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1972 adoptive parent of chiang wei-kuo 1889 chiang kai-shek -lrb- m. 1913 -- 1927 -rrb- yao_zhicheng . jpg yao yecheng
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yao yecheng

yao yecheng -lrb- 姚冶誠 , 1889 -- 1972 -rrb- , along with chen jieru -lrb- 陳潔如 , `` jennie '' , 1906 -- 1971 -rrb- was among the two concubines of nationalist chinese leading figure chiang kai-shek -lrb- 蔣介石 , 1887 -- 1975 -rrb- during the time when chiang was also in an arranged marriage to mao fumei -lrb- 毛福梅 , 1882 -- 1939 -rrb- .
in 1921 , chiang married jennie .
in 1927 , chiang divorced mao fumei and exiled jennie -- denying any association with the latter .
in the busy year of 1927 , chiang also dropped yao and married soong may-ling -lrb- 宋美齡 , `` meiling '' , `` madame chiang '' , 1897 -- 2003 -rrb- .
yao was a sing-song girl whom chiang `` took as his concubine '' though at the time she `` belonged to an elderly man who became jealous of her relationship '' with chiang .
once as she was serving bubbling-hot soup at a meal with both chiang and the elderly patron present , the elder seized the bowl and emptied it onto her head while chiding her about the contacts with chiang -- an assault in which `` the boiling liquid disfigured her , and ruined her career of entertaining men in teahouses . ''
yao lived with chiang for a time at a villa at 99 daichengqiao road in suzhou .
the spacious villa , later renamed garden hotel suzhou , still stands and was used by the communist chinese government as an `` official state guest house for leaders of the party , the state and foreign countries '' and visiting celebrities .
it is now a hotel open to the general public .
chiang entrusted yao with the parenting of his adopted son chiang wei-kuo -lrb- 蔣緯國 , `` wego '' , 1916 -- 1997 -rrb- .
young `` wego '' grew up to study military tactics in nazi germany where he commanded a panzer unit before being recalled to china in 1938 where he was quickly promoted through ranks up to major general in the kuomintang 's national revolutionary army ; he later was a senior officer in the taiwanese republic of china armed forces -lrb- until 1964 when he was moved to figurehead status after the hukou incident -rrb- .
yao died in taipei in 1972 at age 83 .
