Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister is Jung Chang’s fifth biographical treatment of twentieth-century Chinese history. Moving from grand parties in Shanghai to penthouses in New York, from exiles’ quarters in Japan and Berlin to secret meetings in Moscow we read about power struggles, godfather style assassinations, secret talks and bribes making this a book that is compulsive reading. The Soong sisters came from a world of privilege—they had every comfort they could want and were the first Chinese women to be educated at American universities.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Sedangkan si bungsu perempuan adalah May-Ling (atau Mei Ling) menikah dgn Generalissimo (Jendral Besar) Chiang Kai-Shek yg memimpin Partai Nasionalis Cina selama 23 tahun di Cina sehingga sebutannya adalah Madame Chiang. Jung Chang ma niesamowity dar opowiadania i z całym szczęściem dla czytelnika nie zachowała go dla siebie.She spoke in perfect American English on her stiff, bad-tempered husband’s behalf not only in the US, but also at key negotiations with western leaders, including the 1943 Cairo Conference. This was in part attributable to the malevolent and destabilising influence that Stalin's Soviet Union exerted. Sekembalinya mereka ke Cina, 2 diantaranya bekerja pd Dr Sun dan salah satunya jatuh cinta dan memutuskan kawin lari.

The only reservation I have about the book is related to the narrator's lack of knowledge of anything Chinese that renders person and place names almost impossible to identify without checking the text when listening to the audio version.He was said to be raising money in Hawaii and elsewhere but what funds he got for this seem to come from his Maui based brother. Ich jedyną nadzieją okazywały się kobiety, które potrafiły używać swojej siły wpływu do sterowania mężczyznami u władzy – i tutaj oto mamy możliwą przyczynę zbanowania tej książki w patriarchalnych Chinach. Chang has written a biography with the meticulousness of a historian and the subtlety of a novelist. Sun created his own bank for China but under his name, and listed all its assets in his papers under ‘family affairs’.

After the CCP defeated the Nationalists in 1949, Qingling served as Mao Zedong’s vice-chairman on the mainland, while Meiling followed Chiang Kai-shek into exile in Taiwan. While the book is fairly positive on this family you see the Soong's and Kung’s helping themselves to public funds. But eventually they were divided by politics because Ching-ling sided with the Communists and the other two were involved with the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang). The author, who grew up in the People's Republic of China, has no love for the Communists, but she has no love for the Kuomintang, which also has violent history, either. The relationship between them was highly charged emotionally, especially once they had embraced opposing political camps and Ching-ling dedicated herself to destroying her two sisters’ world.As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. Both Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek come across as scheming and amoral, the one incompetent at politics, the other disastrous as a military leader.