基本信息
本書以翔實的史料描繪了宋慶齡偉大、光輝的一生。展現了她那舉世欽仰的品德，光照人間的風彩，奮發進取的精神，坦蕩豁達的胸懷。披露了不少鮮為人知的資料，訂正了一些史實。本書還運用了文學的筆觸，形象生動、語言清麗，並將有關的歷史事件、時代背景交待清楚，把學術性、文學性、知識性熔於一爐。本書內容充實，風格清新，可讀性強、是一部具有特色的人物傳記。
內容提要
This is a biography of Soong Ching Ling (Mme. Sun Yatsen). 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 closely 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 eyewitnesses 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 Chinese, 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 causes -- 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 Chinese, 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.
宋慶齡簡介
宋慶齡傳（英）宋慶齡（1893～1981），偉大的愛國主義、民主主義、國際主義和共產主義戰士，舉世聞名的二十世紀的偉大女性。她青年時代追隨孫中山，獻身革命，在近七十年的革命生涯中，堅強不屈，矢志不移，英勇奮鬥，始終堅定地和中國人民、中國共產黨站在一起，為中國人民的解放事業，為婦女兒童的衛生保健和文化教育福利事業，為祖國統一以及保衛世界和平、促進人類的進步事業而殫精竭力，鞠躬盡瘁，做出了不可磨滅的貢獻，受到中國人民、海外華人華僑的景仰和愛戴，也贏得國際友人的讚譽和熱愛，並享有崇高的威望。
宋慶齡一生酷愛讀書。書，書，到處是書，證明了宋慶齡對知識的渴求。無論是參觀孫中山與宋慶齡在上海共同生活的故居，還是孫中山逝世後宋慶齡個人在北京和上海的故居，人們都會驚奇得看到這一事實。他們的藏書可以看出他們的現代化以及他們廣泛的興趣。
作者簡介
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 Defense 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 set 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 several times to write her biography after she died. Following retirement from the magazine, he spent several years in researching 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 subsequent 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.
圖書目錄
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ANOTEONTRANSCRIPTION
CHAPTERⅠStudentinAmerica(1908-13)
CHAPTERⅡAncestryandBackground
CHAPTERⅢReturnandMarriage(1913-15)
CHAPTERⅣSunYatsen
CHAPTERⅤToPreservetheRepublic: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)
CHAPTERⅩⅨ"CulturalRevolution"Storm(1966-76)
CHAPTERⅩⅩTwilightResurgence(1976-81)
NOTES
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