Kung Ching-ling, who married Sun Yat-sen, leader of China's republican revolution May-ling, who married Chiang Kai-shek, the autocratic ruler of Nationalist China whose ties to the Shanghai underworld the author has documented and son T.V. Sterling Seagrave describes for the first time the intricate and fascinating rise to power of Charlie Soong and his children: daughters Ai-ling, who married one of China's richest men, H.H. This is a 1985 first edition.ĭescendants of a Chinese runaway who grew up in America under the protection of the Methodist church and who returned to his homeland to make a fortune selling Western bibles, the Soong family became the principal rulers of China during the first half of the 20th century and won the support of the American government and press for many decades. The cover boards are black with a gold embossed dragon on the front cover and title on the spine in gold. 1985 Hardcover Book, The Soong Dynasty, First Edition, Biography, Political, Nonfiction, Literature, Chinese HistoryĪ hardcover book entitled The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave.
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