Anna Quraisy Haq / MBTI L / 112400433

Soong ChingLing ()
Madame Sun Yat-sen
Leader of the Womens Department of the Kuomintang

Soong Ching-Ling was born in Shanghai on the 27th of January in 1893. For her
education, she travelled to to the United States. At US she began to seriously consider the
conditions of women in China especially on the issue of arranged marriage. Thats the first
reason I chose her for this assignment. Her efforts through the influences of Western
emancipation, Ching-Ling declared that the abolition of arranged marriages would further the
liberation of both women and men in China which expressed her ideals of Liberty and Equality.
In 1915 she married to Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a Chinese revolutionary, first president and
founding father of the Republic of China. The way she and her husband together struggle to
bring social and economic order to the chaos of post-Imperial China inspires me. She not only
became his wife but also a strong political colleague of his. Up until that time in the eyes of
society women were basically invisible. Her courageous to appear in public with her husband
makes other women want to show their faces in public and accompany their husbands to any
social gathering.
My second reason is because she is a great lady. Politically, Ching-Ling was a leading
force behind the reorganization of the Kuomintang as well as in the shift away from the western
powers towards Russia. Then in 1924 she was made head of the Womens Department of the
Party. She did really support revolution in China especially for women. She viewed that Chinese
Women's Liberation was an inseparable part of the Chinese revolution. Unfortunately in 1925 Dr.
Sun Yat-sen died. But it didnt make her stop. She became an influential political figure in China.
Soong Ching-Ling kept devoting the rest of her life to upholding her husband's ideals by
becoming the most passionate and prominent opponent of Chiang Kai-shek.

My third reason is how she could manage her time well. It can be seen at early in her
career she divided her time between working in the government and working on the affairs of
women and it had done right. She got some achievements during her life that really amazes me.
She was the founding of the Women's Political Training School in 1927 which is she gave
numerous talks on the importance of women joining the revolution as well as on the liberation of
women in China and she had found the China League for Civil Rights and China Defense
League and she created China Welfare Institute and found China Reconstructs magazine.
The leadership soul on her never subsided. She became the Vice-President of the Central
People's Government Council as well as the Honorary President of the All-China Women's
Federation. In the 1950s and 1960s she was very active in the official women's movement. Her
ideals, along with the creation of the All-China Women's Federation in 1949 helped to shape the
policies of China pertaining to women. She came to be known as "the Mother of China" by both
the main political parties, the Kuomintang and the Communists. How could be a woman can be
this great? Because she had faith in herself, kept giving efforts on what she did and she never
gave up on her ideals. Too bad at 1981 she died in Peking which was caused by Leukemia.