01698nam a22002297a 4500 20220516111730.0 220516b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0552140189 Aloy eng 23 951.04 SEAS Sterling Seagrave 37181 Soong dynasty London: Corgi Books, 1996 viii,531p. PB 20x13cm. History Descendants 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. 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. 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. Soong, who at various times served as Chiang's economic minister, foreign minister and premier. How all of the Soongs except Ching-ling amassed enormous wealth while millions of Chinese starved or were killed in the long fight against Japan and the equally bitter struggle with Mao are just some of the revelations in this explosive book. History of China 37182 Soong Family 37183 SEAGRAVE (Sterling) 37184 ddc GF 222941 222941 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 951.04 SEAS GF02399 2022-05-16 00:00:00 2022-05-16 GF