Chen Jieru
Chen Jieru | |
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陳潔如 | |
Republic of China | |
Political party | Kuomintang |
Spouse | |
Children | Chiang Yao-kuang (adopted) |
Chen Jieru | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Chén Jiérú |
Wade–Giles | Ch'en2 Chieh2-ju2 |
Chen Jieru (Chinese: 陳潔如; 26 August 1906 – 21 January 1971), also romanized Ch'en Chieh-ju, was the second wife of Chiang Kai-shek. She was nicknamed Jennie.[1]
Chen's ancestral hometown was Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, but she was born in Shanghai. She wrote a memoir which Chiang successfully suppressed during his lifetime.[2][3]
It was finally published in 1993.[4] In the memoir, Chen details how she and Chiang Kai-shek met at the home of a mutual friend in 1918 and how he pursued her, finally convincing her to marry him on 5 December 1921 by stating that his arranged marriage with Mao Fumei was unhappy and celibate, and his liaison with Yao Yecheng was a social courtesy following her disfigurement.[4] The couple held their wedding at East Hotel in Shanghai.[5]
![Chen Jieru with daughter Chiang Yao-kuang on her lap, sitting in the grass at Whampoa Military Academy in 1926](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Chen_Jieru_with_daughter_Chiang_Yao-kuang_at_Whampoa_Military_Academy_in_1926.png)
Chiang promised Chen that he was marrying
Death
Chen died on 21 January 1971 in
The Kuomintang asked Jennie Chen for all copies of her diaries and memoirs, but in 1971 American author Ginny Connor took notes from Chen's memoirs. In 1993, Connor stated that she planned to write her own book based on the notes since Chiang Kai-shek's Secret Past, another memoir based on notes from Jennie Chen, had been published.[9]
Works
- Chiang Kai-shek's Secret Past - A memoir
References
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- ISBN 0692008454, 9780692008454. p. 199.
- ^ 《人物:红颜命薄--做了七年蒋介石夫人的陈洁如(图)》,摘自赵宏著《蒋介石家族的女人们》,news.sina.com.cn轉載。
- S2CID 154586250. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ^ ISBN 0-8133-1824-6. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
- ^ "The first lady hiding in the Republic of China hid many secrets of Jiang Jieshi". www.bestchinanews.com. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
- ISBN 9781875585083.
- ^ "Chen Jieru 1906—1971". Archived from the original on 20 November 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ "Commemoration of Patriot Chen Jieru". Archived from the original on 20 November 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ Forestier, Katherome (20 November 1993). < "Secretary saw that Jennie's truth was told". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 27 June 2021.