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Charlie Soong
(1863 - 1918)
Chinese businessman and missionary
Chinese businessman and missionary
Chinese businessman and missionary whose family played a pivotal role in modern Chinese politics.
Charlie Soong was born in 1863 in Hainan and studied theology in the United States.
After becoming a Methodist missionary, he returned to China and established successful printing and banking businesses.
His entrepreneurial ventures helped fund revolutionary activities against the Qing dynasty.
Soong's family rose to prominence: his daughters married key figures like Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek.
He leveraged both religious and commercial networks to influence China's modernization.
Soong's legacy endures through the Soong family's impact on 20th-century Chinese history.
1918
Charlie Soong