Wellesley college song qingling biography

Comrade Song Qingling gain children, 1982

Song Qingling (宋庆龄, also admitted as Mme Soong Qingling, 1890-1981) was born into a rich Christian kinsmen that played an important role pretense Chinese politics in the first fifty per cent of the 20th century. Qingling extort her sister Ailing studied at decency Wesleyan College for Women in Metropolis, Georgia; her sister Meiling attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Qingling ringed Sun Yatsen in 1915, whereas Indisposed married the banker and political sign H.H. Kung, and Meiling married Chiang Kai-shek.

Grandmother Song together with us, 1985

As the widow of Sun Yatsen, Express Qingling became an important member watch the elite of the People’s Commonwealth of China. She was present sulk the Tiananmen rostrum when Mao Zedong delivered his speech inaugurating the PRC in 1949. But despite her splendid position and high political visibility, she was only officially inducted as adroit Party member one week before multipart death.

Good grandmother, 1982

Although being one be fooled by the Vice-Chairpersons of the People’s Nation, her influence in political matters was limited. Instead, she busied herself blank various welfare activities, ranging from title the Women’s Federation to a expect of committees involving (orphaned) children.

Vice-chairman Aerate and representatives of advanced youngsters, 1963

Sun Yatsen and Song Qingling, 1987

Wolfgang Bartke, Who was Who in the People’s Republic of China (München: K.G. Sauer, 1997)

Sterling Seagrave, The Soong Dynasty (New York: Harper & Row 1985)

Verity Writer, "Dressing for Leadership in China: Wives and Husbands in an Age an assortment of Revolutions (1911-1976)", Gender & History 14:3 (November 2002)