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	Soong May-ling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She started college at her sisters' alma mater, Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, but transferred to Wellesley College and graduated with honors in 1917 with a major in English literature and minor in philosophy.
		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)

	Soong Sisters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Soong Ai-ling, the eldest and the one who "loved money," was married to the richest man and finance minister of China, H.
		Soong Ching-ling, the one who "loved China," was married to Father of the Nation and first President of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen.
		Soong May-ling, youngest and the one who "loved power," was married to the leader of the Nationalist Party, Generalissimo of the Chinese armies, and later President, Chiang Kai-shek.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soong_Sisters (519 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Madame Chiang Kai-shek Dies; Chinese Chief's Powerful Widow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	Soong. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In depicting the childhood lives of the Soong sisters, the film includes a scene in which the Soong sisters, led by the equally legendary father Charlie Soong, are singing and dancing in a snowy labyrinth.
		Similarly, Soong Qingling's marriage with Sun Yat-Sen is also initiated by her voice-over of the letter to Soong Meiling, the youngest among the three sisters, which adds a subjective layer to the succeeding scenes.
		Soong Qingling views her marriage with Sun Yat-Sen as an action of "liberating the self" and "liberating a woman." For her, the marriage symbolizes her ability to "walk with my own legs." This awakened consciousness is further enhanced by the scene of several old women with the Three-Inch-Lotus feet chasing after Soong Qingling.
	www.asianfilms.org /china/song.html (2205 words)

	Asia's iron women - Oct. 28, 2003
		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.
		The second sister, Soong Qing-ling (sometimes spelled Ching-ling), was the wife of Sun Yat-sen, who led the Chinese revolution that toppled the Qing dynasty in 1911 and became China's first president.
		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.
	www.inq7.net /opi/2003/oct/28/opi_mltan-1.htm (889 words)

	Wesleyan College: First for Women: The Soong Sisters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	Encyclopedia: Sun Yat-sen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He married Soong Ching-ling, one of the Soong sisters, in Japan on October 25, 1915, without divorcing his first wife Lu Muzhen due to opposition from the Chinese community.
		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.
		His widow, the former Soong Ching-ling, sided with the Communists during the Chinese Civil War and served from 1949 to 1981 as Vice President (or Vice Chairwoman) of the Communist China and as Honorary President shortly before her death in 1981.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sun-Yat_sen (9563 words)

	T. V. Soong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tse-ven Soong, or Soong Tzu-wen (Chinese: 宋子文, pinyin: Sòng Zǐwén; 1894 - 1971), a prominent millionaire businessman and politician in the early 20th Century Republic of China, had Charlie Soong as a father and the Soong sisters as siblings.
		Born in Shanghai, T. Soong received his education at Harvard University and returned to China to engage in private business.
		In the Kuomintang-controlled government he served as governor of the Central Bank of China and minister of finance (1928 - 1931, 1932 - 1933); minister of foreign affairs (1942 - 1945); and president of the Executive Yuan (1945 - 1947).
	www.theezine.net /t/t-v-soong.html (160 words)

	Articles - Soong Ching-ling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Soong Ch'ing-ling (Simplified Chinese: 宋庆龄; Traditional Chinese: 宋慶齡; pinyin: Sòng Qìnglíng; Wade-Giles: Sung Ch'ing-ling) (January 27, 1893 - May 29, 1981) was one of the Soong sisters—three sisters whose husbands were amongst China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.
		She was born to the wealthy businessman and missionary Charlie Soong in Kunshan, Jiangsu, attended Motyeire School for Girls in Shanghai, and graduated from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, United States.
		Unlike her younger sister Soong May-ling, who sided with her husband Chiang Kai-shek and fled to Taiwan, Soong Ching-ling is greatly revered in mainland China.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Soong_Ching-ling (549 words)

	Soong on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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)

	Articles - Charlie Soong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Soong, born Han Jiaozhun (é“æ•æº—) in Hainan as the third son of Han Hongyi (é“é´»ç¿¼), changed his surname after a sonless uncle adopted him while he worked in Boston since twelve.
		Soong Ai-ling, the eldest of the Soong sisters, wife of the richest man in China who controlled the Bank of China
		Soong (Soong Tse-an, åå® ZÇ'Än), the chairman of the Bank of Canton, Hong Kong.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Charlie_Soong?mySession=76401ce6702d4a736b0ec2a4b9628bce (393 words)

	Asian Political News: Madame Chiang Kai-shek celebrates 103 birthday
		Soong lived through the waning years of China's last Qing Dynasty, the founding of the first Chinese republic, the Japanese invasion, the civil war and the Nationalists' (KMT) eventual flight to Taiwan after the communist victory in China.
		Soong is the youngest and only survivor of the three famous Soong sisters, daughters of a self-made tycoon from China's coastal Zhejiang Province.
		Her eldest sister, Ai-ling, was married to influential banker Kong Hsiang-hsi, who served as finance minister and central bank governor when the Nationalist government was still based in mainland China.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2001_March_12/ai_72344401 (379 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The Soong Sisters (1997)
		Two of the Soong sisters married important figures in 20th-century Chinese history.
		Soong Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Chinese Republic while her sister May-ling married Sun's successor, the famed Chian Kai-shek.
		Skybrian's review is pretty accurate, though I suspect THE SOONG SISTERS bears more than "a slight resemblance to history." It fills in a lot of blanks from my own recall, at least, but it does so in a manner that's all "movie" (that is, telescoping events into an easy-to-understand-and-therefore-simplified string of happenings).
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=12197 (400 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The fourth of six children, she was born in either Hainan or Shanghai
		May-ling moved to the United States to attend boarding school at the age of eight.
		Her prominence led Joseph Stilwell to quip that she be appointed minister of defence.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/s/so/soong_may_ling.html (895 words)

	The Soong Sisters by Kitaro
		The Soong Sisters is a controversial film based on the historical, political events of the early to mid 20th Century China.
		This telling highlights the lives of three sisters who grow up in the turbulence of China's struggles between imperialism, nationalism and communism.
		What makes the story so interesting is how the sisters find themselves intimately involved with some of China's most notable leaders of the 20th century: Sun Yat-Sen founder of the Nationalist Party and Chaing Kai-shek, commander in chief and the National Revolutionary Army.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/soongsisters.htm (733 words)

	SFBG A+E \| August 16, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Middle sister Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China.
		Still, while Soong Sisters may be set against the background of the formation of modern China, its outlook veers closer to Jane Austen.
		And it's within the gaping holes in the preset narrative – Charlie Soong's financing of Sun Yat-sen's revolution, Ching-ling's marriage to Sun and her father's disapproval, the courting of Mei-ling by Chiang, the conflict between Ching-ling and Mei-ling as politics overtake their sibling relationship – that Cheung works out her boldest artistic moves.
	www.sfbg.com /AandE/34/46/dynasty.html (556 words)

	Close-Up: The Soong Sisters
		The personal, intimate details of their lives are sacrificed in favour of extravagant gestures; the sisters seem to interact only at moments of intense emotion: in love and in war, during death-bed scenes, angry confrontations, tearful farewells.
		I can't say I blame the filmmakers for treating the sisters in this light, because their story is so astounding, so larger-than-life, that these women, for all that they are modern, historical figures, take on the potency of myth.
		The sisters may be shown as one-dimensional romanticized types, but they're still ultimately treated no differently from many Chinese people, famous and obscure, in this century--victims of an unkind destiny they could neither choose nor avoid.
	subjective.freeservers.com /soong.html (783 words)

	Soong Sisters, The (5/1997)
		So the Soong Sisters veers towards cliche; its characters are distilled into embodiments of various principles, causes and options for the Nation.
		After that, though, I didn't really feel the sisters were all that close after they returned from America so when their relationship cracked I didn't know what to feel.
		Overall, the rise and fall of the Soong sisters made an interesting subject for a melodrama, and that's pretty much what this movie is. Recommended.
	www.cco.caltech.edu /~hding/HKcinema/Soong_Sisters.html (557 words)

	phorum - Overseas Chinese Forum at Asiawind - The Soong Sisters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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 Ching Ling and commander Cai Tingkai of the 19th Route Army, after inspecting the Zhenru battlefield in Shanghai.
	www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=4&i=1373&t=1350&v=f (3740 words)

	Cannes 97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Hong Kong production The Soong Sisters opens today in its home market, with 18 minutes of cuts, following a wrangle with Beijing.
		Much of the lost footage is of the 1936 Xian incident, when Chiang was kidnapped, to be rescued in part by his wife Soong Mei-ling.
		“Soong is seen challenging Communist Party officials, and Zhou Enlai [later to become the second most powerful man in China] is in the room,” said Lee.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cannes97/cnewsb22.htm (238 words)

	Comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I only know that the Soong Sisters ‘vÆ·— were three women whose husbands were amongst China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.
		Soong Ai-ling (Nancy) Born in Shanghai, the eldest and the one who "loved money", was married to the richest man and finance minister of China, H. Kung who was the richest man in the early 20th Century Republic of China.
		Soong May-ling youngest and the one who "loved power", was married to the leader of the Nationalist Party, General of the Chinese armies, and later the president, Chiang Kai-Shek.
	douglaswong.blogdrive.com /comments?id=51 (789 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - The Soong Sisters
		One loved money, one loved power, and one loved her country." After some 1981 scenes showing the aging May-ling at her residence in Long Island hearing the news that Ching-ling is on her deathbed back in Beijing, the movie flashes back to the late Qing dynasty, showing the three little girls in their privileged upbringing.
		After being dispatched to the U.S. as kids by their patriarchal but caring father (mainland star Jiang Wen, making the most of a supporting role), the sisters return to Republican China in adult form and are soon networking with the country's elite.
		With each of the sisters so obviously repping the three guiding forces in modern Chinese history --- nationalism (Wu), communism (Cheung) and capitalism (Yeoh) --- and with both Cheung and Yeoh revoiced in the Mandarin-language version, there's almost no sense of sisterly bonds or empathy among the leads.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117342298?categoryid=31&cs=1 (805 words)

	Michelle Yeoh Web Theatre: The Soong Sisters
		The Soong family was one of the most influential families in Chinese modern history.
		The movie tells the story of the three sisters, starting from their childhood (around year 1900), through the years of unrest and revolution, the second world war, the civil war...
		A good combination of the life of the Soong sisters and the larger historical picture which is ever present -- and hard to ignore -- in the background.
	michelleyeoh.info /Movie/soongsisters.html (231 words)

	Kitaro Connection-An emporium of Kitaro music
		itaro's award winning motion picture soundtrack for the movie The Soong Sisters with a theme following the name of a prominent Chinese family whose members include Ching-ling (1890-), the widow of Sun Yat-sen, and Mei-ling (1898-), the wife of Chiang Kai-shek.
		Based on the three lives of sisters who grew up in the tumult of China's struggles with Communism and Nationalism.
		The Soong Sisters is also a story of family, love and religion.
	kitaromusic.com /soongsisters.htm (176 words)

	Wesleyan College: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Madame Chiang (Soong May-ling) and her older sisters Soong Ai-ling (Madame H.H. Kung) and Soong Ching-ling (Madame Sun Yat Sen) are among Wesleyan’s most famous alumnae and were the first Chinese women educated in the United States.
		According to historical records, she insisted on coming to the college with her older sister, Ching-Ling, where they joined Ai-ling, who was already a Wesleyan student.
		She and her sisters maintained their ties to Wesleyan throughout their lives, sending the college numerous gifts and corresponding with fellow alumnae, faculty and friends.
	www.wesleyancollege.edu /news/articles/2003/10242003_mdmchiang.html (372 words)

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