thus broken by me.

Journalist: “The three rules and regulations could not be applied to you?”

Mao: “Yes, the three rules and regulations of 1939, although I was the actual leader at that time, but still can not dictate, now I am the long-lasting master, as early as the lawlessness, the three rules and regulations are just nothing! I am the only who has say.”