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Yao Yecheng (姚冶誠, 26 August 1887 – 1966), along with Chen Jieru (陳潔如, "Jennie", 1906–1971) was among the two concubines of Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石, 1887–1975) during the time when Chiang was also in an arranged marriage to Mao Fumei (毛福梅, 1882–1939).
While married to Mao, Chiang adopted two concubines (concubinage was still a common practice for well-to-do, non-Christian males in China): he took Yao Yecheng (姚冶誠, 1887–1966) as concubine in late 1912 and married Chen Jieru (1906–1971) in December 1921.
22 de jun. de 2022 · During their marriage, Chiang met Yao Yecheng, a sing-song girl who became one of his concubines and later took on raising Chiang Wei-kuo, Chiang's adopted son (Fenby 43). As for Mao, despite the unhappy marriage, she bore Chiang's only biological son, Chiang Ching-Kuo.
11 de jul. de 2010 · In 1913, he brought back from Shanghai Yao Yecheng, who had worked in a high-class brothel in the city. Mao accepted Yao as her husband's concubine. In 1919, Chiang adopted the three-year-old...
30 de oct. de 2019 · Chiang’s second noteworthy liaison was with Yao Yecheng. Although there are suggestions that they were “married”, such things are fluid in Chinese society and she would probably be better described as a secondary wife or a concubine.
19 de jun. de 2009 · What initially prompted Chiang to accept Christianity as his personal faith, around the time he married Song Meiling, was the admonishment of Ni Guizhen, Song's mother. Since that time, Song wielded great influence over him, which played a significant role in his final conversion.
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 ...
