Soong May-ling

Song Meiling (Chinese宋美龄/宋美龄, Pinyin Song Meiling ) ( born March 5, 1897 in Shanghai, † 23 October 2003 in New York City ) was the second wife of the Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek and practiced as " Madame Chiang Kai- shek " great political influence.

Life

Song Meiling was the youngest of the three Song sisters whose husbands of the most important politicians of China in the 20th century belonged She was the sister of the first Chinese state leader Sun Yat-sen. When Madame Chiang Kai- shek it is described as one that " the gamut of power dominated ." She came from the Chinese upper class and was the fourth of six children of Methodist missionary and media czar Charles Jones Soong (Chinese宋嘉树, Pinyin Song Jiashu ) from Shanghai. She received her training in the U.S., where she had grown up. In 1927 she married the General Chiang Kai- shek, the successor of Sun Yat-sen. Your excellent knowledge of English, their charm and their social connections were exceedingly useful for Chiang Kai- shek, who during the Second World War - isolated in western China against the Imperial Japanese Army and the People's Army of Mao Zedong Operating as - to a very considerable extent on the military support of the Allies, especially the United States was instructed.

During the incident of Xi'an in December 1936, a coup attempt by the relatively autonomous Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang, Song Meiling participated with success in the negotiations for the release of her husband. Then they should have given her husband a new self-confidence, since it believed that he had lost his face. Song Meiling toured the U.S. repeatedly in diplomatic- political mission. From Time Magazine was set three times on the cover. In 1937, she was the second woman ever to Wallis Simpson, along with Chiang Kai- shek Person of the Year Time magazine. In Washington, Madame Chiang Kai- shek was - invited to speak before the Senate and the House of Representatives, which was until then no woman before her has succeeded - as the face and voice of Nationalist China.

They conferred with her husband, who had not command of English, at the Cairo Conference in 1943, where she skillfully and successfully to the Allies, particularly Roosevelt and Churchill over, represented the Chinese national interests.

After her husband's death in 1975 Song Meiling lived in New York City. She was 106 years old and died on 23 October 2003 in New York.