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

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Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Big Sister, Ei-ling, became Chiang’s unofficial main adviser – and made herself one of China’s richest women.

But to secure his control of the country, he promptly purged the communists from his new regime, killing thousands. In one harrowing episode early in their marriage, Sun fled the presidential palace and used his wife as bait to ensure his escape.Le signore di Shanghai" sono le tre sorelle Ei-ling, Ching-ling e May-ling, che hanno trasformato la Cina.

Learning about the history of China from the time the monarch was overthrown and who contribute to the success of the ruling was both fascinating and intriguing. Through the lives of the three sisters, I got to know the history of China in the twentieth century better, although it probably did not give a complete picture.Soong’s ardent support for Sun came at least in part from the fact that both men visited the West early in life and harbored admiration for outspoken, confident, learned women. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.

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. The pictures provided more information and make the book interesting so we can see these people as they are. Had these two men cared more of China than their own wealth and self-aggrandisement, the history of China would have been different. Big sister is Soong Ei-Ling (‘Big Sister’), Little Sister is May-Ling (‘Little Sister’), and Red Sister is Ching-Ling (‘Red Sister’).She shows how one aristocratic family made it from nothing to something- brilliant introduction to contemporary Chinese history and for those who have no knowledge of China. This book ended out on my list due to a challenge from a friend to read something way out of my comfort zone. 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. Sun created his own bank for China but under his name, and listed all its assets in his papers under ‘family affairs’. Out of her own pocket, she had converted the Lido Cabaret into a field hospital of 300 beds and set up a children’s hospital with a hundred beds.