![]() Even in exile, Ching-ling had a meeting with Stalin in the Kremlin. “They rose to high positions and travelled the world. ![]() “The sisters’ glamorous lives were a major attraction for me,” says Chang, who’s pretty glamorous herself with her elegant clothes and luxuriant black hair. Chang decided it was their story she needed to tell. Their lives were bound up with some of the 20th century’s most significant upheavals and they brushed shoulders with everyone from despots to film stars. ![]() She intended to write about Sun Yat-sen, a controversial figure who courted Lenin in his pursuit of power, but during her research Chang became fascinated by Sun’s wife Ching-ling and her sisters, May-ling and Ei-ling. ![]() In her new book, Chang calls the Cultural Revolution China’s “holocaust”. ![]()
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