Gregory kung

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She is perhaps best known for her performances in Cecil B. Born in , Gregory Kung is 59 years old as of He is the son of Debra Paget and her former husband, Louis Kung. His parents were bankers and politicians H. Kung and businesswoman Soong Ai-ling.

Gregory kung

Kung , also known as Dr. Chauncey Kung, was a Chinese banker and politician in the early 20th century. Together with his brother-in-law, Soong Tse-ven , he was highly influential in determining the economic policies of the Kuomintang -led Nationalist government of the Republic of China in the s and s. Kung was born during the late Qing dynasty into a prosperous banking and trading family in Taigu County , Shanxi Province , where he attended a mission school in spite of his family's doubts. He then attended North China Union College in Tongzhou , near Beijing , where he took courses in mathematics, physics and chemistry, subjects which were not offered in traditional Chinese schools. Upon hearing of the Boxer attacks, he returned to Taigu, but his family prevented him from leaving the house. After the Taiyuan Massacre , which included members of the Oberlin Band , he carried letters from several of the murdered missionaries to Beijing by hiding them between the layers of his cloth shoes. Returning to Taigu, by using the powers of the Boxer Indemnity , he distributed relief to the families of those killed, buried the dead, and confiscated the estate of a family which had supported the Boxers. In the summer of , Luella Miner , a missionary and Oberlin graduate, arranged for Kung to travel to Oberlin for further study. Upon landing in San Francisco , however, because of the Chinese Exclusion Act , Kung and his companion were locked up for several weeks before the Chinese Consul-General posted bond, and they were then not allowed to go to Oberlin for another year.

Soong Ching-linganother sister, married Sun Yat-sen in and Gregory kung Kai-shek became Kung's brother-in-law in when he married Soong Mei-ling. Kung had a habit of smoking stogies.

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In their lifetime, and afterwards, the Soong sisters from Shanghai seemed like figures from a Chinese fairy tale. They came from a family of prosperous Methodist converts and, for almost years, one or other of them presided at or near the centre of power in China. The middle sister, Chingling, married Sun Yatsen, the founding Father of the Republic, transferring her allegiance after his death to the small group of bandits, led by Mao Zedong, who formed the nucleus of the Chinese Communist party. From the start, a formidable will underlay the fierce independence that made Eiling insist on leaving home alone at the age of five for a missionary boarding school in Shanghai. She completed her education in the US the first Chinese girl ever to do so , enrolling at a Methodist college in Georgia, where her two younger sisters followed her. After a decade or more away, the three returned home with the habits, assumptions and outlook of American college girls. Eiling married a businessman, H. Kung, whose commercial grasp turned out to be far less impressive than hers.

Gregory kung

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Chinese banker and politician — In the summer of , Luella Miner , a missionary and Oberlin graduate, arranged for Kung to travel to Oberlin for further study. Retrieved 14 January His wife was a sister of Soong Tse-ven. Edit page. Both were alumni of American universities. Australian Survivor 6. February 1, See the full list. Hector's Bunyip 7. Gangs of Oz 7. Heads of government of the Republic of China. Kung directed the creation of the fiat currency fabi , which replaced the silver standard in Frog Short.

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Kung became principal, and married Han Yu-mei, a fellow graduate of the North China Union College, who died of tuberculosis. Kung graduated from Oberlin in , then proceeded to take a master's degree in economics from Yale University. Kung joined the central executive committee of the KMT in Leave a Reply Cancel reply You must be logged in to post a comment. In , Kung married his second wife, Soong Ai-ling , the eldest of the Soong sisters. Kung had a habit of smoking stogies. Australia: Beyond TV Series. We got along well. Upload your demo reel. Recently viewed. In one of his first acts in government was to balance the national budget.