Chiang Fang-liang
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Faina Chiang Fang-liang, born Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, was the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988 as the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo.
Chiang in 1944
With Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Hsiao-wen in Gannan Prefecture, where Ching-kuo was serving as commissioner (c.1940s)
Mao Fumei
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Mao Fumei was the first wife of Chiang Kai-shek, and the biological mother of Chiang Ching-Kuo.
Chiang Fang-liang
…to the Chiang home in Xikou, Zhejiang, where they held a second marriage ceremony. Fang-liang stayed behind to live with Chiang Ching-kuo's mother, Mao Fumei. She was assigned a tutor to learn Mandarin Chinese, but she learned the local Ningbo dialect of Wu Chinese instead. She reportedly got along well with…
Mao Fumei
Family picture of Mao (left), her mother-in-law Wang Caiyu (middle) holding her son Chiang Ching-kuo (front), and her husband Chiang Kai-Shek (right), taken in 1910
Tablet of Returning Blood with Blood- Promising to avenge his mother's death, Chiang Ching-Kuo had the words "以血洗血" ('wash away blood with blood') carved on a tablet