(Madame Chiang Kai-shek)
Called by Life Magazine the "most powerful woman in the world,” by Ernest Hemingway the “empress” of China, and compared by Clare Boothe Luce to Florence Nightingale and Joan of Arc; Soong Mei-ling lived during 3 different centuries, was the Republic of China’s first First Lady, Sun Yat-sen’s sister-in-law, wife and political partner to Chiang Kai-shek. She worked hard fighting against the Japanese invasion of China, toured the USA trying to get support, and started extensive welfare projects and schools for orphans, and worked on many attempts to heal China’s political divisions.
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“a certain woman known all over the world... a rich, beautiful wilful woman, who had married a warlord... That woman had taken a raw strong ignorant man and as his wife she had shaped him into a ruler whose name the whole world now knew.”
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