In their lifetime, and afterwards, the Soong sisters from Shanghai seemed like figures from a Chinese fairy tale. There were three of them: ‘One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country.’
They came from a family of prosperous Methodist converts and, for almost 100 years, one or other of them presided at or near the centre of power in China.
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