Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
From: liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu)
Subject: Re: 100th birthday of Madam Sun
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 28 Jan 93 16:41:52 GMT

In article <108578@bu.edu> lix@thames.bu.edu (Xiaowen Li) writes:
>In article <93Jan27.173655est.137@orasis.vis.toronto.edu> liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu) writes:
>>In article <108538@bu.edu> lix@crsa.bu.edu (Xiaowen Li) writes:
>>>(deleted)
>>huh????
>>
>>did i say that?  
>>out of the 3 sisters, 1 loves money(married Kong3 Xiang2 Xi1 the 
>>finiance minister)
>>1 loves power(married  Jiang3 Jie4 Shi2 after it became clear the
>>general is top men in KMT and china and need to present himself
>>to the world he's different than the rest)
>>
>>now Madam Sun was among not those two, was she?  
>>
>>now what does Madam Sun loves?  
>
>So, it is Madam Sun who loves the country? Thank two other netters
>who sent me email to explain this for me. Thanks.
>
>However, in your original article, I don't think a reader can understand
>what you are talking about who loves what if they don't know already --
>agree? So you original article takes what you know as granted. But that
>is questionable. For example, you believe AiLing loves money, because she
>married Kong3 Xiang2 Xi1. That is wrong.
>
[......]
okay, okay, so it's an overstatement.  

>
>QinLiang then rashed to Japan to take over the duty of both secretary and
>fiancee.
>
>So my suggestion is that AiLing was the only power-oriented one in the
>Beauty-three, and both QinLing and Ailing were her victims in power struggle
>and bargains.
>
>Nevertheless, both Qinling and Meiling contributed to China significantly.
>The people from mainland heard a lot of dirt water poured on Meiling, but
>I failed see any evidence. And her contribution in the WWII as an excellent
>diplomat for gaining international support to China can't be denied.
>
well, CCP always wanted to pour dirt on MeiLing which is true, but
herself should share some of the blames.  She did contribute a lot
to China but She also does enjoy politics and power till this day,
remember when Jiang JinGuo died a couple of years ago and she 
still wanted do some internal politicking in KMT, trying to push
Jiang WeiGuo toward the Party President post?  Quite disgraceful 
for a 90+ years old.

I guess during the early years it's part of her job to do public
relations for Jiang JieShi and his government, especially in lobbying
the US government.  And inevitably she mixed business with pleasure.
she organized the chinese airforce and later have a lot of influence
on the flying tigers.  I remember reading somewhere the American volunteers 
in the flying tigers during the darkest days of WWII said that they were flying 
precious fuels and ammuniation over the "Hump" from India to China, 
and it was extremely dangerous.  Once the pilots discovers that half 
the plane was loaded with piano and funitures instead of war essential, 
when asked their boss replies that it's demanded by the first lady
of china.  The pilots didn't really give a hoot, later
over the hump they got thick ice on the wings and is losing attitude,
the pilots were pretty mad instead of throwing out other materials,
they dumped the steinway and othe expansive stuffs somethere on the 
tibetan Plateau, and delievered the war materials to KunMing.  ;->   
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