Kung Hsiang-hsi, often known as Dr. H. H. Kung, also known as Dr. Chauncey Kung, was a Chinese banker and politician in the early 20th century. He married Soong Ai-ling, the eldest of the three Soong sisters; the other two married President Sun Yat-sen and President Chiang Kai-shek. Together with his brother-in-law, Soong Tse-ven, he was highly influential in determining the economic policies of the Kuomintang-led Nationalist government of the Republic of China in the 1930s and 1940s.
H. H. Kung
H. H. Kung autograph signature on a letter dated 13 September 1954
The Kung family residence in Taigu County, Shanxi Province
Kung traveled once again to Germany in 1937, attempting to enlist German aid against the Empire of Japan.
Soong Ai-ling, legally Soong E-ling or Eling Soong, was a Chinese businesswoman, the eldest of the Soong sisters and the wife of H. H. Kung, who was the richest man in the early 20th century Republic of China. The first character of her given name is written as 靄 in some texts. Her Christian name was Nancy.
Soong Ai-ling