Having lived in the US from age nine to nineteen, she spoke English but was illiterate in Chinese, which she had to learn later in life.

Ei-Ling (atau Ai Ling) adalah kakak tertua yg dipanggil Big Sister (Da-Jie) adalah yg paling pintar mencari uang, maka julukannya adalah "ai qian" (cinta uang). As with her previous books, most famously Wild Swans , it is Chang’s sympathetic, storyteller’s eye ― her attention to deeply human detail during the most extraordinary circumstances ― that makes her work remarkable. However, you can’t understand twentieth-century Chinese history without knowing about the role of this remarkable family. Córki poczciwego kaznodziei o imieniu Charlie, który bardziej przesiąknął kulturą Stanów Zjednoczonych niż Chin. That book, which “portrayed the Soong family in a highly unfavourable light,” shaped my views of some of the major figures in twentieth-century Chinese history, including Dowager Empress Cixi, Dr.Dari yg saya baca ini hidup mereka sangat tidak mudah dan enak dibayangkan oleh saya yg boleh dibilang lahir pd menjelang akhir abad 20. During the last three decades of her life she held an honored role in Red China as Vice-Chairman under Mao Ze-dong and Deng Tsiao-peng. Another interesting detail, that ‘classic’ historic narrative about China in 1920s-30s stresses multiple local warlords, which split China. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.

They had the confidence to pursue their passions and align (and parrot) their political beliefs to that of their husbands. Jung Chang brings the early twentieth century to life as she explores the world of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-Shek. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.In 1942, she took herself off on a 10-month publicity tour of the US, preaching the gospel of friendship between China and the US, pleading for American “moral support” (and dollars). There is a saying dating from the Maoist era that one sister loved money, one loved power, and one loved her country, although Chang at least attempts to add some nuance and perspective. Soong Ei-ling (Big Sister), the eldest of the children, was “the first Chinese woman to be educated in the United States.

Yg bagus dari buku ini adalah author sebisa mungkin obyektif terhadap tokoh-tokoh yg ditulisnya ini.All three sisters enjoyed tremendous privilege and glory, but also endured constant attacks and mortal danger. Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister is a monumental work, worthy both of Jung Chang’s Mao and of the great, rambling, heterogeneous Chinese folk epics of the oral past, such as The Water Margin and The Three Kingdoms.

In fact, it was Ei-ling who was her brother-in-law Chiang Kai-shek’s most influential advisor, even though much of her advice had to be funneled through her husband or a younger brother who also served in Chiang’s cabinet. A little oddly for a group biography of three remarkable women, however, the book sometimes veers off into male-dominated accounts of their context.Highlights of her life under Mao and her household, her alleged affair and her adopted daughters are page turners. Krn semua tokohnya juga sudah meninggal, author mengumpulkan data dari buku-buku, epistolary (korespondensi) yg dilakukan mereka kpd teman-teman terdekat mereka, sehingga kita diberi cukup banyak ttg pandangan mereka ttg Cina dan ideologi mereka yg bertentangan. Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister , written in a compulsive style that sweeps the story along, is much the fullest account of their remarkable lives available in English… The sisters make a great story told with considerable sympathy for them .