Madame Sun Yat-Sen: Soong Ching-Ling

by Jung Chang

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The biography of the Chinese woman who long after her husband's death continued to guide the revolution that brought her country into the communist orbit.

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Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She left China for Britain in 1978 and obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of York in 1982. She is the first person from the People¿s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She lives in London with her husband, Jon Halliday, with whom she show more wrote Mao: The Unknown Story. Her non-fiction book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, was a New York Times bestseller in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Madame Sun Yat-Sen: Soong Ching-Ling
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Madame Sun Yat-Sen (Soong Ching-Ling)
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Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History
DDC/MDS
951.05History & geographyHistory of AsiaEast Asia: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, KoreaHistory1949- (People's Republic, 20th century)
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DS778 .S82 .C43History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaAsiaHistory of AsiaChinaHistory
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