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The Soong sisters [note 1], Soong Ai-ling, Soong Ching-ling, and Soong Mei-ling, were three prominent women in modern Chinese history. Of Hakka descent, with ancestral roots in Wenchang , Hainan , they were raised as Christians in Shanghai and educated in the United States.
The Soong Sisters is a 1997 Hong Kong historical drama film based on the lives of the Soong sisters from 1911 to 1949. The three sisters married the most important historical figures – Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and K'ung Hsiang-hsi – in the founding of the Republic of China, making their family the focal point of every major decision made in modern Chinese history.
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.
Soong Ai-ling (traditional Chinese: 宋蔼齡 or 宋靄齡; simplified Chinese: 宋蔼龄 or 宋靄龄; pinyin: Sòng Àilíng; July 15, 1889 – October 20, 1973), legally Soong E-ling or Eling Soong, Christian name Nancy, was a Chinese businesswoman, the eldest of the Soong sisters and the wife of H. H. Kung (Kung Hsiang-Hsi), who was the richest man in the early 20th century Republic of China.
Soong sisters and Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing (1942) The three Soong sisters made public appearances in Hong Kong in favour of relief work until 1940, when the Japanese radio stated that they would evacuate rather than join the Chinese government in Chongqing to endure the war conditions. [ 52 ]
The mourners included prominent party leaders, high-ranking officials, military officers in Qingdao, and notable businesspeople. When the coffin was transferred, it was carried by T. V. Soong, her eldest son, along with a team of 64 bearers. The Soong sisters and other family members followed in carriages at the end of the procession.
Jonathan Yet Wing Soong, 34, worked as a program administrator for the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) between April 2016 and September 2020. USRA is contracted by NASA to ...
The three Soong sisters in their youth, with Soong Ching-ling in the middle, and Soong Ai-ling and Soong Mei-ling on her left and right. Soong Ching-ling and Sun Yat-sen wedding photo (1915). Soong Mei-ling and General Chiang Kai-shek wedding photo (1927); he was a successor to Sun Yat-sen as President of the Republic of China and a descendant ...