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Chiang, May-ling Soong

(Shanghai 1897-2003 New York, N.Y.) : Gattin von Chiang Kai-shek

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Soong, Meiling
Soong, May-ling
Song, Meiling

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Chronology Entries (14)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1908-1912 May-ling Soong Chiang studiert in Macon, Georgia.
  • Document: Madame Chiang Kaishek and her China. Samuel C. Chu, editor. (Norwalk, Ct. : EastBridge, 2005). (ChuS1, Publication)
2 1913-1917 May-ling Soong Chiang studiert am Wellesley College, Mass.
  • Document: Madame Chiang Kaishek and her China. Samuel C. Chu, editor. (Norwalk, Ct. : EastBridge, 2005). (ChuS1, Publication)
3 1917 May-ling Soong Chiang graduiert am Wellesley College, Mass. und reist nach China zurück.
  • Document: Madame Chiang Kaishek and her China. Samuel C. Chu, editor. (Norwalk, Ct. : EastBridge, 2005). (ChuS1, Publication)
4 1927 Heirat von Chiang Kai-shek und May-ling Soong Chiang.
  • Document: Madame Chiang Kaishek and her China. Samuel C. Chu, editor. (Norwalk, Ct. : EastBridge, 2005). (ChuS1, Publication)
5 1928 May-ling Soong Chiang beginnt Schulen und Waisenhäuser in China zu gründen.
  • Document: Madame Chiang Kaishek and her China. Samuel C. Chu, editor. (Norwalk, Ct. : EastBridge, 2005). (ChuS1, Publication)
6 1938-1955 Anna Wang ist Sekretärin von May-ling Soong Chiang.
  • Document: Stanley, Margaret. Foreigners in areas of China under communist jurisdiction before 1949 : biographical notes and a comprehensive bibliography of the Yenan hui. With an introd. by Helen Foster Snow ; ed. by Daniel H. Bays. (Lawrence : University of Kansas, Center for East Asian Studies, 1987). (Reference series / Center for East Asian Studies ; no 3). (Bay4, Publication)
  • Person: Wang, Anna
7 1938.03.14 W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood met Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang May-ling Soong in Wuchang.
  • Document: Auden, W.H. ; Isherwood, Christopher. Journey to a war. (New York, N.Y. : Random House ; London : Faber & Faber, 1939). = Auden, W.H. Journey to a war. (New York, N.Y. : Octagon Books, 1972).= Rev. ed. (London : Faber and Faber, 1973). [Enthält : Sonnets from China].[Bericht über die Jahre 1937-1945]. S. 54. (Aud5, Publication)
  • Person: Auden, W.H.
  • Person: Isherwood, Christopher
8 1941.02.22-03.25 Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn in Hong Kong.
They lived in the Hong Kong Hotel and moved later to the Repulse Bay Hotel.
He met Morris Cohen, Addison E. Southard, Lauchlin Currie, William Langhorne Bond, Emily Hahn, Ramon Lavalle, Carl Blum [Manager U.S. Rupper Co.], Rewi Alley, Charles Boxer, Soong May-ling, Soong Ai-ling, Soong Ching-ling [Song Qingling].
  • Document: Moreira, Peter. Hemingway on the China front : his WWII spy mission with Martha Gellhorn. (Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2006).
    [Permission for quotations from Moreire, Peter. Hemingway in China by Samuel R. Dorrance, Ed. Potomac Books]. S. 56, 63. (Hem6, Publication)
  • Person: Alley, Rewi
  • Person: Bond, William Langhorne
  • Person: Boxer, Charles
  • Person: Cohen, Jerome A.
  • Person: Gallhorn, Martha
  • Person: Hahn, Emily
  • Person: Hemingway, Ernest
  • Person: Lavalle, Ramon
  • Person: Song, Qingling
9 1941.04.06-04.15 Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn fly to Chongqing. They live in Song Ziwen's house Whatchumcallit .
Hemingway met Theodore H. White, had a meeting with Chinese generals and a session with He Yingqing and Zhou Enlai. He met William Lederer.
Hemingway later admit to Harry Dexter White and Henry Morgenthau that life in Chongqing was extremely difficult and unpleasant.
April 9, Hemingway and Gellhorn meet Ambassador Nelson Trusler Johnson in Chongqing.
April 10, Hemingway flies to Chengdu (Sichuan), Martha Gellhorn remained in Chongqing.
April 11, Hemingway sees the construction of the airfield of Chengdu (Sichuan). He visited a Chinese military academy, watched workers who build an airfield and met professors at Chengdu University.
April 12, Hemingway returns to Chongqing.
April 14, Hemingway and Gellhorn have lunch with Chiang Kaishek and Soong May-ling and a banquet at Jialin Hotel. They discussed military, political and economic affairs and the relations with the Communists.
April 15, Hemingway and Gellhorn have their second interview with Soong May-ling.
  • Document: Gilenson, B. Hemingway in China. In : Far Eastern affairs ; no 6 (1988). (Hem9, Publication)
  • Document: Moreira, Peter. Hemingway on the China front : his WWII spy mission with Martha Gellhorn. (Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2006).
    [Permission for quotations from Moreire, Peter. Hemingway in China by Samuel R. Dorrance, Ed. Potomac Books]. S. 109, 111, 115, 121, 210. (Hem6, Publication)
  • Person: Chiang, Kai-shek
  • Person: Gallhorn, Martha
  • Person: Hemingway, Ernest
  • Person: Johnson, Nelson T.
  • Person: Lederer, William
  • Person: Song, Ziwen
  • Person: White, Theodore H.
  • Person: Zhou, Enlai
10 1942 May-ling Soong Chiang ist Vorsitzende eines Treffens zwischen amerikanischen und chinesischen Offizieren in Chongqing (Sichuan) um über die Luftwaffe zu diskutieren. Anwesend sind u.a. Joseph Stilwell und Claire Lee Chennault.
  • Document: Madame Chiang Kaishek and her China. Samuel C. Chu, editor. (Norwalk, Ct. : EastBridge, 2005). (ChuS1, Publication)
  • Person: Chennault, Claire Lee
  • Person: Stilwell, Joseph
11 1943 May-ling Soong Chiang reist durch Amerika, nach New York, N.Y., durch New England bis Chicago nach San Francisco und Los Angeles. Sie besucht Ottawa und Toronto. Sie hält Vorträge über die Beziehungen zwischen Amerika und China.
  • Document: Madame Chiang Kaishek and her China. Samuel C. Chu, editor. (Norwalk, Ct. : EastBridge, 2005). (ChuS1, Publication)
12 1950 Letter from Ernest Hemingway to General Charles T. Lanham ; 11 Sept. 1950.
But I do know fighting people of all kinds, painters, diplomats, thieves, gangsters, politcians, jockeys, trainers, bull fighters, many beautiful women, great ladies, the beau monde, the fast International sporting house set, professional killers, every sort of gambler, Madame Chang Kai Chek and both her sisters, the good one and the bad one, rapid anarchists, socialists, democrats, communists and monarchists and so I guess if you are guilty by association I plead guilty on the above counts.
  • Document: Hemingway, Ernest. Selected letters 1917-1961. Ed. by Carlos Baker. (London : Granada, 1981). S. 715. (Hem4, Publication)
  • Person: Hemingway, Ernest
13 1965 May-ling Soong Chiang trifft den amerikanischen Staatssekretär und den Verteidigungssekretär, den chinesischen Botschafter und zwei Senatoren in Washington D.C. um über die Beziehungen zwischen Amerika und Taiwan zu diskutieren.
  • Document: Madame Chiang Kaishek and her China. Samuel C. Chu, editor. (Norwalk, Ct. : EastBridge, 2005). (ChuS1, Publication)
14 1976-2003 May-ling Soong Chiang lebt in Amerika.
  • Document: Madame Chiang Kaishek and her China. Samuel C. Chu, editor. (Norwalk, Ct. : EastBridge, 2005). (ChuS1, Publication)

Bibliography (3)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1943 Chiang, May-ling Soong. Addresses delivered beford the Senate of the United States and the House of Representatives on Thursday, Febr. 18, 1943 ; together with other addresses delivered during her visit to the United States. (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943). Publication / Chi2
2 1957 Chiang, May-ling Soong. Selected speeches. (Taipei : Government Information Office, 1957). Publication / Chi1
3 1959 Chiang, May-ling Soong. Selected speeches, 1859-1959. Madame Chiang Kaishek. (Taipei : Office of the President, 1959). Publication / Chi3

Secondary Literature (2)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1943 Clark, Elmer T[almage]. The Chiangs of China. (New York, N.Y. : Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1943). [Betr. Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang May-ling Soong, Sung, Chiao-chün]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002965749. 		Publication / ClaE1
2 2005 Madame Chiang Kaishek and her China. Samuel C. Chu, editor. (Norwalk, Ct. : EastBridge, 2005). Publication / ChuS1
  • Cited by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich (AOI, Organisation)
  • Person: Chu, Samuel C.