Hui lan koo autobiography of a flea

OEI HUI-LAN (1889-1992), known as Madame Wellington Koo, was a Chinese-Indonesian international socialite and style icon, and, from late 1926-1927, the First Lady of the Republic of China.

She was the wife of the pre-communist Chinese statesman Wellington Koo, as well as a daughter and the heiress of the colonial Indonesian tycoon Oei Tiong Ham, Majoor der Chinezen.

Hui-lan Koo: Madame Wellington Koo: An Autobiography

Born into an affluent Chinese family in Semarang, Central Java, then part of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Hui-lan moved to London with her mother and older sister in 1918 and entered high society. In 1921 she married Wellington Koo, a famous Chinese diplomat, and moved to Beijing in 1922, where her husband served as Foreign Minister and Finance Minister of the Republic of China.

He served twice as Acting Premier, and during his second term also acted as President of the Republic of China. In 1927 the couple set Hui-lan Koo an autobiography as told to Mary Van Rensselaer ... KUZ