Kung Ling-i (; September 19, 1915 – August 22, 2008), born in
Taigu County
Taigu () is a district of Shanxi province, China under the administration of Jinzhong City. It is administratively into three town-level entities ( Mingxing 明星镇, Hucun 胡村镇, and Fancun 范村镇), and six township-level entities ( Ho ...
,
Shanxi
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, was the eldest daughter of
Kung Hsiang-hsi
Kung Hsiang-hsi (; 11 September 1880 – 16 August 1967), often known as Dr. H. H. Kung, also known as Dr. Chauncey Kung, was a Chinese banker and politician. He married Soong Ai-ling, the eldest of the three Soong sisters; the other two marrie ...
and
Soong Ai-ling
Soong Ai-ling (; July 15, 1889 – October 20, 1973), legally Soong E-ling or Eling Soong, Christian name Nancy, was a Chinese businesswoman, the eldest of the Soong sisters and the wife of H. H. Kung (Kung Hsiang-Hsi), who was the richest man ...
.
Life
Kung Ling-I was born in
Taigu,
Shanxi Province
Shanxi; formerly romanised as Shansi is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong. Its one-character abbreviation is ( ...
on September 19, 1915. Kong Ling-i's nickname was "Baby", and her English name was Rosamonde Ling E Kung Hwang. She shared this name with her second aunt
Soong Ching Ling
Soong Ch'ing-ling (27 January 1893 – 29 May 1981), Christian name Rosamonde or Rosamond, was a Chinese political figure. She was the wife of Sun Yat-sen, therefore known by Madame Sun Yat-sen and the "''Father of the Nation, Mother of Mode ...
.
In 1928, 13-year-old Kong Ling-i went to Nanjing Jinling Girls' High School to study, and lived in the official residence of her uncle
Chiang Kai-shek. At the end of the civil war, she moved to
New York
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* ...
with her parents.
In 1943, Kung Ling-i went to the United States in the name of studying abroad, and announced her marriage to Chen Jien in the United States. They eventually broke their engagement.
On August 22, 2008,
Kong Ling-i died at the age of 93 at the Fifth Avenue apartment in
Manhattan
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, New York, USA. On August 26, the funeral ceremony was held in Manhattan, New York, where she was buried in New York state.
References
1915 births
2008 deaths
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Family of Chiang Kai-shek
People from Jinzhong
Descendants of Confucius
External Links
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