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Apr 9, 2024 · Soong Mei-ling was educated in the United States from 1908 to 1917, when she graduated from Wellesley College, and was thoroughly Americanized. In 1927 she married Chiang Kai-shek, and she helped introduce him to Western culture and ideas and worked to publicize his cause in the West.
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Education Mei-ling as a student at Wesleyan College c. 1910. In Shanghai, Mei-ling attended the McTyeire School for Girls with her sister, Ching-ling. Their father, who had studied in the United States, arranged to have them continue their education in the US in 1907. Mei-ling and Ching-ling attended a private school in Summit, New Jersey.
Feb 20, 2023 · Learn more about the incredible Soong sisters — Soong Ching-ling, Soong Ai Ling, and Soong Mei-ling — and the impact they had on the history of China.
May-ling entered Motyeire School, an American private school, in Shanghai at the age of eight. In 1913, she started college at her sisters' alma mater, Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, but transferred to Wellesley College in order to be closer to her brother, Song Tae-wen, who was studying at Harvard University.
Chiang Mei-ling, born Soong Mei- ling (often spelled May-ling), did not follow the traditional path of a female born in China in the late nine- teenth century. Educated in the United States, she found it difficult to assimilate back into Chinese society as a young woman.
Mar 5, 2020 · By TIME Staff. March 5, 2020 6:34 AM EST. Soong Mei-ling is as much an architect of modern China as any communist revolutionary. The Wellesley-educated wife of Nationalist leader Chiang...
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Mar 26, 2016 · Mei-ling (youngest daughter and fourth child) means "Beautiful Life" and she was born in 1898. In 1904, through his Methodist and Vanderbilt contacts, Charlie was able to enroll Ai-ling at Wesleyan College for Women in Macon, Georgia leading the way for all of the Soong children to eventually study in America.
