宋庆龄传，英

基本信息

本书以翔实的史料描绘了宋庆龄伟大、光辉的一生。展现了她那举世钦仰的品德，光照人间的风彩，奋发进取的精神，坦荡豁达的胸怀。披露了不少鲜为人知的资料，订正了一些史实。本书还运用了文学的笔触，形象生动、语言清丽，并将有关的历史事件、时代背景交待清楚，把学术性、文学性、知识性熔于一炉。本书内容充实，风格清新，可读性强、是一部具有特色的人物传记。

内容提要

This is a biography of Soong Ching Ling (Mme. Sun Yatn). Widow of the historic revo-lutionary who led in the overthrow of the mil-lennial monarchy in 1911, she was much more.Surviving him through 56 years of perils and triumphs, associated cloly with major events and personalities domestic and foreign, she died in 1981 as Honorary President of the People's Republic of China. Truly a great woman of our century. To learn about her is to learn about the times which produced her.

The aim of this first extensive biography of Soong Ching Ling in English, writes the author,is to have the reader meet the subject. Wher-ever possible, the story is told in her own words,drawn from all available written material, in-cluding hundreds of personal letters, the testi-mony of participants and eyewitness and my own recollections over four decades.

Brought up in wealth, Soong Ching Ling joined the ranks of the plain and the poor. A patriotic Chine, she was also bi-cultural, and the English-language reader can experience di-rectly, not through translation, the ringing con- viction of her public writings and the warmth and wit of her personal correspondence.

Her combination of deep commitment and unusual personal qualities prompted Zhou Enlai to call her gem of China and Mao Zedong to describe her as a phoenix flown out of the Soong family nest. Other tributes came from many quarters, from her fellow students in her U.S. college days to her later acquaintances and associates in various caus -- Jawaharlal Neh-ru of lndia, novelist Romain Rolland of France, and many others -- including noted journalists like Edgar Snow and political-military figures like the U.S. General Vinegar Joe StilwelL Her friends were legion.

Soong Ching Ling can be said to be an epitome of a modern Chine, relevant not only to her time but to this generation and perhaps some to come. Since China is a quarter of mankind, this is important to everyone.

宋庆龄简介

宋庆龄传（英）宋庆龄（1893～1981），伟大的爱国主义、民主主义、国际主义和共产主义战士，举世闻名的二十世纪的伟大女性。她青年时代追随孙中山，献身革命，在近七十年的革命生涯中，坚强不屈，矢志不移，英勇奋斗，始终坚定地和中国人民、中国共产党站在一起，为中国人民的解放事业，为妇女儿童的卫生保健和文化教育福利事业，为祖国统一以及保卫世界和平、促进人类的进步事业而殚精竭力，鞠躬尽瘁，做出了不可磨灭的贡献，受到中国人民、海外华人华侨的景仰和爱戴，也赢得国际友人的赞誉和热爱，并享有崇高的威望。

宋庆龄一生酷爱读书。书，书，到处是书，证明了宋庆龄对知识的渴求。无论是参观孙中山与宋庆龄在上海共同生活的故居，还是孙中山逝世后宋庆龄个人在北京和上海的故居，人们都会惊奇得看到这一事实。他们的藏书可以看出他们的现代化以及他们广泛的兴趣。

作者简介

Israel Epstein, born in 1915 in Poland, was brought up in China and there began his jour-nalistic work, publishing also in the United States and other countries. His first association with Soong Ching Ling was in 1938-45 in the wartime China Defen League in Hong Kong and Chongqing (Chungking). In 1951 she invit-ed him and his wife, the late Elsie Fairfax-Cholmeley (1905-84), to return from the Unit-ed States, where they then lived, to help t up the magazine she founded in Beijing, China Reconstructs (now China Today) of which, at Soong Ching Ling's death in 1981, Epstein was editor-in-chief, having, in the meantime, be-come a citizen of the People's Republic.

From the late 1970s, she had asked him veral times to write her biography after she died. Following retirement from the magazine, he spent veral years in rearching and writ- ing this book which appeared on the centenary of Soong Ching Ling's birth.

Previous books by Epstein include The Peo-ple's War in China, London, Victor Gollancz,1939; The UnflnLshed Revolution in China, Bos-ton, Little Brown, 1947; From Opium War to Liberation, Beijing, New World Press, 1956 with subquent editions in 1964 and 1980 in Bei- jing and Hong Kong (by Joint Publishing Co.);and Tibet Transformed, Beijing, New World Press, 1983.

Concerning Soong Ching Ling, he has pub-lished a number of articles and lectured at symposia in the United States and Japan.

图书目录

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ANOTEONTRANSCRIPTION

CHAPTERⅠStudentinAmerica(1908-13)

CHAPTERⅡAncestryandBackground

CHAPTERⅢReturnandMarriage(1913-15)

CHAPTERⅣSunYatn

CHAPTERⅤToPrervetheRepublic:Shanghai-Guangzhou(1916-22)

CHAPTERⅥGuangzhouTransformation(1923-25)

CHAPTERⅦFromWidowtoSfandardBearer(1925-27)

CHAPTERⅧWuhanin1927,WatershedYear

CHAPTERⅨMoscow(1927-28)

CHAPTERⅩInBerlin

CHAPTERⅪABrief,StormyReturnHome(1929)

CHAPTERⅫOnceMoreinEurope(1929-31)

CHAPTERⅩⅢToSaveRevolutionaries,Shanghai(1931-34)

CHAPTERⅩⅣToRallyandSavetheNation,Shanghai(1935-37)

CHAPTERⅩⅤWarYearsinHongKong(1937-41)

CHAPTERⅩⅥWarYearsinChongqing(1941-45)

CHAPTERⅩⅦCrisisAfterVictory,Shanghai(1946-49)

CHAPTERⅩⅧBuildingtheNewChina(1949-66)

CHAPTERⅩⅨCulturalRevolutionStorm(1966-76)

CHAPTERⅩⅩTwilightResurgence(1976-81)

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