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Powerful siblings in 20th century China

The Soong sisters^{[note 1]}, Soong Ai-ling, Soong Ching-ling, and Soong Mei-ling, were three prominent women in modern Chinese history.

Of Hakka descent, with ancestral roots in Wenchang, Hainan, they were raised as Christians in Shanghai and educated in the United States.

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All three sisters married powerful men, respectively, from eldest to youngest, H. H. Kung, Sun Yat Sen, and Chiang Kai-shek. Along with their husbands, they became among China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.

Their father was American-educated Methodist minister Charlie Soong, who made a fortune in banking and printing. Their mother was Ni Kwei-tseng, also a Methodist who came from an Episcopalian family.^[1][2] All three sisters attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, United States.^[3] Mei-ling, however, left Wesleyan and eventually graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusett