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THE SOONG DYNASTY
by Seagrave, Sterling
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060153083
- ISBN 13
- 9780060153083
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1985. First Edition, 4th Printing . Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright, 1985, First Edition, 4th Printing. Black linen boards/Fine w/trace discoloration to lower edges. DJ/NF. Biographical history of the Soong (also "Sung") family, whose wealth & power dominated China, and American foreign policy towards Asia for the first half of the 20th century. It all began with Charlie Soong, a runaway raised in America under the protection of the Methodist church, and became a Bible publisher and godson of American industrialist Julian Carr. Behind the scenes is Big-eared Tu of the Green Gang. Charlie begat six children. Specular Ai-ling weds finance minister H.H. Kung; revolutionary Ai-ling marries Amercian educated, founding father Sun Yat-sen; Wellesly educated First Lady May-ling is wife to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek; Prime Minister T.V. Soong marries into a New York banking family; and, financier T.L. Soong marries into a family San Francisco Bankers. A web of intrigue and control, all the more fantastic because it all happened.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002924
- Title
- THE SOONG DYNASTY
- Author
- Seagrave, Sterling
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 4th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060153083
- ISBN 13
- 9780060153083
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Biography, History, China 1912-1949, The Soong Family, CHINA & UNITED STATES FOREIGN RELATIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography; Memoir;
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