THE SOONG SISTERS (sometimes spelled SONG)

THE EXTRAORDINARY AND FABULOUS DESTINY OF THE SONG SISTERS.

By marrying men of political distinction and adhering to their own political pursuits, the Song sisters— who included AILING (1890-1973), QINGLING (1892-1981) and MEILING (BORN 1897- 2003) Song— participated in Chinese political activities and were destined to play key roles in Chinese modern history. In childhood, Ailing was known as a tomboy, smart and ebullient; Qingling was thought a pretty girl, quiet and pensive; and Meiling was considered a plump child, charming and headstrong.

The three Song sisters - American educated - Wesley College.

FATHER & MOTHER

Charlie Song and Guizhen Ni had three daughters and three sons, all of whom received American educations at their father's encouragement. Though dissimilar political beliefs led the Song sisters down different paths, each exerted influence both on Chinese and international politics; indeed, MEILING'S INFLUENCE IN AMERICA WAS PARTICULARLY GREAT.

Charlie & Mamie SONG - the parents of the three sisters.

Sufficient to say that the men the three sisters married were instrumental in the modern history of China, and its international politics. According to their deeply entrenched & different political belief, each was truly in every sense of the words, the “grey eminence”, the operator not behind the scene, but at the forefront. They exerted an unbelievable influence as power brokers. There are many books & articles written about the SONG sisters' fabulous destiny. Hereunder is only one of them.

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 Eldest Sister (died aged 83)

 SOONG AI-LING, OR ELING SOONG was the eldest of the Soong sisters and the wife of H. H. Kung, Finance Minister of the Chinese Republic, later Prime Minister. He met in an official capacity with most of the world's leaders in the 30's (Hitler, Mussolini, Churchill, others. He was also a banker and was the richest man in the early 20th century Republic of China. AI-LING's descendants live in the US and are multi-millionaires. Here is Picture of Ailing Song with husband H.H. Kung.

 Middle Sister (died aged 89)

SOONG CHING-LING OR SONG QINGLING was the second wife of Sun Yat-sen, leader of the 1911 revolution that established the Republic of China, and was often referred to as Madame Sun Yat-sen. See below picture of her flanked by Mao Zhe Dung and Chou En Lai. She became joint President of the People's Republic of China with Dong Biwu from 1968 to 1972 and Honorary President in 1981, just before her death.

Young QINGLING - excellent student - intellectual and committed.

 
Youngest Sister (died age 106) 

SOONG MAY-LING OR SOONG MEI-LING, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang, was a First Lady of the Republic of China, the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek who spoke no English.

IN 1950, she tried to regain her influence by making a trip to the US, but Washington was cooling on the Chiang regime, finally recognizing its inefficiency and corruption, and Roosevelt's successor, Harry Truman, refused to receive her at the White House.

 MEI-LING AGAIN          

Here is a Picture of Mailing Song sitting with husband Chiang Kai-Chek, President Roosevelt and Churchill at Cairo Conference 1943. She continuously interrupted the interpreter to give the correct translation.

Mei-ling Soong, aka Madame Chiang Kai-shek aka the Last empress once famous round the world as the beautiful and extremely powerful Dragon Lady wife of China's autocratic ruler, lived the last years of her life in seclusion in a large apartment overlooking Gracie Park on the Upper East Side before dying on October 23 at the age of 106. The seclusion was not simply a matter of age and health. The Kuomintang Nationalist party, which had ruled the island of Taiwan after she and her husband fled there from mainland China in 1949, is trying to reinvent itself as a modern democratic party, and had no wish for this figure from its authoritarian past to emerge from the shadows.

MEI-LING with Eleanor Roosevelt

From then on, it was a downhill path that stretched over six decades as Chiang was forced out of mainland China and Mei-ling lost out in power struggles in Taiwan after his death in 1975. But, for a time in the early 1940s, she had been the most powerful woman on earth, and could dream of ruling the world with an American consort.


MORE PHOTOS                             
                                                             
QINGLING - Madame Sun Yat Sen on the cover of Time Magazine

QINGLING between Mao Zhe Dung & Chou En lai

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Later the three sisters united  in the garden of a villa.

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HISTORY’S JUDGEMENT

From humble beginnings, the Soong family rose to become the single most influential family in Shanghai, with ramifications across the globe in the area of politics and economics. Their true history has only recently been recorded, as the layers of scandal and intrigue slowly peel away. With a couple of notable exceptions, they were notorious in their corruption and their links to underworld crime – a true Shanghai legend.

The EXCEPTION WAS QUINGLING, the middle sister, the wife of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the father of the Chinese Republic and First President.

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“THEY’RE ALL THIEVES, EVERY DAMN’ ONE OF THEM” - President Truman

“ONE LOVED MONEY, ONE LOVED POWER AND ONE LOVED CHINA” - Modern Chinese saying, referring to the Soong sisters.