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In the 2000 Presidential Election on Taiwan, the Kuomintang produced a letter from her in which she purportedly supported the KMT candidate Lien Chan over independent candidate James Soong (no relation).
As her husband rose to become Generalissimo and leader of the Kuomintang, Madame Chiang acted as his English translator, secretary and adviser. Chiang Kai-shek was succeeded politically by his eldest son Chiang Ching-kuo, from a previous marriage, with whom Madame Chiang had a difficult relationship.
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- ↑ 1.01.1While records at Wellesley College and the Encyclopaedia Britannica indicate she was born in 1897, the ROC government as well as the BBC and the New York Times cite her year of birth as 1898.
pp. 217–18. ISBN 978-0-674-03338-2. Chiang was baptized into the Methodist church, though he did not publicly practice Christianity and continued to follow Confucian teachings. On behalf of the American people, I extend condolences to Madame Chiang's family members and many admirers around the world.
— George W.
Bush[22]
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- The New York Times gives her place of birth as Shanghai, while the BBC and Encyclopædia Britannica give it as Wenchang, Hainan island (which was then part of Guangdong Province).
- While records at Wellesley College and the Encyclopædia Britannica indicate she was born in 1897, the Republic of China government as well as the BBC and the New York Times cite her year of birth as 1897.
On February 18, 1943, she became the first Chinese national and the second woman to address the U.S. Congress. In 1908, 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. She was also a member of Tau Zeta Epsilon, Wellesley's Arts and Music Society.
In 1928, she was made a member of the Committee of Yuans by Chiang.[10]They renewed their wedding vows on May 24, 1944 at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City.[11] Polly Smith sang the Lord's Prayer at the ceremony.
Madame Chiang initiated the New Life Movement and became actively engaged in Chinese politics. Retrieved June 27, 2008. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, a pivotal figure in one of the 20th century's great epics — the struggle for control of post-imperial China waged between the Nationalists and the Communists during the Japanese invasion and the violent aftermath of World War II — died on Thursday in Manhattan, the Foreign Ministry of Taiwan reported yesterday.
They married in Shanghai on December 1, 1927.[9] While biographers regard the marriage with varying appraisals of partnership, love, politics and competition, it lasted 48 years. Their father, Charles Jones Soong, a wealthy Chinese Methodist, had studied in the United States, and sent her to Wellesley College, where she graduated with honors in 1917.
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New World Encyclopedia writers and editors rewrote and completed the Wikipedia article in accordance with New World Encyclopediastandards. An open house viewing of the estate drew many Taiwanese expatriates. Wall Street Journal. She again returned to the United States. In 1948, Madame Chiang went to the United States to appeal to President Harry Truman for support for the Kuomintang, but the United State refused to alter its policy of non-involvement in the affairs of China.
Madame Chiang continued to play a prominent international role.