Mei-ling meaning
Soong family today.
Soong sisters
Song Meiling (b. 1897)
Leading member of the most influential Chinese family of the first half of the 20th century, and wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who was undoubtedly the most powerful woman of her time. Name variations: Soong or Sung May-ling, Mayling, or Mei-ling; Madame Chiang, Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang Kaishek; Mme.
Jiang Jieshi; Chiang Mei-ling. Pronunciation: Soong MAY-ling. Born on March 5, 1897, in Shanghai, China; youngest daughter of Charlie Jones Song (a business leader and philanthropist born Hon Chao-Shun or Jia-shu Song) and Ni Guizhen (Ni Kweitseng, daughter of a wealthy scholar family in Shanghai who believed in Christianity, also known as Song Guizhen); educated at Potwin's private school, Wesleyan College, and Wellesley College, Massachusetts; married Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975, the nationalist leader and ruler of China, 1927–49), on December 1, 1927.
(See also Song Sisters.)
Bearing a name that can best be translated as "Beautifu