Editing H. H. Kung (section)

==Personal life==
After the KMT retreated to [[Taiwan]] in 1949 at the end of the [[Chinese Civil War]], Kung moved to the United States. He died in 1967 in [[Locust Valley, New York|Locust Valley]], [[New York (state)|New York]].

Kung had a habit of smoking [[Cheroot|stogie]]s.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,747553,00.html |title=China: Swath to Success |magazine=Time |date=July 23, 1934}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine claimed that Kung smoked "15 [[Habanos S.A.|Havana cigar]]s" a day.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,746242,00.html |title=China: Soong Out |magazine=Time |date=November 6, 1933}}</ref> He was a Christian.<ref name="Time1">{{cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,929380,00.html |title=China: Christian Majority |magazine=Time |date=January 7, 1929}}</ref><ref name="Time2" />

Kung was a 75th generation descendant of [[Confucius]], as indicated by the [[generation name]] ''hsiang'' (祥; ''xiáng'').<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,732100,00.html |title=China: Potent Mrs. Chiang |magazine=Time |date=November 26, 1928}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/personoftheyear/archive/stories/1937.html |title=Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek |magazine=Time |date=January 3, 1938 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070329012515/http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/personoftheyear/archive/stories/1937.html |archive-date=March 29, 2007}}</ref> Kung's father was ({{zh|c=孔繁慈|p=Kǒng Fáncí|w=K'ung Fan-tsi|labels=no}}; 1861–1911), a 74th generation descendant of Confucius, indicated by the generation name ''fan'' (繁; ''fán'').

Kung first marriage was to Han Yu-mei in 1910, but she died in 1913. In 1914, Kung married his second wife, [[Soong Ai-ling]], the eldest of the [[Soong sisters]].<ref>Iyler 1</ref> Kung and Soong had two sons and two daughters:<ref name="Lee2003">{{cite book|author=Lily Xiao Hong Lee|title=中國婦女傳記詞典: The Twentieth Century, 1912-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XOGdnCPJSOMC&pg=PA477|year=2003|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-0-7656-0798-0|pages=477–}}</ref>
* [[Kung Ling-i]] ([[w:zh:孔令儀|孔令儀]]; Kong Lingyi), daughter
* [[David Kung Ling-kan]] ([[w:zh:孔令侃|孔令侃]]; Kong Lingkan), son<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,763229,00.html |title=China: Kung Fu-tze Say |magazine=Time |date=February 26, 1940}}</ref>
* Kung Ling-chun ([[w:zh:孔令俊|孔令俊]]; Kong Lingjun),<ref name="Wakeman2003">{{cite book|author=Frederic E. Wakeman|title=Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYYYQYK6FAYC&pg=PA334|year=2003|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-92876-3|pages=334–}}</ref> daughter, also known as Kung Ling-wei (孔令偉)
* Kung Ling-chie ([[w:zh:孔令傑|孔令傑]]; Kong Lingjie), son. His son Gregory Kung (Kung Teh-chi) (Kong Deji) (孔德基) was born from his marriage to [[Debra Paget]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.chinanews.com/tw/lscq/news/2008/09-08/1375220.shtml|title = 孔祥熙长女孔令仪：豪门家族的最后贵族}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.barrons.com/articles/kung-auction-recalls-soong-sisters-legacy-1432888097|title=K'ung Auction Recalls Soong Sisters' Legacy}}</ref><ref name=i>{{cite news|last1=Bacon|first1=James|title=Debra Paget Weds Oilman, Nephew of Madame Chiang|newspaper=Independent |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2595390/independent/|agency=Independent|date=21 April 1962|page=11|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = 11 June 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref>

The children all have the generation name ''ling'' (令; ''lìng'') in their names to indicate that they are 76th generation descendants of Confucius.

The Kung family residential compound, a well-preserved example of mid-[[Qing dynasty]] architecture, is now a tourist attraction in [[Taigu County]], [[Shanxi]].