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Soong Mei-ling and Christianity

Biographer Hannah Pakula has written an biography of Soong Mei-ling. The New York Times has an extract about her religious upbringing: One of the interests the Soong parents shared was music. Madame Soong had studied piano, and her husband had a... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Thu, Nov 05 2009

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