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- Soong Ai-ling (traditional Chinese: 宋藹齡; simplified Chinese: 宋蔼龄; pinyin: Sòng Àilíng), legally Soong E-ling or Eling Soong (July 15, 1889 – October 20, 1973), was a Chinese businesswoman, the eldest of the Soong sisters and the wife of H. H. Kung (Kung Hsiang-Hsi), who was the richest man in the early 20th century Republic of China.
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Soong Ai-ling (traditional Chinese: 宋藹齡; simplified Chinese: 宋蔼龄; pinyin: Sòng Àilíng), legally Soong E-ling or Eling Soong (July 15, 1889 – October 20, 1973), was a Chinese businesswoman, the eldest of the Soong sisters and the wife of H. H. Kung (Kung Hsiang-Hsi), who was the richest man in the early 20th century Republic of ...
The Soong sisters (Chinese: 宋氏姐妹; pinyin: Sòngshì Jiěmèi), Soong Ai-ling, Soong Ching-ling, and Soong Mei-ling, were three sisters from Wenchang city, Hainan island. Raised as Christians and educated in America, the sisters all married powerful men, respectively, H. H. Kung , Sun Yat Sen , and Chiang Kai-shek .
Feb 20, 2023 · Soong Ai-ling, who was a described as clever with business and finance worked for Sun Yat-sen until 1914 when she married H.H. Kung. At the time, H.H. Kung was the wealthiest man in China and ...
After her return to China, his eldest child, Ai-ling (1890–1973), acted as a secretary to Sun until her marriage to banker and businessman H.H. K’ung (Kong Xiangxi) in 1914. Qingling, Soong’s second child, replaced Ai-ling as secretary and in 1914 married Sun Yat-sen, who was 26 years her senior.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 3, 2000 · Ching-ling (which means “Glorious Life”) was born in the early 1890s (different references give different dates) and raised in the wealthy European section of Shanghai, along with three...
- SUSAN SPANO
Mar 26, 2016 · 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.
Oct 29, 2019 · On Nov. 22 1943, The President Of The U.S.A, Franklin D. Roosevelt meets General Chang Kai-Shek and his wife Soong May-Ling in Cairo to arrange the conditions to be proposed to Japan after the...