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Soong Tse-vung, more commonly romanized as Soong Tse-ven or Soong Tzu-wen (Chinese: 宋子文; pinyin: Sòng Zǐwén; 4 December 1894 – 25 April 1971), was a Chinese businessman, banker, and politician who served as Premier of the Republic of China in 1930 and between 1945 and 1947.
T.V. Soong (born Dec. 4, 1894, Shanghai, China—died April 24, 1971, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.) was a financier and official of the Chinese Nationalist government between 1927 and 1949, once reputed to have been the richest man in the world.
T. V. soong began his political career as Dr. sun yat-sen’s secretary, which would link him with nationalist China’s most powerful leader, Chiang Kai-shek. born into a wealthy family of shanghai Christians in December 1894, the son of Charles soong and a brother to the eminent soong sisters, T. V. soong obtained a b.A. in economics from ...
Apr 26, 1971 · The eldest son of the famous Shanghai family that includes Mrs. Sun Yat‐sen, Mrs. Chaing Kai‐shek and Mrs. H. H. Kung, Mr. Soong died at a dinner party being given by an old friend, Edward Eu ...
Mar 1, 2006 · T.V. Soong in Modern Chinese History. In April 2004, the Hoover Institution opened nineteen boxes of the restricted personal papers of T. V. Soong, a leading official in the nationalist government from the late 1920s to 1949, along with two thousand documents donated by the Soong family.
Jan 17, 2022 · Soong Tse-vung, more commonly romanized as Soong Tse-ven or Soong Tzu-wen (Chinese: 宋子文; pinyin: Sòng Zǐwén; 4 December 1894 – 25 April 1971) was a prominent businessman and politician in the early-20th-century Republic of China. His father was Charlie Soong and his siblings were the Soong sisters. His Christian name was Paul, but he ...
Mar 10, 2023 · This chapter looks at the two men, T. V. Soong and H. H. Kung, who dominated financial positions from 1928 until the collapse of the Nationalist regime on the mainland. Both had personal ties to Chiang through his wife Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Song Mei-ling).
