Excerpt from Legenda, 1938 Mei-ling was born of an already famous and energetic family; a family which busied itself in the support of Dr. Sun Yat - sen, the founder of the great Chinese Republic. Mei-ling was destined to be come another influential member of that family to merge her fate with that of her native land. In 1913, Mei - ling entered Wellesley College, where she was to spend four years as an undergraduate. She was a vivid member of the college community. Sometimes gay, sometimes sober. She was an inquisitive student, always seeking for the answer to some problem. When she graduated, it was as a Durant Scholar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.