Soong Ching-ling: Sun Yat-sen’s Widow Was a Secret Communist Agent for Fifty Years

The Chinese Communist Party announced Soong Ching-ling‘s Party membership as a deathbed honor in 1981, framing it as a final tribute to a lifelong sympathizer. She had been a member for roughly fifty years. The Party concealed her actual status throughout her life because her public image, as the widow of Sun Yat-sen, the founding []