宋慶齡傳

內(nèi)容概要

This is a biography of Soong Ching Ling (Mme. Sun Yatsen). Widow of the historic revo-lutionary who led in the overthrow of the mil-lennial monarchy in 1911, she was much more.Surviving him through 56 years of perils and triumphs, associated closely with major events and personalities domestic and foreign, she died in 1981 as Honorary President of the People's Republic of China. Truly a great woman of our century. To learn about her is to learn about the times which produced her.    The aim of this first extensive biography of Soong Ching Ling in English, writes the author,"is to have the reader meet the subject. Wher-ever possible, the story is told in her own words,drawn from all available written material, in-cluding hundreds of personal letters, the testi-mony of participants and eyewitnesses and my own recollections over four decades."     Brought up in wealth, Soong Ching Ling joined the ranks of the plain and the poor. A patriotic Chinese, she was also bi-cultural, and  the English-language reader can experience di-rectly, not through translation, the ringing con- viction of her public writings and the warmth and wit of her personal correspondence.     Her combination of deep commitment and unusual personal qualities prompted Zhou Enlai to call her "gem of China" and Mao Zedong to  describe her as "a phoenix flown out of the Soong family nest." Other tributes came from  many quarters, from her fellow students in her U.S. college days to her later acquaintances and  associates in various causes -- Jawaharlal Neh-ru of lndia, novelist Romain Rolland of France, and many others -- including noted journalists like Edgar Snow and political-military figures  like the U.S. General "Vinegar" Joe StilwelL Her friends were legion.    Soong Ching Ling can be said to be an epitome of a modern Chinese, relevant not only to her time but to this generation and perhaps some to come. Since China is a quarter of mankind, this is important to everyone.

作者簡介

Isracl Epstein, born in 1915 in Poland, was
brought up in China and there began his jour-
nalistie work, publishing also in the Unlted
States and other countries. His first association
with Soong Ching Ling was in 1938-45 in the
wartime China Defense League In Hong Kong
and Chongqing (Chungking). In 1951 she invit-
ed him and his wife, the late Elsle Fairfax-
Cholmeley (1905-84), to return from the Unit-
ed States, where they then lived, to help set up
the magazine she founded in Beijing, "China
Reconstructs" (now "Chlna Today") of which, at
Soong Ching Ling's death in 1981, Epstein was
edltor-in-chief, havlng, in the meantime, be-
come a citizen of the People's Republic.
From the late 1970s, she had asked him
several times to write her biography after she
dled. Following retirement from the magazine,
he spent several years In researching and wrlt-
Ing this book which appeared on the centenary
of Soong Chlng Ling's birth.
Previous books by Epstein include The Peo-
ple's Ww in China, London, Victor Gollancz,
1939; The Unflnished Revolutlon in China, Bos-
ton, Little Brown, 1947; From Oplum War to
Llberation, Beijlng, New World Prcss, 1956 with
subsequent editions in 1964 and 1980 in Bei-
jing and Hong Kong (by Jolnt Publlshing Co);
and Tlbet Transformed, Beijing, New World
Prass, 1983
Concerning Soong Ching Ling, he has pub-
lished a number of articles and lectured at
symposia in the United States and Japan.

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AUTHOR'SPREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ANOTEONTRANSCRIPTION CHAPTER Ⅰ StudentinAmerica(1908-13) CHAPTER Ⅱ AncestryandBackground CHAPTER Ⅲ ReturnandMarriage(1913-15) CHAPTER Ⅳ SunYatsen CHAPTER Ⅴ ToPreservetheRepublic: Shanghai-Guangzhou(1916-22) CHAPTER Ⅵ GuangzhouTransformation(1923-25) CHAPTER Ⅶ FromWidowtoSfandardBearer(1925-27) CHAPTER Ⅷ Wuhanin1927,WatershedYear CHAPTER Ⅸ Moscow(1927-28) CHAPTER Ⅹ InBerlin CHAPTER Ⅺ ABrief,StormyReturnHome(1929) CHAPTER Ⅻ OnceMoreinEurope(1929-31) CHAPTER ⅩⅢ ToSaveRevolutionaries,Shanghai (1931-34) CHAPTER ⅩⅣ ToRallyandSavetheNation,Shanghai (1935-37) CHAPTER ⅩⅤ WarYearsinHongKong(1937-41) CHAPTER ⅩⅥ WarYearsinChongqing(1941-45) CHAPTER ⅩⅦ CrisisAfterVictory,Shanghai(1946-49) CHAPTER ⅩⅧ BuildingtheNewChina(1949-66) CHAPTER ⅩⅨ "CulturalRevolution"Storm(1966-76) CHAPTER ⅩⅩ TwilightResurgence(1976-81) NOTES INDEX

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