Kai ling tang biography
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Chen Lu-Huei, Chen Te-Sheng and Chen Yi-Ling, “Who Are the Rising Stars in the 18th CCP National Congress? A Study of Political Potential of Central Committee Alternate Members,” Mainland China Studies, Vol. 55, No. 1 (March ), pp.
Chen Yi-Ling,” Political Representative, Governance Efficiency, and Urban Stability: Local Governance Strategies in Urban China,” Soochow Journal of Political Science, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Oct. ), pp
Keng Shu and Chen Yi-Ling. “After Developmental State and Post-Totalitarianism: China’s Fragmented States and Connected Societies.” Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Oct. ), pp.
Keng Shu, Chen Yi-Ling and Chen Lu-Huei. “The Political Consequences of Limited Reforms: How Political Mobilization Reshapes the Pattern of Participation of Chinese Citizens.” Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp.
Keng Shu and Chen Yi-Ling. “Communities Self-Governance and Prospects of Democracy in China: Modernization Theory
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Soong sisters
Powerful siblings in 20th century China
The Soong sisters[note 1], Soong Ai-ling, Soong Ching-ling, and Soong Mei-ling, were three prominent women in modern Chinese history. Of Hakka descent, with ancestral roots in Wenchang, Hainan, they were raised as Christians in Shanghai and educated in the United States. All three sisters married powerful men, respectively, from eldest to youngest, H. H. Kung, Sun Yat Sen, and Chiang Kai-shek. Along with their husbands, they became among China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.
Their father was American-educated Methodist minister Charlie Soong, who made a fortune in banking and printing. Their mother was Ni Kwei-tseng, also a Methodist who came from an Episcopalian family.[1][2] All three sisters attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, United States.[3] Mei-ling, however, left Wesleyan and eventually graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusett
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Tang dynasty
Imperial dynasty of China from to
For other uses, see Tang dynasty (disambiguation).
The Tang dynasty (,[6][tʰa&#;ŋ]; Chinese: 唐朝[a]), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from to , with an interregnum between and It was preceded bygd the Sui dynasty and followed bygd the fem Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Historians generally regard the Tang as a high point in kinesisk civilisation, and a golden age of cosmopolitan culture. Tang territory, acquired through the military campaigns of its early rulers, rivalled that of the denne dynasty.
The Li family founded the dynasty after taking advantage of a period of Sui decline and precipitating their sista collapse, in turn inaugurating a period of progress and stability in the first half of the dynasty's rule. The dynasty was formally interrupted during – when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne, proclaiming the Wu Zhou dynasty and becoming the only legitimate Chinese