Zhang Xueliang's first wife Yu Fengzhi spent fifty years in America

Author: Dou Yingtai
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Publication Date: 2001-12-01
Features: This book, based on authentic first-hand materials, reveals for the first time the legendary life of Yuting Yu, Zhang Xueliang's first wife, in the United States over five decades: her struggles with cancer, the devastation of losing her beloved child, financial hardship, and the breakdown of her marriage to Zhang Xueliang. Despite suffering from terminal illness, being far from her loved ones, a language barrier, and the hardships of being adrift in a foreign land, this talented woman from the Northeast of China tenaciously fought against her fate and ultimately became a stock market expert and real estate elite that even the Americans had to take note of. Through Yu Fengzhi's nearly century-long life journey, many historical mysteries have been unraveled: the details of Zhang Xueliang's bond with Chiang Kai-shek, the real reasons behind Zhang Xueliang's long-term house arrest, the mysterious interactions between Yu Fengzhi and the Three Song Sisters, the struggles between Soong Chia-wen, Kong Xiangxi, Sun Yat-sen's son, and Chiang Kai-shek, and the life-and-death bond between Yu Fengzhi and Zhang Xueliang, among others—all of which are presented with surprising revelations in the book. At the same time, many little-known secrets of American domestic and foreign affairs from that time also shed light on the true nature of American society and history.