MIA: Soong Ch'ing-ling
Soong was the first non-royal woman to officially become head of state of China, acting as Co-Chairman of the Republic from 1968 until 1972. She again became head of state as President of China, in 1981, briefly before her death. From 1948 onward, Soong was director of the China Welfare Fund, later named the China Welfare Institute, which –since 1952– published the monthly China Reconstructs.
Documents
1952: Welfare Work and World Peace 1954: Friendship of the Peoples and Peace 1958: Oppose the Military Provocations of U.S. Imperialism 1959: China's Liberation - Sino-Soviet Friendship - Man's Great Leap into the Future 1966: Sixteen Years of Liberation 1972: The Beginning of a New Era 1973: Ho Hsiang-ning — A Staunch Revolutionary 1975: Confucianism and Modern China 1976: A Great New Movement 1978: The China Welfare Institute: Forty Years in the People's Service 1979: China's Women in Our New Long March 1981: In Equality, For Peace: Speech upon receiving Honorary Doctorate from the University of Victoria
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