![]() ![]() Dense rows of tall trees on both sides mesmerise and transport my mind back one hundred and fifty years earlier. Two kilometres before hitting the suburban town of Changsa, our car turns left into the long bitumen by-road to Charlie’s home. The “g” in “Soong” was added later.Ĭharlie Soong (Han Jiaozhun 韓教準), father of the famous Soong sisters “Charles Soon” was the anglicized version of his given name “Jiaozhun”, adopted after his conversion by Methodist missionaries in America, where he had gone at the age of twelve. The house is the birthplace of their father Han Jiao Zhun, better known as Charlie Soong. We are excited because we have read books about them. Returning to 203 Provincial Road, my wife and I head north for the ancestral home of the famous Soong sisters. Charlie Soong and his eminent Soong daughters ![]()
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