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	Soong May-ling -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Soong May-ling met (Chinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war that followed World War II he was defeated by the Chinese communists and in 1949 was forced to withdraw to Taiwan where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death (1897-1975)) Chiang Kai-shek in 1920.
		Soong sold her (An island in southeastern New York; Brooklyn and Queens are on its western end) Long Island estate in 2000 and spent the rest of her life in her Gracie Square apartment surrounded only by fl-suited bodyguards who cleared the lobby as she passed.
		Soong died in her (One of the five boroughs of New York City) Manhattan apartment in 2003 at the age of 105 or 106.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/soong_may-ling.htm (850 words)

	Soong. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Soong Yao-ju or Charles Jones Soong, 1866–1918, graduated from Vanderbilt Univ. and, after returning to China (1886), was a Methodist missionary in Shanghai.
		Soong, 1894–1971, his most distinguished son, was educated at Harvard and later (1917–23) engaged in private business in China.
		Soong Ai-ling, 1890–1973, graduated from Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga. She married K’ung Hsiang-hsi and engaged in child welfare work.
	www.bartleby.com /65/so/Soong.html (380 words)

	Asia's iron women ... - Oct. 28, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The interest in the Soong sisters shouldn't be surprising: their colorful lives were in a sense the original long-playing Chino-novela, complete with all the intriguing twists and turns through China's byzantine corridors of power.
		Soong Qing-ling's politics were Left-leaning and she remained in China after the communists took over, eventually becoming honorary chairperson of the People's Republic.
		Soong Mei-ling spoke English with a southern American drawl, acquired in Georgia, and later went to Boston's Wellesley College where she majored in English.
	www.inq7.net /opi/2003/oct/28/text/opi_mltan-1-p.htm (861 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Madame Chiang Kai-shek Dies; Chinese Chief's Powerful Widow
		Born Soong Mei-ling in Shanghai, Madame Chiang was the youngest and the last survivor of the legendary Soong sisters, each of whom played a vital role in China during the first half of the last century.
		Her eldest sister, Soong Ai-ling, married H.H. Kung and was said to have been a figure of immense power and influence during his career as a financier and later finance minister and premier of China.
		Their brother, T.V. Soong, was a Chinese businessman and financier who had also been foreign minister, finance minister and premier and by the late 1940s was thought to be one of the richest men in the world.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A14571-2003Oct24?language=printer (1373 words)

	Madame Soong Mei-ling Remembered by All Chinese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Madame Soong Mei-ling, widow of the late Chiang Kai-shek and an influential historical and legendary figure in modern Chinese history, won the recognition of historians and political advisors as well as people from all walks of life on the mainland after she passed away peacefully last week.
		Madame Soong Mei-ling persisted in the idea of one China and maintained the reunification of China all along, and she was opposed to Lee Teng-hui's idea of "independent Taiwan" in her late years, according to mainland historians.
		For the general public on the Chinese mainland, Madame Soong was a sophisticated and beautiful woman with strong historic and legendary qualities, who had been involved in some of the most tumultuous events of last century, as she was portrayed in history classes, biographies and movies.
	www.chinataiwan.org /web/webportal/W2037304/Uadmin/A5311210.html (764 words)

	Encyclopedia: Soong May-ling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Soong Ching-ling (Simplified Chinese: å®‹åº†é¾„; Traditional Chinese: å®‹æ…¶é½¡; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Sung Ching-ling) (January 27, 1893 - May 29, 1981) was one of the Soong sistersâ€”three sisters whose husbands were amongst Chinas most significant political figures of the early 20th century.
		Soong Chu-yu James Chu-yu Soong (å®‹æ¥šç‘œ Wade-Giles: Sung Chu-yÃ¼; pinyin: SÃ²ng ChÇ”yÃº; born March 16, 1942) is a politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan.
		Soong died in New York City, in her Manhattan apartment in 2003 at the age of 106.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Soong-May_ling (3001 words)

	Guardian \| Madame Chiang Kai-shek
		Soong Mei-ling (or May-ling, Madame Chiang Kai-shek), who has died aged 106, commanded the longest entry in Taiwan's official Who's Who for years after she had become a figure of the past.
		She was both formidable by herself, and shared the awesome reputation of the Soong dynasty - the five brothers and sisters whose lives became interwoven with the politics (on both sides) of revolutionary China.
		For his part, TV Soong's reward for consenting to his sister's marriage was to become finance minister in the new Nationalist government in Nanking, from which post he built an unrivalled position, frequently at the expense of the Chinese national interest.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4782346-108142,00.html (1510 words)

	Soong <br> <!doctype Html Public (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling (pinyin: SÃ²ng MilÃng 2003), one of the three Soong sisters.
		Women of the twentieth century, Mayling Soong was born in March, 1897, in Shanghai.
		Soong Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave This is an excellent, though highly partisan, look at the Soong family in all of its machinations Only one of the three Soong sisters comes off well.
	www.99hosted.com /names16022.html (423 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Soong
		Soong, wealthy Chinese family that played an influential role in the government of the Republic of China.
		Soong, Charlie (1866-1918), Chinese businessman, supporter of Kuomintang (KMT) founder Sun Yat-sen, and patriarch of one of the most influential...
		Soong, T. Soong, T. (1894-1971), Chinese financier and important figure in the financial sector of China’s Kuomintang (KMT) government.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Soong.html (85 words)

	Soong on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Soong Yao-ju or Charles Jones Soong, 1866-1918, graduated from Vanderbilt Univ. and, after returning to China (1886), was a Methodist missionary in Shanghai.
		Soong Tzu-wen, better known as T. Soong, 1894-1971, his most distinguished son, was educated at Harvard and later (1917-23) engaged in private business in China.
		Soong Ai-ling, 1890-1973, graduated from Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga. She married K'ung Hsiang-hsi and engaged in child welfare work.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Soong.asp (737 words)

	Soong Ching Ling
		Soong Ching-Ling was born in Shanghai on the 27th of January...
		Soong Ching-Ling was the wife of Sun Yat-sen and the sister of Soong Mei-ling (wife of Chiang Kai-shek...
		Soong Ching-Ling was born in Shanghai on the 27th of...
	www.which-tarot.com /143/soong-ching-ling.html (900 words)

	Soong May-ling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		(However, it should be noted that James Soong himself had never disputed the authenticity of the letter, which might have been written as a payback for James Soong's veiled criticism of her earlier, in support of Lee.)
		Soong sold her Long Island estate in 2000 and spent the rest of her life in her Gracie Square apartment surrounded only by fl-suited bodyguards who cleared the lobby as she passed.
		Soong died in New York City, in her Manhattan apartment in 2003 at the age of 105 or 106.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soong_May-ling (1069 words)

	Madame Soong Mei-ling's Life in Her Old Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Madame Soong Mei-ling, one of the most influential Chinese women of the 20th century, died at the age of 106 in her apartment in Manhattan, New York Oct. 23, 2003.
		Madame Soong was born in Shanghai in 1897.
		Madame Soong's charisma and political adeptness were among the driving forces of the KMT leadership of her husband Chiang Kai-shek.
	www.china.org.cn /english/NM-e/79495.htm (1025 words)

	Wesleyan College: First for Women: The Soong Sisters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Soong’s blessing for marriage to her daughter, on the conditions that he divorce his present wife — and that he convert to Christianity.
		The May-ling Soong Chiang Scholarship, to be awarded to Chinese students, was established at Wesleyan in March 1944 by the Methodist Laymen of the South Georgia Conference.
		The legacy of the Soong sisters is still felt the world over--and the memories of this trio of sisters live on, at Wesleyan and around the globe.
	www.wesleyancollege.edu /firstforwomen/soong (3697 words)

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		Madame Chiang, also known as Soong Mei-ling, had lived in semi-seclusion after President Chiang Kai-shek's death in 1975, spending much of the time in her Manhattan apartment.
		Her father, Charles Soong, was educated as a Christian missionary at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
		Soong worked closely with Dr. Sun Yat-sen, leader of the Nationalist revolution that overthrew China's last emperor in 1911.
	www.wjxx.com /news/news-article.aspx?storyid=9715 (802 words)

	Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Dies
		Soong Mei-ling's rise to power began when she married Chiang Kai-shek in an opulent ceremony in Shanghai in 1927, bringing together China's star military man with one of the nation's most illustrious families.
		Her eldest sister, Soong Ai-ling, directed the family's affairs and innumerable money-making ventures with the help of her husband, H.H. Kung, a scion of one of China's wealthiest banking families.
		When General Chiang renewed his interest in Soong Mei-ling in 1927, she told him that she would consent to marry only if he could win the approval of her mother, who had reservations about a man who was neither Christian nor single.
	chinese-school.netfirms.com /Madame_Chiang_KS.html (3286 words)

	Marriage of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On December 1, 1927, Soong and Chiang held a private religious wedding ceremony in the Soong mansion, which was on Seymour Road (now Shaanxi Beilu).
		The bride was led down the red carpet by her brother, T.V. Soong, who later became finance minister in the Kuomintang government.
		Soong, however, was beautiful in her western-style bridal gown made of white satin and lace.
	app1.chinadaily.com.cn /star/2001/0614/cu18-2.html (417 words)

	Soong Mei Ling's old residence attracts trendsetters
		Born in Shanghai, Soong was the youngest of the famous three Soong sisters, whose husbands were among China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.
		T.V. Soong, brother to the sisters, bought the house from a foreign owner as a dowry for his youngest sister.
		After 1949, Soong never returned to Shanghai, the place where she was born and grew up.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-07/14/content_348219.htm (655 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Soong was taken in by Methodists in North Carolina and converted to Christianity in hopes of sending him back to spread the word of Jesus in China.
		Soong Qing-ling, as Sun Yat-sen's widow, led a faction of Nationalists who voted to expel General Chiang from all his posts.
		Her father, Charles Soong, was educated in the US, and both she and her two sisters received a western education, unusual for Chinese women at the time.Her sister, Ching-ling, married Sun Yat-sen, seen as the father of modern China.
	gramsci.myweb.hinet.net /Special1.htm (3736 words)

	Soong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Charlie Soong (1866-1918), the family father, was a Methodist missionary who became a successful merchant.
		Charlie's eldest son, T. Soong (1894-1977), founded the Central Bank of China in 1924 and helped finance the KMT party.
		Charlie Soong and all his children attended colleges in the United States.
	autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/HistoryMidEastAsiaAustralasia/Soong.html (281 words)

	Soong May ling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the United States, she drew crowds up to 30,000 people and made thefront cover of TIME magazine, first with her husband as " Man and Wife of the Year " and second under the title "Dragon Lady." On February 18, 1943, she became the firstChinese national and second woman to address the UnitedStates Congress.
		After the defeat of her husband's government in the Chinese CivilWar in 1949, Madame Chiang followed her husband to Taiwan, while her sister Soong Ching-ling stayed onthe mainland, siding with the communists.
		Soong sold her Long Island estate in 2000 and spent the rest of her life in her Gracie Square apartment surrounded onlyby fl-suited bodyguards who cleared the lobby as she passed.
	www.therfcc.org /soong-may-ling-39743.html (925 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Soong dynasty connection
		In movies or articles about the Soong sisters, Soong Ai Ling is always shown as having only a supporting role to her two younger sisters, Soong Ching Ling (who married Dr Sun) and Soong Mei Ling (who married Chiang).
		Soong Ching Ling was widowed a few years later and after liberation in 1949 she became the honorary chairwoman of the People's Republic of China.
		Soong Ai Ling had to overcome the strong opposition of Soong Ching Ling and one of her brothers, T.V. Soong, in her efforts to arrange the marriage of Soong Mei Ling and Chiang.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200410/28/eng20041028_161935.html (798 words)

	Piedmont College News & Information
		Born Soong Mei-ling, Madame Chiang was one of the world's most famous and powerful women as she helped her husband fight the Japanese during World War II and later the Chinese Communists.
		While little is clearly known about Soong’s early life, it is known his real name was Chiao-shun and that he came from the Kwangtun Province of China.
		Soong was determined that his children would be educated in the U.S. Mei-ling was the youngest of his three daughters — all known for their beauty and their marriages to some of the most influential men of pre-World War II China.
	www.piedmont.edu /news/jan_04/madame_chiang.html (880 words)

	07 Hess - Reflections On (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		By now, Rev. Soong had not only become a devout Methodist but had also cultivated a network of Southern Methodist friends some of whom resided in Macon, Georgia, a center for Methodism in the Deep South, just as Nashville was in the Middle South.
		SOONG MEI-LING CHIANG’s LIFE IN Their father’s death in 1919 found all three Soong sisters putting their American educations to work for their country’s Nationalist (Kuomintang) Party led by the revolutionary medical doctor Sun Yat-sen. As we know, Ai-ling, the eldest, had been his private secretary from 1909 to 1914.
		She felt Chiang and the whole Soong family and their in-laws had betrayed her late husband’s political legacy by making their government one for China’s small middle-class and not one that would be more egalitarian by broadening the rights of China’s large peasant majority politically, socially, economically, and educationally.
	www.nssa.us /nssajrnl/23_1/htm/07.htm (5127 words)

	Auch2000 - Shanghai, China
		A frequent visitor to the Soong family's home was Sun Yat-sen. Sun Yat-sen wanted to marry Ching-ling Soong, even though he was close to the same age as her father, and was already married to another woman (see photo above).
		T.V. Soong, was not only prime minister of nationalist China, but later became a millionaire by taking advantage of an artificially controlled government currency exchange rate.
		It was rumored that Charlie Soong was murdered by a slow poison.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Shanghai.html (1663 words)

	Sòng Qìnglíng Gùju (Soong Ching-ling's Former Residence) \| Museum/Attraction Review \| ...
		Soong Ching-ling (1893-1981) is revered throughout China as a loyalist to the communist cause.
		Unlike the rest of her family members (the most famous being her youngest sister Soong Mei-ling, who married Chiang Kai-shek) who all fled China after 1949, Soong Ching-ling stayed and was given many important political and cultural posts in the communist government.
		Soong Ching-ling died in Beijing in 1981 but is buried with her parents and her maid in the Wànguó Cemetery in western Shànghai.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/shanghai/A32190.html (329 words)

	A glimpse of Soong Mei-ling's residence in Nanjing - GD People GD Life - Pictures - Newsgd
		A glimpse of Soong Mei-ling's residence in Nanjing
		Madame Soong was born in Shanghai on March 10, 1897.
		She died in New York on the night of Oct. 23, 2003 at the age of 106.
	www.newsgd.com /pictures/peoplelife/200310300013.htm (206 words)

	Soong May-ling - Famous Chinese Women - Chinese
		Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling (宋美齡 pinyin: S?ng Měil?ng) (March 5, 1898^#Notes1 - October 23, 2003), one of the three Soong sisters and described as "the one who loved power".
		The fourth of six children, she was born in either Hainan or Shanghai^#Notes2 to Charlie Soong, a Methodist minister and businessman who made a fortune selling bibles in China.
		After the defeat of her husband's government in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Madame Chiang followed her husband to Taiwan, while her sister Soong Ching-ling stayed on the mainland Chinamainland, siding with the communists.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Soong_May-ling (1011 words)

	Soong Sister Censorship
		Her film, a Hong Kong production made in China, tackles the lives and loves of three sisters from China's prominent Soong family, set against the tumult of a bloody civil war and Japan's invasion of China during the first half of the 20th century.
		The middle sister, Soong Ching-ling, married Sun Yat-sen, revered as the father of modern China.
		As depicted by Cheung, Mei-ling played a central role in Chiang's policy shift in the Chinese city of Xian during the chilly winter of 1936, when he finally formed a pact with the communists to fight the Japanese.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/7288/soongsis.htm (779 words)

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