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

Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady is a book written by Laura Tyson Li, a correspondent at Financial Times, also a reporter a South China Morning Post, a biography of Soong Mei-ling, wife of modern China wartime leader Chiang Kai-shek.[1]

Description

Laura Tyson Li called Soong Mei-ling "one of the most controversial and fascinating woman of the 20th century", who was, beside the wife of China's wartime leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, also his "chief adviser, interpreter, and propagandist". Engaged in a lifelong crusade against the spread of communism in China, with her own sister pitched against her at the opposite end of the political spectrum, because Soong Ching-ling, widow of China's founding father Sun Yet-Sen, had firmly believed that only communism would make China a strong nation.

Having spent years of research on previously classified CIA and diplomatic files, Tyson Li presents "the story of an extraordinary woman who has become a symbol of America's long, vexed love affair with China and China's own struggle to define itself as a world power." [2]

Publisher

The book was published by Atlantic Monthly Press on August 31, 2006, with ISBN 0-87113-933-2.

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References
  1. https://www.amazon.com/review/R3LTTSNVFZ2U0L/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm Customer Review
  2. http://www.shelfari.com/books/285111/Madame-Chiang-Kai-shek-Chinas-Eternal-First-Lady Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady (2006) By Laura Tyson Li
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