As Chiang Kai-shek's wife and closest comrade-in-arms, Soong Mei-ling's successes and failures in life were closely linked to Chiang, and even more so to the fate of China. She was born in a time of sorrow, before and after her birth, the Sino-Japanese War, the Eight-Power Allied Forces, warlordism, one after another ...... Soong's westernized thinking and behavior, and her Christian conservative democratic background influenced Chiang Kai-shek, who...