While the prose is a tad too purple in places for my taste, the book provides a riveting account of the extraordinary lives of the three Soong sisters, Soong Ai-ling, Soong Ching-ling, and Soong Mei-ling, who had such an enormous impact on the history of China during the first half of the Twentieth Century.Īll three sisters were extremely well-educated and gained enormous influence and power thanks to their family wealth, their independent spirits, and their marriages to three of the most prominent men in China: H.
I forgot to include The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave to my list of memorable books about China.
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