Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Mei-ling for 1937
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Soong May-ling
Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang, was the First Lady of the Republic of China as the wife of Chiang Kai-shek. The youngest of the Soong sisters, she played a prominent role in Chinese politics and foreign relations in the first half of the 20th century.
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politics · Wife of Chiang Kai-shek (1898–2003) · politician · public figure · activist · also Soong May-ling, Soong Mei-ling, Song Meiling, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Mayling Soong Chiang, Soong Meiling
Born 4 March 1898 · Died 23 October 2003 · Q17135
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Soong May-ling speaks at the Hollywood Bowl, April 4, 1943 (United News audio)
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2003· 2 entries
Died 2003-10-23.
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“I came to school in the United States, and I will always consider America my second home.”
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2000· 1 entry
And spent the rest of her life in the 10 Gracie Square apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan owned by her niece
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1995· 1 entry
When she attended a reception held on Capitol Hill in her honor in connection with celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II
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1988· 1 entry
To shore up support among her old allies
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1975· 2 entries
Emigrated from Taiwan to her family's 36-acre (14
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And would undergo two mastectomies in Taiwan
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1965).
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1949· 1 entry
Madame Chiang followed her husband to Taiwan, while her sister Soong Ching-ling stayed in mainland China, siding with the communists
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1945· 1 entry
Became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang
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1943· 3 entries
Became the first Chinese national and the second woman to address both houses of the US Congress
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Made the cover of Time magazine for a third time
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The United States Women's Army Corps recruited a unit of Chinese-American women to serve with the Army Air Forces as "Air WACs", referred to as the "Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Air WAC unit"
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1940· 1 entry
And came to Chongqing on a world tour in 1942
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1937· 1 entry
Led appeals to women to support the Second Sino-Japanese War, which led to the establishment of women's battalions, such as the Guangxi Women's Battalion
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1934· 1 entry
Soong Mei-ling was given a villa in Kuling town, Mount Lu
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1928· 1 entry
Was made a member of the Committee of Yuans by Chiang
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1927· 1 entry
And following the marriage, the two families became intimately connected, creating the "Soong dynasty" and the "Four Families"
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1917· 2 entries
With a major in English literature and minor in philosophy
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Studied at Wellesley College (1917).
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1913· 1 entry
Studied at Wesleyan College (1912–1913).
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1909· 1 entry
Wesleyan's newly appointed president, William Newman Ainsworth, gave her permission to stay at Wesleyan and assigned her tutors
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1908· 1 entry
Ching-ling was accepted by her sister Ai-ling's alma mater, Wesleyan College, at age 15 and both sisters moved to Macon, Georgia, to join Ai-ling
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-03-04.
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