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Wellesley College's most famed alumna went back last weekend. Mei-ling Soong. honor student, class of '17, went to see how the campus had changed since her last May Day hoop rolling and June step singing. For Madame Chiang Kaishek, the woman Mei-ling Soong had become, the Wellesley visit was a brief recess in her U.S. tour...
...Chinese Idiom. By the time she went back to Shanghai in 1917, Mei-ling knew the U.S. as few Americans do. But she hardly knew her own country. She found a Chinese teacher and learned to speak, read & write Chinese. Gradually she took on Chinese dress. As a beautiful member of the distinguished Soong family, she cavorted to feasts, rode in jodhpurs. But as a girl with a rigid conscience, she joined the Y.W.C.A. and the Child Labor Commission. She had a horror of untidiness: an English friend describes how she impatiently snatched a dustcloth from a shiftless amah...
...died, and the handsome young Chiang Kai-shek assumed at least the military tunic of the great revolutionist. Mei-ling Soong met him. At that time she did not actively concern herself with his politics; she heard how he broke with Moscow and she heard whispers of the way his secret societies killed off the Reds. She found herself being courted and liking it, and before long the soldier had followed Mei-ling's formidable mother to Japan to make her agree to a distasteful match (because he had been divorced and was not a Christian...
...Kung, longtime Minister of Finance. In China Mme. Kung was known for her wealth. She was grave, efficient, strongwilled. Ching-ling ("Happy Life") was the idealist, the incarnation of the spirit of her late husband, Sun Yatsen. She was in ways the most beautiful, but she was incredibly shy. Mei-Ling ("Beautiful Life") was certainly the personality of the three. At the end of their Hong Kong reunion, all three went to Chungking and much was made of the United Soong Front...
...Mei Kuo (America): may-gwaw...