Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady
- ISBN-10
- 0802143229
- ISBN-13
- 9780802143228
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 557
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-09
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Author
- Laura Tyson Li
Description
A definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial female political figures traces the life of Soong Mayling, from her youth in one of China's most powerful families, to her status as wife, adviser, interpreter, and propagandist to Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, to her role as an international crusader against Communism. Reprint.
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- 2007-12-01
- 576 pages
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