Sun Sui-ying

Sun Suiying (January 16, 1922 – March 24, 2025), female, ancestral home in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan, Guangdong (today’s Nanlang Town, Zhongshan City), was born in Shanghai, later lived in the United States and became an American citizen. She was the granddaughter of Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Republic of China, and the eldest daughter of Sun Ke.

She graduated from Wellesley College in the United States. In December 1952, her father Sun Ke traveled from Paris to the United States and temporarily lived in her home together with Chen Shuying, before moving a year later to Los Angeles, California.

In May 1981, Sun Suiying, along with her younger sister Sun Suihua and brother-in-law Zhang Jiagong, made a special trip from San Francisco to Beijing to visit the ailing Soong Ching-ling (Sun Yat-sen’s third wife, with whom she had no blood relation). After Soong Ching-ling’s death on May 28, they attended her funeral and accompanied the transport of her ashes back to Shanghai for burial.

In May 1987, Sun Suiying and her sister made donations to support the Zhongshan Memorial Middle School Foundation in Zhongshan City.

On October 10, 2001, to mark the 90th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, Sun Suiying joined her sister Sun Suihua, her grandnephew Sun Guoxiong, as well as descendants of Huang Xing, Feng Yuxiang, and other revolutionaries from China and abroad, at the Red House of the Wuchang Uprising Memorial in Wuhan for the commemoration.

On March 24, 2025, Sun Suiying passed away in the United States at the age of 103.