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Madame Sun Yat-Sen: Soong Ching-Ling (Lives of Modern Women)

1 review
Jung Chang, John Halliday

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986

The jewel of the nation
Jung Chang tells the extraordinary itinerary of Ching-ling Soong, one of the three daughters of a former US Methodist minister becoming a billionaire comprador in China, Charlie Soong. She married her political hero, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Chinese republic. Sun Yat-sen was driven into he hands of the Bolsheviks, when all the aid he asked for his country was turned down by all Western ...

Sun Yat-sen

2 reviews
Marie-Claire Bergere

Stanford University Press, 2000

The Demythification of Sun Yat-sen
"The study of Sun has been distorted by both the creation of the myth and by attempts at demythification" argues author Marie-Claire Bergére in her ground-breaking book, SUN YAT-SEN. This recent biography by the French historian, translated in 1998 by Janet Lloyd, attempts to present a "measured analysis leading to an overall evaluation of the life and work of Sun Yat-sen." What emerges from this ...

Sun Yat-Sen: His Political And Social Ideals

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

Love and Revolution: A Novel About Song Qingling and Sun Yat-sen (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)

1 review
Ping Lu

Columbia University Press, 2008

history happens spontaneously
Very cool book. In just 62 chapters Ping Lu presents a history of the first president of China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen. More exactly, in the odd chapters we learn about the last month of the Founding Father of the Republic and how he reflects upon his own life as a failure. The even chapters contain the memoirs of his widow, Song Qingling, the middle of the three Song Sisters, and for a smaller part the ...

Sun Yat Sen And The Awakening Of China
James Cantlie, C. Sheridan Jones

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

The author was privileged to have been acquainted with Dr. Sun Yat Sen for 25 years prior to this book's original publication in 1912, so the book not only contains the history of the 1911 Revolution and Sun's involvement in it, but also personal reminiscences of the man known to some as "The Father of Modern China." Several photographic illustrations of Sun are inside. Chapters include Sun Yat Sen: The Man and His Work, The Rise of a Great ...