Jiang Ying (simplified Chinese: 蒋英; traditional Chinese: 蔣英; pinyin: Jiǎng Yīng; born 1919 in Haining, Zhejiang), is a famous opera singer and music educator in China.
Jiang has half Chinese descent with half Japanese. She is the third daughter of Jiang Baili, a leading military strategist of Chiang Kai-shek, and his Japanese wife, Satô Yato (Japanese: 佐藤屋子). Jiang is also a cousin of famous novelist Jin Yong who also came from Haining of Zhejiang.
In 1945 in Shanghai Jiang married the famous rocket scientist and engineer Tsien Hsue-shen, who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the United States and later led space program of P.R.China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Ying_(musician)
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