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TIL about Soong Mei-Ling, the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen and the wife of Chiang Kai-shek. Her life traversed three centuries, and she lived through pretty much all the forms of government that China has tried - emperor, republic, communism, dictatorship.

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