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Song Dong (Chinese: 宋冬, born 1966) is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installations, performance, photography and video.He has been involved in many solo and group exhibitions around the world, covering a range of themes and topics including his relationship with his family and their experience of living in modern China (the topic of his widely exhibited installation ...
In the summer of 1915, Ching-ling returned to Shanghai, asking her parents for their permission to marry Sun, which shocked the family. [18] Ching-ling was confined at home in Shanghai, during which Sun divorced with his wife Lu Mu-zhen. [19] Despite objections from her father, [20] Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen on 25 October 1915. [21]
In Taiwan, it was until 1965 when there was the first biography in Taiwan to mention Soong Ching-ling as the wife of Sun Yat-sen. [80] The majority of people, except for those who had fled from the mainland, were unaware of Soong Ching-ling until the lifting of martial law in 1987, despite the widespread personality cult surrounding Sun Yat-sen.
Janice Dong, Ron’s wife, told Ballinger Gardner Kemp, 77, and Lauren Kemp Few, 66, the Thompsons’ great-grandchildren. The two families embraced in a tangle of open arms. Ron Dong grew up in ...
Soong Mei-ling (also spelled Soong May-ling; March 4, 1898 [1] – October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang (Chinese: 蔣夫人), was a Chinese political figure.The youngest of the Soong sisters, she married Chiang Kai-shek and played a prominent role in Chinese politics and foreign relations in the first half of the 20th century.
The Thompsons, a Black couple, rented to the Dongs, a Chinese American family, 85 years ago when nobody else would. Now, the Dongs are donating $5 million to Black college students because they ...
Born in 1938, Song Dong's mother Zhao Xiangyuan was a member of a prosperous family that fell on hard times after Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China in 1949. His maternal grandfather was an officer in the Kuomintang (KMT), the nationalist party that ruled much of China from 1928 until its retreat to Taiwan in 1949 after being ...
Gus and Emma Thompson rented to the Dong family when no one else would. Decades later the Dongs have found a way to say thanks with a $5-million gift. A Black couple defied racism by renting to a ...