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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady

Laura Tyson Li
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The first biography of one of the most controversial and fascinating women of the twentieth century.

Beautiful, brilliant, and captivating, Madame Chiang Kai-shek seized unprecedented power during China's long and violent civil war. She passionately argued against Chinese Communism in the international arena and influenced decades of Sino-American relations and modern Chinese history. Raised in one of China's most powerful families and educated at Wellesley College, Soong Mayling went on to become wife, chief adviser, interpreter, and propagandist to Nationalist leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. She sparred with international leaders like Churchill and Roosevelt, and impressed Westerners and Chinese alike with her acumen, charm, and glamour. But she was also decried as a manipulative Dragon Lady," and despised for living in American-style splendor while Chinese citizens suffered under her husband's brutal oppression. The result of years of extensive research in the United States and abroad, and written with access to previously classified CIA and diplomatic files, Madame Chiang Kai-shek objectively evaluates one of the most powerful and fascinating women of the twentieth century.

"Li brilliantly analyzes a fearless and profoundly conflicted woman of extraordinary force." --Booklist
Pages
576
Format
ebook
Release
December 01, 2007
ISBN 13
9780802198730

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady

Laura Tyson Li
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
The first biography of one of the most controversial and fascinating women of the twentieth century.

Beautiful, brilliant, and captivating, Madame Chiang Kai-shek seized unprecedented power during China's long and violent civil war. She passionately argued against Chinese Communism in the international arena and influenced decades of Sino-American relations and modern Chinese history. Raised in one of China's most powerful families and educated at Wellesley College, Soong Mayling went on to become wife, chief adviser, interpreter, and propagandist to Nationalist leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. She sparred with international leaders like Churchill and Roosevelt, and impressed Westerners and Chinese alike with her acumen, charm, and glamour. But she was also decried as a manipulative Dragon Lady," and despised for living in American-style splendor while Chinese citizens suffered under her husband's brutal oppression. The result of years of extensive research in the United States and abroad, and written with access to previously classified CIA and diplomatic files, Madame Chiang Kai-shek objectively evaluates one of the most powerful and fascinating women of the twentieth century.

"Li brilliantly analyzes a fearless and profoundly conflicted woman of extraordinary force." --Booklist
Pages
576
Format
ebook
Release
December 01, 2007
ISBN 13
9780802198730

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