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The Remarkable Mayling Soong.(Book review)
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, by Laura Tyson Li; Grove Atlantic, 2007, $29.
WAS THERE EVER a trio of sisters like the Soong sisters, Eling, Chingling and Mayling? They married the three most powerful Chinese of their day, the financier H.H. Kung, Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. The Chinese saw famously said that they should be named Aiqian (loves money, Eling), Aiquan (loves power, Mayling), and Aiguo (loves her country, Chingling). Now for the first time in English, Laura Tyson Li has written a definitive biography of Mayling Soong, Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
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Source: HighBeam Research, The Remarkable Mayling Soong.(Book review)