Originally rebuffed by her in the early-1920s, Chiang managed to ingratiate himself to some degree with Soong May-ling's mother by first divorcing his wife and concubines, and promising to eventually convert to Christianity.

The youngest and the last surviving of the three Soong sisters, she played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China and was the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Republic of China preceding her husband.

In 1931, Soong May-ling had a villa built for her on the east side of Nanjing.

According to recollections by publisher Gardner Cowles, Willkie's visit to China involved an episode where Soong May-ling seduced Willkie and took him to one of her hideaway apartments in Chungking.

After the defeat of her husband's government in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Madame Chiang followed her husband to Taiwan, while her sister Soong Ching-ling stayed on the mainland, siding with the communists.

In the 2000 Presidential Election on Taiwan, the Kuomintang produced a letter from her in which she purportedly supported the KMT candidate Lien Chan over independent candidate James Soong ( no relation ).

Soong died in her sleep in New York City, in her Manhattan apartment on October 23, 2003, at the age of about 105, thus having lived during three generations.

In the 1930s, Soong Ai-ling and her sister Mei-ling were the two richest women in China at the time.

His widow, Soong Ching-ling, sided with the Communists during the Chinese Civil War and served from 1949 to 1981 as Vice President ( or Vice Chairwoman ) of the People's Republic of China and as Honorary President shortly before her demise in 1981.

" He also made a veiled criticism of Soong May-ling ( with whom he was unrelated ), implying that she had returned to Taiwan after her stepson's death to try to reassume power.

Her Christian name was Rosamonde ( in her early years, her passport name was spelt as Chung-ling Soong, and in her Wesleyan College diploma, her name was Rosamonde Chung-ling Soong ).

Soong returned to China in June 1929 when Sun Yat-sen was moved from his temporary resting place in Beijing to a new memorial in Nanjing, but she left again three months later, and did not return until July 1931, when her mother died.

In the 2000 presidential election, independent candidate James Soong proposed a European Union-style relation with mainland China ( this was echoed by Hsu Hsin-liang in 2004 ) along with a non-aggression pact.

During the 2000 presidential election, Lee Teng-hui arranged for Lien Chan to be nominated as Kuomintang candidate for president rather than the more popular James Soong, who bolted from the party and formed his own People First Party after both he and Lien were defeated by Chen Shui-bian in the presidential elections.

In the 2000 presidential election itself, the split in Kuomintang votes between Soong and Lien led in part to the election of Chen Shui-bian.

The PFP was founded by James Soong and his supporters after his failed independent bid for the presidency in 2000.

To avoid a repeat of this effect, which led to the election of Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian to the presidency in 2000 by a low share of votes, Chairman Soong ran as vice-president on KMT Chairman Lien Chan's presidential ticket in the 2004 presidential election.

While analysts feared that a PFP run will split the Pan-Blue Coalition vote and hand a winnable election to the DPP ( as was the case in the 2000 Presidential election ), Soong has insisted that his campaign is a serious one and that he will complete his run .< ref > http :// www. atimes. com / atimes / China / MJ04Ad01. html </ reF > On election day, however, the Soong-Lin ticket underperformed and garnered a mere 2. 77 % of votes.

After losing the KMT presidential nomination to then-vice president Lien Chan, Soong ran as an independent in the 2000 Presidential elections.

In the final months leading to the 2000 elections, the KMT, then under Lee Teng-hui's leadership, sued Soong for theft, alleging that as party Secretary-General, he stole millions of Taiwan dollars in cash intended for the family of the late President Chiang Ching-kuo and hid the money in the Chunghsing Bills Finance Company.

Despite the personal rivalries between Lien, the KMT chairman after 2000, and Soong, the KMT and People First Party pledged to cooperate in future elections to prevent splitting the vote.

In the 2000 Presidential Election, Ma remained loyal to the KMT and supported its candidate, Lien Chan, over James Soong, who had bolted from the party and was running as an independent.

* Prof. Martha Cheung, Director of Centre for Translation, Chair Professor in Translation, renowned scholar in translation, recipient of the Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial Award in 2000 and 2004.

Chang ran as an independent vice-presidential candidate ( on the ticket of James Soong ) in the 2000 elections.

* In the 2000 presidential election in Taiwan, James Soong left Kuomintang ( KMT ) party and ran as an independent against KMT's candidate Lien Chan.

Soong Ching-ling obtained a mansion in Beijing in 1963 where she lived and worked for the rest of her life and received many dignitaries.

With Lore's revelation, Soong decides to rest before implanting the chip, leaving Data and Lore to talk.

Later, his mother Julianna appears in the episode " Inheritance " and reunites with Data, though the crew discovers she was an android built by Soong after the real Julianna's death, programmed to die after a long life.

Although the stated purpose was administrative efficiency, Soong and his supporters claim that it was actually intended to destroy James Soong's power base and eliminate him from political life, though it did not have this effect.

The life of Sun is portrayed in various films, mainly The Soong Sisters and Road to Dawn.

After his defeat in Taipei mayoral election on 9 December 2006, Soong announced that he would quit political life, including the chairmanship of the Party.

In 1894, Charlie Soong made the arguably most important connection in his life when he met Sun Yat-Sen at a Sunday service in a Methodist church in Shanghai.

In a pairing of great political significance, Chiang was Sun's brother-in-law: he had married Soong May-ling, the younger sister of Soong Ching-ling, Sun's widow, on December 1, 1927.

Soong and Chiang on the cover of TIME magazine, Oct 26, 1931

Later on, his " mother " is revealed also to be his positronic sister as the real Julianna Soong died and was replaced with an identical Soong Type android, the most advanced one that Dr. Soong was known to have built.

Pro-unification politicians such as James Soong, the former head of the Government Information Office who once oversaw the limitation of Taiwanese dialects, began speaking in Hoklo on semi-formal occasions.

He was apparently ready to march on Zhang, but Chiang's wife, Soong Meiling, and brother, T. V.

James Soong Chu-yu (; born March 16, 1942 ), is a politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan.

Soong gained his public fame when he addressed the nation following the Carter administration's decision to break ties with the ROC in order to switch diplomatic ties to the People's Republic of China on December 16, 1978 in which he gave a patriotic condemnation of the American position and a ringing defense of the ROC.

During the KMT's central standing committee on the day of Chiang's funeral, when the Palace Faction sought to delay Lee's accession to the party Chairmanship, Soong unexpectedly made an impassioned plea in favor of Lee, declaring that " Each day of delay is a day of disrespect to Ching-kuo.

Despite his Mainlander background, Soong proved to be a popular politician among all ethnic groups on Taiwan, in part because he was one of the first KMT politicians to attempt to use the Taiwanese language in political and formal occasions.

Soong tendered his resignation on December 31 of the same year, but Lee did not accept it.

On November 17, 2005, Soong was awarded NT $ 10 million in a defamation suit against former President Lee Teng-hui, who had alleged that Soong was playing mahjong while his supporters were protesting on the streets in April 2004.

After his defeat in Taipei Mayoral Election on the 9th of December, 2006, he won only 4 % of cast ballots, James Soong announced that he will retire from politics, which entailed giving up the chairmanship of his party, the PFP.

Following this claim, on February 15, 2007 Taipei District Court ruled Thursday that President Chen Shui-bian must pay James Soong NT $ 3 million ( US $ 91, 183 ) in damages and apologize in the top three newspapers for his allegation that Soong met secretly with China's State Council Taiwan Affairs Office Director Chen Yunlin in 2005.