Shao Hua

Age: 69

Summary: Chinese photographer and daughter-in-law of the late Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong who was married to Mao's last surviving second son Mao Anquing (d. 2007), but who began taking photographs in the 1950's and traveled throughout China shooting old revolutionary bases, factories, impoverished villages, schools, and army units after the country's civil war before she became a major general in the People's Liberation Army.

Cause of Death: Lengthy illness

Born: October 30, 1938

Died: June 24, 2008

Location: Beijing, China