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...mines from nowhere, planes from nowhere in a land where every gesture is a tradition; for advancing national progress and a New Life in spite of centuries of worship and changelessness, all credit belongs to the Couple of the Year, China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mei-ling Chiang...
...years, the great majority of these stories have social upheaval for their background. Most of the authors are Leftwing; many have been shot or imprisoned. Their names, well-known in China, will be mostly just queer names to U. S. readers: Lu Hsün, Jou Shih, Ting Ling, T'ien Chün, Shih Ming...
Madame Chiang, as Mei-ling Soong, graduated from Wellesley College at Wellesley, Mass., in 1917, as you state in your issue of Jan. 25. She came to Macon, Ga., however, as a little girl of 10 with her sisters. (Madame H. H. Kung, Soong Eling, graduated at Wesleyan in 1909; Madame Sun Yatsen, Soong Ching-ling...
...young to enter college, Mei-ling was allowed to make her home in the college dormitory. Her name appears in the matriculation book with her sisters' names in 1908: "Mei-ling Soong, Shanghai, China, aged 10." She was privately tutored by a member of the faculty, Miss Margie Burks. During the next four years she spent most of her time under the tutelage of Miss Burks. One year she was at school at Demorest, Ga., in a junior college. In 1912-13 she was regularly enrolled as a freshman at Wesleyan College, and successfully completed the work of this...
...following year, both older sisters having returned to China, Mei-ling went to Wellesley. One of her brothers was studying at Harvard at the time, and the family wished her to be nearer...