Editing Jiang Qing (section)

==Early life==
<!-- There is no official record of Jiang Qing's birth date. Far leftist researcher Zhang Hongliang mentioned on his blog in 2013 that this was due to the fact that the government wanted to avoid anyone from memorising her. Zhang claimed that she was born on 5 March 1914, but there is no reliable sources to confirm this so far. -->Jiang Qing was born in [[Zhucheng]], [[Shandong]], in March 1914. She deliberately kept her exact birth date private to avoid receiving any gifts.{{Sfn|Sisyphus|2015a|p=56}} Her father was Li Dewen,{{Efn|{{lang-zh|t=李德文|p=Lǐ Déwén|w=li3 tê2  wên2}}}} a carpenter, and her mother, whose name is unknown,{{Sfn|Terrill|1999|p=16}} was Li's subsidiary wife, or [[concubine]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XOGdnCPJSOMC&q=jiang+qing+mother&pg=PA259|title=中國婦女傳記詞典: The Twentieth Century, 1912–2000|last=Lee|first=Lily Xiao Hong|date=1998|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=9780765607980}}</ref>{{Sfn|Terrill|1999|p=16}} Her father had his own carpentry and cabinet making workshop.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Terrill |first=Ross |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyE7BAAAQBAJ&q=madame+mao+mother's+name+unknown&pg=PT15 |title=The Life of Madame Mao |publisher=New Word City |year=2014 |isbn=9781612306520}}</ref> Her parents were married after her father initially found his first wife unable to [[Fertilisation|conceive]].{{Sfn|Sisyphus|2015a|p=31}}

As a child, Jiang was deeply traumatised by the [[domestic violence]] inflicted by her father, who verbally and physically abused her mother almost every day. One [[Lantern Festival]], after her father broke her mother's finger during an attack, her mother fled with Jiang under the cover of darkness.{{Sfn|Sisyphus|2015a|p=31}}{{Sfn|Terrill|1999|p=17}} Her mother found work as a domestic servant that often blurred the lines with prostitution,  and her husband separated from her.<ref name="Fox1">{{cite web |last=Butterfield |first=Fox |date=4 March 1984 |title=Butterfield, Fox. "Lust, Revenge, and Revolution". ''The New York Times''. 4 March 1984. Retrieved 10 June 2011. p. 1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/04/books/lust-revenge-and-revolution.html?pagewanted=1 |access-date=13 December 2012 |work=[[The New York Times]] |archive-date=3 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903162300/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/04/books/lust-revenge-and-revolution.html?pagewanted=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Sfn|Terrill|1999|p=19}}

Jiang eventually moved with her mother to her grandparents' home in Jinan. However, they soon returned to Zhucheng, as her mother continued to seek [[Inheritance|inheritance rights]], or financial support, from her husband's family, which proved extremely difficult. During this period, Jiang attended two primary schools with disruptions, where she was often mocked for wearing outdated, boyish clothing from her brothers. She became silent and not easy to open up.{{Sfn|Terrill|1999|p=18}}

Her mother, having fallen ill, eventually abandoned hope of obtaining further financial support from her husband. After selling some of her belongings, she purchased a train ticket, and together with Jiang, boarded a train from [[Jiaozhou City|Jiaoxian]] to [[Jinan]]. There, Jiang was welcomed by her grandparents and resumed her primary education.{{Sfn|Terrill|1999|p=|pp=20-21}} In 1926–1927, her mother took her further north to Tianjin to stay with her half-sister. During this time, Jiang worked as a housekeeper in the household. She proposed taking a job rolling cigarettes, but the family disapproved. Later they returned to Jinan, where her mother died in 1928.{{Sfn|Terrill|1999|p=22|pp=}}