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Further summary: "Who were the Soongs? They were descendants of a Chinese runaway who grew up in America under the protection of the Methodist Church in the latter part of the nineteenth century and took the name of Charlie Soong. When Soong returned to China, he made a fortune printing and selling Western Bibles, and secretly backed the republican revolution of Sun Yat-sen against the Manchu dynasty. Of his six children one daughter, Ching-ling, married Sun Yat-sen and later supported the Chinese Communists against the Nationalists until her death in 1981. But all the other Soongs cast their lot with Chiang Kai-shek. One, May-ling, married the Generalissimo and became the powerful Madame Chiang; Ai-ling married H.H. Kung, a lineal descendant of Confucius and the principal banker of Nationalist China; and the eldest son, Harvard-educated T.V. Soong, became the economic wizard of Chiang's rise to power and at various times served Chiang as economic minister, foreign minister, and premier."