Talk:Charlie Soong

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Sorry, I'm new to this process. Hope I've done it right. I have edited the article as follows:

  It originally said that Charlie Soong came to Boston at age 12, however there is a letter dated June 25, 1881 (when he was 17 or 18 years) in the Manuscript and Rare Book Library at Emory University written to his father wherein he states that he left his brother in the East Indies three years earlier in 1878 (when he must have been 14 or 15).

I also eliminated the reference to H.H. Kung as "the richest man in China." Pre-WW2, that distinction was almost certainly borne by the Eu family of Hong Kong and Southern China - possessing a fortune valued at approximately $400 million Chinese silver dollars from a nationwide network of herb distribution wholesalers and retailers.SimbaUSA (talk) 05:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 05:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 11:23, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Name and origins[edit]

Soong's name was originally given in several forms, including dialect readings. This doesn't work for the article, where everything is spelled using standard Mandarin pronunciation. There was much confusion from a severely mangled website reference which I don't believe is necessary. The one website now given is sufficient, apparently it is a news account based on some sort of conference on Soong in Hainan.

The article generally uses Seagrave's Soong Dynasty; not ideal, but one of the few English sources on Soong, and for the early years not terribly off. I looked at the entry in Boorman's Biographical Dictionary of Republican China to try and straighten things out for some of the biographical details. The article had a confused account of Soong's 'adoption' that I fixed up using this. I will come back later and fix what I can. Rgr09 (talk) 12:40, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]