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  1. Jack

    I think there is a big mistake in this lesson. Mao’s wife, Qing Jiang was not the sister of either Chiang Kai Shek’s wife Meiling Song or Sun Yi-Sen’s wife Qingling Song. But for the latter two, their wife were from same family. Please do not misunderstand it.
    Jack

  2. sara Lee

    I won’t complain for the mistake, it’s difficult for non-chinese speakers to tell the difference between those Chinese’s name,Qing Jiang, Qing ling, Mei ling….thus, people get confused.

  3. Hi Sara,

    Yeah it is hard to understand but I am still curious about what is going on. Can you clear it up by spelling the names in pinyin? What are the connections between the families of Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Dze-dung and Sun Yat-sen? Are there any connections?

    Of course from our point of view getting the language right is important but it would be nice to get the facts too

    cheers Mark

  4. nowiri

    Song Qingling is Sun Yat-sen ‘s wife.
    Song Meiling is Chiang Kai-shek ‘s wife.
    Song Meiling is Song Qingling ‘s sister.
    She is bigger than Song Qingling.

    Mao’s wife hadn’t any connections of those two sisters.

    • nowiri

      Song meiling is smaller than Song Qingling.

      • Hi Nowiri,

        In English, it’s not conventional to use words like “big” and “small” to represent the reputation of a person. The words you want to use are “high” and “low”.

        Eg: “As the daughter of the president, she enjoys high status among her peers.”

        With Kind Regards,
        Michael

  5. Hey Nowiri

    Thanks for clearing that up. People come from different cultures and they misunderstand each other. They speak different languages and they misunderstand each other. It is good to clear up this misunderstanding.

    Thanks a lot!

  6. Martha

    There is a mistake since Sun Yat Sen’s wife and Chiang Kai-Shek’ s wife were sisters no Mao’s wife at all. That’s all.

    Thanks for all, teachers and students from Belgium

  7. Su - OWDC

    Also, Mao wasn’t from Shanghai – he was from central China in Hunan

  8. I have to comment on Nowiri.. hehe that’s a real Chinese person. So I’d listen to what she has to say. I can tell by the way she/he is using Chinese expressions like “smaller” and “bigger” to represent the reputation of Meiling.

    FWI, in English, it’s not conventional to use words like big and small to represent the reputation of a person. The words you want to use are “high” and “low”.

    Eg: “As the daughter of the president, she enjoys high status among her peers.”

    Cheers!

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