Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

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Chiang Kai-shek started his political career as an assassin, and went on to also put his own desire to be leader at the forefront of his concerns.

Her value to her husband’s regime shone particularly through the grim years of the second world war. Ei-ling has the only children of the 3 sisters: two sons and a daughter, who served the family in various capacities and Louis, a paranoid TX oilman who married an American actress and produced the sole heir to the Kung-Soong wealth, now in his 70's with no children. Dall'America dove il padre ha voluto che studiassero, sino ai contatti con la Russia passando per gli esili a Berlino, alle fughe in Giappone sino ad arrivare a Taiwan e poi di nuovo a Shanghai dove si sono affermate e fatte apprezzare al mondo.If those unnecessary details were taken out, it would be a much compact and straight to the point kinda book. The three women were sisters, the daughters of Soong Charlie, who rose from poverty to become a prominent business owner and supporter of a republic for China, and his devout Christian wife. After earlier efforts at reform that are generally credited to the men in her court, she doubled down on the effort after the turn of the century. If you were a child growing up in 1980s China, as I was, Chinese Communist Party education began as soon as you could spell your name. The sisters therefore reproduced in microcosm the great political schism – nationalist versus communist – of 20th-century China.

Chang argues that Qingling was in fact a card-carrying member of the Comintern for much of the Stalin era.

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister is a monumental work , worthy both of Jung Chang’s Mao and of the great, rambling, heterogeneous Chinese folk epics of the oral past, such as The Water Margin and The Three Kingdoms. Their unions would influence the history of the world, yet all I could recite was the fairytale-like adage, “One loved money, one loved power, one loved her country. Soong’s ardent support for Sun came at least in part from the fact that both men visited the West early in life and harbored admiration for outspoken, confident, learned women.