The Soong Dynasty
Sterling Seagrave
More fabulous than fiction--because the sinister and shameless
doings that Seagrave recounts, with kaleidoscopic historical detailing,
involve the celebrated, idolized-and-reviled Soongs. Founding father
Charlie Soong (1866-1918), thinks Seagrave--son of Burma doctor Gordon,
author of Bitter Rain--became an inspirational legend (thanks to 1920s
missionaries, Henry Luce, and Emily Hahn) without due note, by
historians, of his part in financing Sun Yat-sen's aborted 1911
Revolution. So Seagrave reconstructs--through intriguingly assembled
bits of evidence--the checkered American sojourn of the gregarious young
Chinese runaway, his Shanghai rise (via still-shadowy tong connections)
to wealth and prominence as ""that unusual commodity, an
American-trained Chinese preacher turned comprador."" Then there were
the daughters: eldest Ai-ling, plain and smart and ""iron-willed""--who
set off for American schooling at 13, later rejected the advances of the
much-older, unsteady Sun (""He was a dreamer. She was a realist"") and
captured instead homely merchant-prince H.H.Kung; beauteous, softer
second daughter Ching-ling--who returned from America when Sun was in
the ascendant and, to her father's horror, eloped with him; and
""vain,"" ""haughty,"" ""high-strung"" youngest daughter May-ling--who
would of course marry ""a young, ill-tempered bravo by the name of
Chiang Kai-shek."" Seagrave's snide-to-venomous portrayals would be the
book's undoing if he didn't also have vast chunks of history to impart
and myriad tales to tell--most especially about Comintern agent Borodin
and Chiang, eldest son T.V. Soong and Kuomintang finances, and the Luce
role in glorifying family-and-regime. ""American policy was thus based
upon the personalities of the Chiangs, the Soongs, and the Kungs, rather
than upon the events, the nation, or the people. It was a tribute to
the Soongs' extraordinary stagecraft."" (...) - [source: kirkusreviews]
doings that Seagrave recounts, with kaleidoscopic historical detailing,
involve the celebrated, idolized-and-reviled Soongs. Founding father
Charlie Soong (1866-1918), thinks Seagrave--son of Burma doctor Gordon,
author of Bitter Rain--became an inspirational legend (thanks to 1920s
missionaries, Henry Luce, and Emily Hahn) without due note, by
historians, of his part in financing Sun Yat-sen's aborted 1911
Revolution. So Seagrave reconstructs--through intriguingly assembled
bits of evidence--the checkered American sojourn of the gregarious young
Chinese runaway, his Shanghai rise (via still-shadowy tong connections)
to wealth and prominence as ""that unusual commodity, an
American-trained Chinese preacher turned comprador."" Then there were
the daughters: eldest Ai-ling, plain and smart and ""iron-willed""--who
set off for American schooling at 13, later rejected the advances of the
much-older, unsteady Sun (""He was a dreamer. She was a realist"") and
captured instead homely merchant-prince H.H.Kung; beauteous, softer
second daughter Ching-ling--who returned from America when Sun was in
the ascendant and, to her father's horror, eloped with him; and
""vain,"" ""haughty,"" ""high-strung"" youngest daughter May-ling--who
would of course marry ""a young, ill-tempered bravo by the name of
Chiang Kai-shek."" Seagrave's snide-to-venomous portrayals would be the
book's undoing if he didn't also have vast chunks of history to impart
and myriad tales to tell--most especially about Comintern agent Borodin
and Chiang, eldest son T.V. Soong and Kuomintang finances, and the Luce
role in glorifying family-and-regime. ""American policy was thus based
upon the personalities of the Chiangs, the Soongs, and the Kungs, rather
than upon the events, the nation, or the people. It was a tribute to
the Soongs' extraordinary stagecraft."" (...) - [source: kirkusreviews]
درجه (قاطیغوری(:
کال:
1983
خپرونه:
re-ed. 2016
خپرندویه اداره:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ژبه:
english
ISBN 10:
1541338499
ISBN 13:
9781541338494
فایل:
MOBI , 868 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 1983
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