A web of intrigue and control, all the more fantastic because it all happened.
Soong marries into a family San Francisco Bankers. Sun Yat-sen was a bumbler, Chiang Kai-shek was a schemer. It's definitely a case of truth being stranger than fiction.
One Soong sister married Sun Yat-sen, one married Chiang Kai-shek. Soong marries into a New York banking family and, financier T.L. Top notch The Soong family is a wonderful key hole through which to observe US-China relations from 1880 to 1950 or so. Kung revolutionary Ai-ling marries Amercian educated, founding father Sun Yat-sen Wellesly educated First Lady May-ling is wife to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek Prime Minister T.V. Seagrave really puts it to them flat out calling them crooks and thugs. About the Author Sterling Seagrave (born 1937) is the author of thirteen non-fiction histories and biographies, many co-authored with his wife, Peggy Seagrave. Specular Ai-ling weds finance minister H.H. I liked Seagrave’s Soong Dynasty better I think because she fled China as a young woman under Mao that she comes off as glossing over how much wealth the Soong clan stole from China. Behind the scenes is Big-eared Tu of the Green Gang. It all began with Charlie Soong, a runaway raised in America under the protection of the Methodist church, and became a Bible publisher and godson of American industrialist Julian Carr. Biographical history of the Soong family, whose wealth and power dominated China, and American foreign policy towards Asia for the first half of the 20th century. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright, Black linen boards/Fine w/trace discoloration to lower edges.
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