Li Na or Li Ne, is the daughter of Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...

 and his fourth wife Jiang Qing

Jiang Qing

Jiang Qing was the pseudonym that was used by Chinese leader Mao Zedong's last wife and major Communist Party of China power figure. She went by the stage name Lan Ping during her acting career, and was known by various other names during her life...

, and their only child together. Her surname

Surname

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 is Li

Li (surname)

Li is a common transliteration of several Chinese family names, including 李 , the most common Chinese family name, and the Korean family name Lee...

 rather than Mao, because her father used the pseudonym "Li Desheng" for a period of time during the Chinese Civil War

Chinese Civil War

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The names of Li Na and her sister Li Min

Li Min

Li Min , original name Mao Jiaojiao , is the daughter of Mao Zedong, former chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the Peoples' Republic of China and his second wife, He Zizhen...

 come from Book 4 of the Analects of Confucius

Confucius

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: "ne yu yan er min yu xing" (讷于言而敏于行, meaning slow in speech and earnest in conduct).

Biography

Li Na was born in Yan'an

Yan'an

Yan'an , is a prefecture-level city in the Shanbei region of Shaanxi province in China, administering several counties, including Zhidan County , which served as the Chinese communist capital before the city of Yan'an proper took that role....

 in 1940. She graduated from Peking University

Peking University

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 in 1966. After graduation, she worked in PLA Daily

PLA Daily

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She was a member of the 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of China

National Congress of the Communist Party of China

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 in 1973, and the Party Chief of CPC Pinggu County Committee and Deputy Secretary of CPC Beijing

Beijing

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 Committee from 1974 to 1975.

Since 2003, Li Na has been a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference [], shortened as 人民政协, Rénmín Zhèngxié, i.e. "People's PCC"; or just 政协, Zhèngxié, i.e. "The PCC"), abbreviated CPPCC, is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China...

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