![]() Sun was the one man who could do it, so I wanted to help him." (Pakula, 64). Chingling then married Sun, despite her parents' opposition, and said, "I wanted to help save China, and Dr. Ailing had been working as Sun's secretary a position Chingling would take over. ![]() When Yuan Shikai became President of the new Republic of China, Soong and his family stayed loyal to Sun, who was living in exile in Japan and moved to Tokyo to help the Kuomintang re-strategize. Charlie met Sun Yat-sen in 1894 and became close friends with him, helping him publish revolutionary material (Pakula, 49, 52). Nevertheless, Ailing and Chingling attended Wesleyan College, and Mei-ling finished school at Wellesley College (Leong, 108-109).Įven before World War II, the Soong family was politically involved. ![]() The couple strongly valued education, especially for their daughters, which was unorthodox for many traditionally patriarchal families at the time. They married in 1887 and soon started a family: Soong Ailing, Soong Chingling, Soong T. The Soong family story begins with businessman Charlie Soong and "Katherine" Ni Kwei-Tseng, a descendant of a famous Ming Dynasty scholar and minister. ![]()
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