Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

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Together, these three extraordinary women helped shape the destiny of the world’s most populous nation from the closing days of the Manchu dynasty to the dawn of China’s ascension into a superpower. She makes such complicated moments in history so easy to understand and after reading this I feel like I’m a FOUNTAIN of knowledge on the politics of twentieth-century China. Sun Yat-sen, who pioneered the idea that China should become a republic, became angry when he was not elected as the republic's first president. The daughters of Charlie Song, a Methodist preacher turned Shanghai entrepreneur, they became the first Chinese girls to attend university in the US, and left speaking and writing better English than Chinese.

Mnogość publikacji każdorazowo podparta kilkudziesięciostronicową bibliografią wystarczy, aby Jung Chang uznać za specjalistkę od najnowszej historii Chin. Around the turn of the 20th century, the Soong daughters became some of the first Chinese women to be educated in America, which led to jobs as English translators for Sun. There was a Chinese family of Soong, the father of the sisters from the title was the first Chinese to be converted in the American South by the Methodists, when he was in his teens. Córki poczciwego kaznodziei o imieniu Charlie, który bardziej przesiąknął kulturą Stanów Zjednoczonych niż Chin. Despite their divergent destinies, the Soong sisters were clearly emboldened by their life of plenty.Ei-Ling (atau Ai Ling) adalah kakak tertua yg dipanggil Big Sister (Da-Jie) adalah yg paling pintar mencari uang, maka julukannya adalah "ai qian" (cinta uang).

Tre sorelle molto diverse tra di loro, ma che grazie alla loro perseveranza, coraggio hanno reso ancora più grande il popolo cinese. Among them, Marshall Wu Pei-Fu, a warlord (not all warlords were bad), and Mu-Zhen, Sun’s first and long-suffering wife.By quietly funding Sun Yat-sen’s revolutionary schemes to democratize China, Charlie Soong inadvertently introduced his daughters to the world of politics. Yg bagus dari buku ini adalah author sebisa mungkin obyektif terhadap tokoh-tokoh yg ditulisnya ini. They remained close emotionally, even when they embraced opposing political camps and Ching-ling dedicated herself to destroying her two sisters' worlds.

In 1942, she took herself off on a 10-month publicity tour of the US, preaching the gospel of friendship between China and the US, pleading for American “moral support” (and dollars).Mostly, I get the impression that this book is mainly notes - some interesting tangents are not discussed at all, and other lines of discussion are ignored, some events are just strung together. There is a longer list of supporting characters like Charlie Soong and Chou En Lai, but the focus of this book is on the three sisters; thus, the men who complete the picture of the rebirth of a nation. Mao’s impulsive and brutal policies that led to the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese people are well documented and widely acknowledged. Ching-ling, or Red Sister as Chang refers to her, would become the Madame Sun Yat-sen, and later served as vice-chairman to Mao Zedong.

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang, was a sweeping and gripping account of the Soong family of Shanghai, not only of these three sisters that played a large part in the shaping of the history of China in the twentieth century, but it also tells about their three brothers, each making history in their own right, as part of the inner circle of the Chiang Kai-shek regime. Born in China, she lives in London with her husband, Jon Halliday, her coauthor on two of those books. Little Sister, May-ling, was Madame Chiang Kai-shek, first lady of the pre-Communist Nationalist China and a major political figure in her own right.There was a strong bond between the sisters, who were alone together getting an education at Wellesley College.