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T. V. Soong was born at St. Luke's Hospital in the Shanghai International Settlement. [2] He was first educated in Shanghai at St. John's University , and then graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1915. [ 3 ]
3rd, 6th, 9th, 14th, 36th, 87th, 88th, and the Training Division of the Central Military Academy. Also the "Tax Police" regiment (equivalent of a division) under T.V. Soong's Ministry of Finance, later converted to the New 38th Division during the war. [r]12 other Divisions on the reorganized model with 2 German advisors:
In 1969, Ai-ling and Mei-ling attended the funeral of their brother T. A. Soong in San Francisco, but Ching-ling was absent. In 1971, T. V. Soong passed away in San Francisco, and his funeral was scheduled to take place in New York. Mei-ling flew from Taiwan to Hawaii for a stopover, during which Chiang Kai-shek urged her to cancel her trip.
The CDFC leveraged the Soong family connections to access capital in China, including from the Bank of China whose board T. V. Soong chaired from 1935 to 1943. [4] It assembled financing for the completion of the railway from Shanghai to Hangzhou and Ningbo, in partnership with the British and Chinese Corporation.
The Soong family was widely regarded as the wealthiest among the four major families, with T. V. Soong serving as China's finance minister. T. L. Soong was a prominent Chinese diplomat, while T. A. Soong, though less well-known, worked in the banking sector and served as a board member of the Kwangtung Provincial Bank. T. A.
The China Lobby was funded by the Kuomintang through T. V. Soong, one of the wealthiest people in the world, brother-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Republic of China (Taiwan). [3] It was the dominant lobby on China issues until the 1970s. [4]
T. V. Soong Tse-Ven: Chiang Kai-shek: 1931 Chen Mingshu: 1932 Sun Fo: Wang Jingwei: 1933 1934 1935 Chiang Kai-shek: 1936 1937 1938 H. H. Kung Hsiang-hsi: Chiang Kai ...
According to Sherman Cochran of Cornell University, the book puts most of its focus on the KMT, and particularly Du Yuesheng, H. H. Kung, and T.V. Soong rather than on Chiang and on the businesspeople; Du, Kung, and Soong directly dealt with the businesspeople. [2]