![]() ![]() A web of intrigue and control, all the more fantastic because it all happened. ![]() Soong marries into a family San Francisco Bankers. Soong marries into a New York banking family and, financier T.L. ![]() Kung revolutionary Ai-ling marries Amercian educated, founding father Sun Yat-sen Wellesly educated First Lady May-ling is wife to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek Prime Minister T.V. Specular Ai-ling weds finance minister H.H. Behind the scenes is Big-eared Tu of the Green Gang. It all began with Charlie Soong, a runaway raised in America under the protection of the Methodist church, and became a Bible publisher and godson of American industrialist Julian Carr. Biographical history of the Soong family, whose wealth and power dominated China, and American foreign policy towards Asia for the first half of the 20th century. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright, Black linen boards/Fine w/trace discoloration to lower edges. ![]()
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