First sister marries a banker and becomes immensely rich.
Second sister elopes with a middle-aged revolutionary.
You can imagine the publisher reaching for his cheque-book already. Well, she married Chiang Kai-shek. Sterling Seagrave's book tells the story of this remarkable family. Charlie Soong, the patriarch. was one of China's first westernised millionaires. He put his money behind Sun Yat-sen's dream of a modernising revolution by and for the Chinese people.