Yao Yecheng

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Yao Yecheng (姚冶誠, 26 August 1887 – 7 September 1967), along with Chen Jieru (also known as "Jennie"), was among the two concubines of Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek, during the time when Chiang was also in an arranged marriage to Mao Fumei. In 1921, Chiang married Jennie. In 1927, Chiang divorced Mao and exiled Jennie—denying any association with the latter. In the same year, Chiang also dropped Yao and married Soong Mei-ling. Yao was a sing-song girl whom Chiang "took as his concubine" though at the time she "belonged to an elderly man who became jealous of her relationship" with Chiang. Once as she was serving bubbling-hot soup at a meal with both Chiang and the elderly patron present, the elder seized the bowl and emptied it onto her head while chiding her about the contacts with Chiang—an assault in which "the boiling liquid disfigured her, and ruined her career of entertaining men in teahouses." Yao lived with Chiang for a time at a villa at 99 Daichengqiao Road in Suzhou. The spacious...

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