When it comes to the name Chen Jieru, I think many people will feel confused and do not know much about her deeds, indeed in china's modern history, her name can be said to be unremarkable, the only thing that people know may be from her previous husband, Chiang Kai-shek.
In Chiang Kai-shek's life, there were four wives in the open, and Chen Jieru was his third wife, and the life between the two was relatively smooth, until one thing broke Chen Jieru's peaceful life.
In 1927, a very sensational event occurred in Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling married, the scene at that time was extremely lively, celebrities from all walks of life came to the scene to celebrate, Chiang Kai-shek later relied on Soong Mei-ling's help to further expand his strength, and eventually became the supreme leader of the Kuomintang, of course, all this is an afterthought.
Soong Mei-ling is actually Chiang Kai-shek's fourth wife, before they officially married, Chiang Kai-shek's wife is still Chen Jieru, that is, our protagonist this time, but we all know that Chiang Kai-shek's ambitions are very huge, in order to be able to continue to strengthen his own power, he chose to retire his third wife and came together with Soong Mei-ling.
In fact, as a wife, Chen Jieru did not agree to divorce Chiang Kai-shek at the beginning, she thought that as a woman, divorcing the man without making any mistakes was a very humiliating thing, and the attitude towards divorce was very tough, and Zhang Jingjiang had to find Chen Jieru and persuade him to divorce Chiang Kai-shek, he knew that Chen Jieru was a woman who could take into account the overall situation, so he carefully explained the bends and turns to Chen Jieru, and chen Jieru finally agreed to divorce Chiang Kai-shek for chiang kai-shek's cause. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek also promised to bear all the expenses of Chen Jieru, and also tricked Chen Jieru into marrying between himself and Song Meiling just for the sake of profit, and when the right opportunity came, he would definitely remarry Chen Jieru, and also let Chen Jieru go to the United States to study himself. Chen Jieru was convinced of what her husband had said, and believed that Chiang Kai-shek would keep his promise to remarry her, and with such expectations, Chen Jieru embarked on the road to study in the United States.
When Chen Jieru had just set foot on the land of the United States, she received a thunderbolt of news for her, Chiang Kai-shek actually published a marriage statement with Soong Meiling in the press, and also explained that there was no marriage relationship between her and several ex-wives, which suddenly cleared the relationship between her and Chiang Kai-shek, which also made Chen Jieru suddenly realize that she had been coaxed by Chiang Kai-shek, at this time she regretted that she agreed to divorce so easily, but everything was too late, with a feeling of great sorrow. Chen Jieru began her academic career in the United States.
Chen Jieru did not live a decadent life during her time in the United States, but she achieved good results by relying on her own efforts, but the heavy study did not make her forget Chiang Kai-shek, but made her often fall into pain, in the days of studying abroad she wrote several letters to Chiang Kai-shek, but did not receive a reply, I don't know whether Chiang Kai-shek did not receive it, or felt that there was no need to reply to the letter, so the days passed little by little in Chen Jieru's waiting.
In 1933, when chen jieru finally returned to China, at this time Chiang Kai-shek seemed to have forgotten the promise of remarriage with her, and at this time Chen Jieru no longer insisted on being able to be with Chiang Kai-shek again, perhaps she had seen the true face of Chiang Kai-shek, or perhaps so many years of waiting had worn away her love for Chiang Kai-shek, but fortunately Chiang Kai-shek was still willing to bear Chen Jieru's life, and sent her to Shanghai, from time to time to give her living expenses to maintain her life, which also allowed Chen Jieru's life to continue. Later, with the victory of the War of Liberation, Chiang Kai-shek led Song Meiling and his men to flee to Taiwan, but he did not take Chen Jieru with him, so Chen Jieru has been living in Shanghai, and even adopted a daughter, and the two are also very happy to live on each other, and later Chen Jieru also became a CPPCC member in Shanghai's Luwan District, and his later life was colorful.
In her later years, Chen Jieru would think of Chiang Kai-shek from time to time, after all, the pain that this man brought to herself was too deeply impressed, so she wrote a book "Chen Jieru's Memories", and also used this book to threaten Chiang Kai-shek, asking him to take out a large amount of money to redeem the book, otherwise he would publish the book, Chiang Kai-shek also agreed, but with Chiang Kai-shek's death, the book was finally published.
In her later years, Chen Jieru's life was still relatively moist, and Chiang Ching-kuo bought a building for Chen Jieru in Shanghai, so that she could live a more moist life by renting a house until 1971, when Chen Jieru died in Hong Kong.