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So what with Chinese investors buying media like SCMP and Legendary Pictures, it's obvious that with such control Chinese can have humongous control over the world using propaganda. But alas, Chinese soft power sucks and can't compete with the explosions and tits and ass of any Michael Bay movie. What can China do?
The answer is clear: using its newfound clout, China should produce a billion-dollar budget high-profile all-English language biopic (no subs, box office poison) that will sweep all the Oscars while humbling the laowai with its sincerity and good intentions.
And the subject of this Chinese biopic can really only be one person. It can't be some man who was in power, because then people can use statistics and facts to discredit him. No, for our biopic we need a non-man who has never held office, but serves as a "nominal leader" to whom no Chinese can refute. We need a saint to which criticisms fall short, but to whom our faith resides.
A figure of grace, of humanity, of never-ending compassion: Soong Ching-ling
Who dat bitch?
Called "the mother of modern China", Soong Ching-ling has been there at every step of the founding of the PRC. Soong married the guy who liberated China from imperial rule. Soong was there in the trenches in the war against the Japanese, and she was there on National Day before it was named National Day on October 1, 1949. She's a venerated figure in the CCP who even served as a Vice Chairman to Mao Tse-tung at one point.
The Lowdown on how "Project Chinese Saint" will go down
The fact that the main character in this Chinese biopic is a woman goes a long way to establishing trust and sympathy with your audience, but you need a big name star to fill these shoes: Maggie Cheung. Yes, I know she's "retired" so she can work on her "singing career", but Maggie is essential to developing the right tone for the biopic: graceful, alluring, exotic, worthy of adoration and respect--basically, the whole sexy nun routine going on.
On the other hand, Gong Li's English is terrible, while Tang Wei is very happy in the Cuba Gooding Jr-phase of her career. Everyone else is too young and unable to be a box office draw in Hollywood. Nope, it has to be Maggie Cheung.
(There have been so few cinematic portrayals of Soong Ching-ling, but Maggie Cheung already has experience from playing her once before in The Soong Sisters.)
Then, with the gobs of money financing this, you have to bring in all Chinese talent to work on this: Zh
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I recently visited an exhibit on Soong Ching-ling in Beijing. There, the exhibit showed some artifacts of her time at Wesleyan. One was a small photo of a tennis group including Soong on a paper pamphlet with "Ku Klux" in large letters at the top. I didn't catch what else, if anything, was written on the pamphlet.
I couldn't figure out from the exhibit what was going on here. Was this some college club that happened to share a name with the Klan? Were these pamphlets produced post-1915 (after Soong had left Wesleyan) by Klan members upset at Chinese students? Or was something else going on?
Edit: this photo: http://sclf.cri.cn/mmsource/images/2008/07/11/soongwithfriend1.jpg also appeared in that exhibition. That makes me think Soong Ching-ling was associated with a club or something similar called "Ku Klux." Since this was presumably in 1911 or 1910, it can't have been the Klan--but why call it that?
If China is united under a Social Democratic Left Kuomintang under Soong Ch'ing-ling. What level of honor and adore will Soong Ch'ing-ling receive? Will she have a Cult of Personality on the level of Mao Zedong and Sun Yat-sen or will she just be considered a good leader of China?
As the title says; where is Madame Chiang Kai-shek?
I know that her husband got assassinated during the Northern Expedition and that the expedtion failed in february 1927 and in the original timeline the couple married in Shanghai on December 1, 1927, so I guess they didn't marry in Kaiserreich but she was always politically intreseted and active in her life, even her sister who married Sun Yat-Sen is a possible leader for Left-KMT.
So where is she in Kaiserreich?
As Nationalist China, if I have Soong Mei-Ling as a political adviser does that change how the Mission to the US focus works? She is mentioned in the focus text for it's effects by name so I'm curious.
Also, can you keep her if you change to democracy?
