Edited sentence: According to people like Jung Chang, he would coax young women to visit him in a private room and then encourage them to sex with him.At the same time, contemporary views about him in the PRC are affected by bans on works that criticise Mao heavily.Critics also pointed out that much of the steel produce was useless, as it had been made from scrap metal.Dr Chang also said that he deliberately used this third wife, the infamous "Madame Mao", as a means of attacking his enemies, without linking himself to the consequences of unfair punishment.Famine set in and the Great Leap started to fail.He had three wives and even more mistresses, producing an unknown of illegitimate children, whom he left without any support.His supposed support for women's rights has also been criticised in light of his "record" with women.However, propaganda about the success of the Great Leap led to people pretending it was more successful than it really was, with tales of impossibly large vegetables being produced.In order to fill the factories, Mao had ordered many of the peasants to leave the fields, so the crops weren't collected.Many say that, whatever he said in public, Mao used women to his own ends.Those who tried to inform the central authorities about problems during the Great Leap were pressured to be silent or even detained