Background
She was born in Shanghai, Kiangsu, China in 1890. Madame Sun Yat-sen was 2nd daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Soong of Shanghai, an early co-revolutionary worker with Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
Revolutionary political reformer
She was born in Shanghai, Kiangsu, China in 1890. Madame Sun Yat-sen was 2nd daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Soong of Shanghai, an early co-revolutionary worker with Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
She received her early education at the McTyeire School for Girls at Shanghai and later proceeded to the United States, where she entered Wesleyan College for Women at Macon, Georgia and was graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree.
After graduation, she returned to China and in 1912, when the Republic was formed at Nanking, she served in the Nanking Provisional Government under Dr. Sun Yat-sen. When Yuan Shih-kai took action against Dr. Sun as a revolutionist, she in company with other members of Dr. Sun's personal staff fled to Japan where they remained for sometime as political refugees. In October 1915, she was married to Dr. Sun in Japan and since that time, became more and more prominent as a revolutionist and expounder of the Three Peoples' Principles, taking part in the various attempts to establish a government at Canton and accepting and bearing her share of the dangers and tribulations incidental to revolutionary politics and warfare.
After the death of Dr. Sun in Peking, China in 1925, she assumed a greater leadership in the work of revolution, serving on important governmental committees, interpreting the ideas of her late husband, establishing revolutionary schools, carrying on revolutionary propaganda, etc. Following the xporganization of the Kuomintang at the 2nd National Congress at Canton in 1926, she was elected member of the Central Executive Committee.
When the Nationalist Government was removed from Canton to Hankow in 1927, Mme. Sun Yat-sen participated in the organization of the Government in Wuhan. When the Nationalist Government at Hankow collapsed following the establishment of the Nanking Government by the right wing elements of the Kuomintang, she departed from China and went to Europe, spending most of her time in Moscow and Berlin, studying political conditions. She returned to China in 1929 to attend the funeral ceremonies of her late husband Dr. Sun at Nanking. After completion of the funeral services, she again went abroad and toured the various countries in Europe in 1930-1931. She was residing in Shanghai since 1932 and was a member of the C.E.C. since 1926, outspoken critic of Nanking leaders.