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Soong Ching-ling (宋庆龄), also known as Madam Sun Yat-sen and Rosamond Soong, was a prominent patriot and political figure in China during the 20th century. She was one of the famous three Soong Sisters, whose personal glamour, influential marriages and complicated sisterhood relationships mingled with love and conflict and made them three of the most legendary Chinese women in their times.

Born on Jan. 27, 1893, to a Christian family in Shanghai, Soong was well-educated in her childhood. Her father, Charlie Soong, a successful missionary and businessman, who believed in equality of education between girls and boys in feudalist China, sent his three daughters, Ailing, Ching-ling and May-ling to the United States when they were teenagers.

When Ching-ling graduated from Wesleyan College in Georgia, she succeeded her older sister, Ai-ling, to work as the secretary of Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary leader who overthrew the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and built up a