Soong ching ling biography of abraham lincoln

Powerful siblings in 20th century China

The Soong sisters^{[note 1]}, Soong Ai-ling, Soong Ching-ling, and Soong Mei-ling, were three prominent women in modern Chinese history.

Of Hakka descent, with ancestral roots in Wenchang, Hainan, they were raised as Christians in Shanghai and educated in the United States. All three sisters married powerful men, respectively, from eldest to youngest, H. H. Kung, Sun Yat Sen, and Chiang Kai-shek.

Stories about Lincoln's life have appeared in textbooks since the late Qing dynasty (–) as a mainstay of Chinese education.

For instance, he likened Lu Xun to Mark Twain and Mao Zedong to Abraham Lincoln, and even dubbed Sun Yat-sen's widow Soong Ching-ling China's ".

Soong Ching Ling, who went to the U.S. at the age of 14 in , graduated from Wesleyan with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

I'd guess mother of China because she's already wife of the father and if she united China she would have prestige on his level.

Much of the book deals with May-ling and her husband, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek: her glamour-filled life, his rise to power, and their.

Along with their husbands, they became among China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.

Their father was American-educated Methodist minister Charlie Soong, who made a fortune in banking and printing.

Their mother was Ni Kwei-tseng, also a Methodist who came from an Episcopalian family.^[1][2] All three sisters attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, United States.^[3] Mei-ling, however, left Wesleyan and eventually graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusett