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Widow of Sun Yat-sen's widow dies in China at 90
Soong Ching-ling, widow of revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, died in Beijing at 8:18 p.m. at age 90. China decreed a state funeral and praised her as a patriotic democratic internationalist and prominent state leader. Her illness was chronic leukemia, with a long life tied to both Communist and Nationalist histories.
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Peking
Soong Ching-ling
Sun Yat-sen
China
Communist Party
Xinhua
Sun
People’s Republic
West
Ching-ling
Mao Tse-tung
Mei-ling
Madam Chiang Kai-shek
Madam Chiang
Lattingtown
Long Island
N.Y
H.H. Kung
New York
T.V. Soong
San Francisco
Charles
Jones Soong
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
Kanghai
Wesleyan College For Women
Macon
Tokyo
Dr. Sun
Shanghai
Communists
Taiwan